Edwards Comes Clean: Jeff Weiss

It is very hard to take John Edwards' apology seriously when it comes two years after his failed presidential campaign and two weeks before Andrew Young's tell-all book is released. Timing is clearly not one of John Edwards' strong suits. The fact that Edwards flew to Haiti the day his apology statement was released makes him look all the more self-serving and insincere.

If it is true that Edwards used campaign funds to keep his mistress quiet and that he asked his aide Andrew Young to lie about being the baby's father, Edwards may go down in history as one of the worst presidential candidates in recent memory. I don't think he ever stood a chance at getting the Democratic nomination, but he may have been a potential vice presidential candidate (and if Kerry had won in 2004, he would have been the Vice President during this scandal).

I know that you can't judge a person's job performance based on their morality. After all, Bill Clinton cheated on his wife yet he led our country into one of the most prosperous economic times in history, along with not only a balanced budget but an historic surplus. On the other hand, George W. Bush professed to being an upstanding Christian and he will long be remembered as a resounding failure as a president, leaving us with a record unemployment, the largest global financial crisis since the Great Depression, and two wars that had no exit strategy. So, I guess it's possible Edwards may have been a decent president.

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