John Edwards’ Poverty Lesson, When You Get Caught, Raise Your Prices

According to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times, John Edwards has decided to reemerge from his seclusion and go back on the public speaking circuit.  He also decided to raise his speaking rates to $65,000, up from the more previous $55,000.   That’s a lot of money to talk about poverty.   Or maybe the cost of maintaining his own household and that of paramour, Rielle Hunter, is more than he anticipated.   So much hush money and so little time.

I have always been suspicious of Aw Shucks, Self-Effacing people who in every obvious endeavor show nothing but ambition bordering on megalomania.   I mean, how serious can you be about the modesty thing when you want to make a few hundred million and run for President of the United States.   In John Edward’s case, we not only have all the self effacing play acting, we have it out of slick goober boy, the crusader against poverty with the $1,250 haircut.   Must cost a lot to look the part, so people will believe you are really serious about poverty.   In Edwards case, there are two Americas.  Supercuts and his $1,250 newscaster’s special.

Edwards looks bad in his jeans.  I am suspicious of guys who never look right in jeans but persist on wearing them to look hip or young or like one of the people they are trying to win over.   With more than a few,  jeans just don’t become them.  I don’t know if it’s the cut, their bellies, hips and behinds, or if the belt looks wrong with the shirt.  Something.  Always something looks askew.

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But most of all, when Edwards calls for greater accountability and swears he is a man of family values, etc., and all the rest.  When asked during the debates what his faults are.  Does he answer honestly?  Does he tell the world he likes to fool around on the side and there is just something about Rielle Hunter that has so lassoed his stem cells he had a  baby with her?   Naw.   He tells during the debates that this greatest fault is his loving America too darn much.  Well golly.

Then when he is accused of the affair, he denies it.  He pulls a Larry Craig on us.   He then emerges from his inclusion goes back on the stump.   He is ready again to give his all about poverty.  He is ready to get paid for telling us that poverty, indeed, is bad for us.   He is ready to confess, I suppose, about his misdeeds and lack of judgement.   He is ready.   Are we?  Or will we just watch the the rerun on Jerry Springer?

Author: Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic behavior in the late twentieth century. He has recently published The Cuban Quarter, The Blood Orange, and The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He is the author of The Constant Travellers. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.