I know the story all too well. A underemployed photographer, a close friend too dedicated to friendship, a wife with a successful career both as a mother and attorney and a couple in too much pain over losses they suffered in life's process.
But, far more than that, John Edwards is a rather brilliant man with a great deal of potential and a message that dedicated itself to ending poverty and the 'increasing divide of inequality' in America.
"There are two Americas."
How dare a Senator take inequality to the forefront of a Presidential election? How dare he, indeed.
This trial doesn't become more ludicrous when today the USA is more divided than ever by inequality and we are witnessing the purchase of a GOP nominee for President. Silencing and defaming a former Democratic Senator from North Carolina has never been more important.
John Edwards has had a very turbulent personal life with loss being at its core. It was no surprise he would seek to bring justice to those aggrieved by their own losses in becoming an attorney for the inequality of liability from injury.
I hope this trial brings to focus the extent his life was dominated by service to others and a sincere lack of self through most of his life.
John Edwards Jury Seated for Trial Over Payments for Mistress (click here)
By Sophia Pearson and John Peragine on April 23, 2012
...Edwards, who has maintained his innocence, argues that the funds in question weren’t campaign donations and came from his friendships with a 101-year-old multimillionaire heiress, Rachel Mellon, and Fred Baron, a now-deceased trial attorney....It is not unusual to have intense friendships in the culture of North Carolina. Andrew Young and his devotion to see Ms. Hunter's pregnancy to term for the sake of the child is somewhat typical. Seriously, for as uncertain as it was, Andrew Young would shoulder the responsibility. The child was more than likely the focus of both Young and Ms. Mellon. It seems very obvious to me. Two people intensely involved with a man that reflected their values would find a way to smooth over a rare and strange affair for Edwards.
