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John Edwards, Worst Person in the World (Part II)

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When his corruption trial ended yesterday without a conviction on any of six counts John Edwards was all about John Edwards again, looking for love in all the wrong places ... again. Redemption comes to those who wait, not those who ask. OJ had it right: After he was acquitted of double murder he let his lawyers announce a fund to find the real killers and lived in the shade for as long as ego would allow . Edwards thought instead that  the Anthony Weiner gambit was the way to go. This is neither colossal misjudgment nor uncharacteristic hubris from a guy who thought that going to Haiti after that country's devastating earthquake was a good idea. Like many others I thought the prosecution was a bad thing, probably political — but that's about process and the next prosecution and the rule of law, not about the " awful, awful " things that this once rising star did while he was on the ascent. There isn't much more to say, so, from the archives, here'