Imagine if John Edwards had gotten the democratic nomination. Imagine if he had been on Obama’s short list for the V.P. slot. You’ve gotta be pretty ballsy to run for president knowing the salacious secrets you hold within. This didn’t happen many years ago. It happened in 2006. The party would have been decimated had this come out and he was in the running — hypocrites that we are, we would have buried the man.

Marital infidelity is about as common as wedded bliss is uncommon. Everybody’s got some dirt on them. Only Obama has to appear to be as clean as a whistle. Because if he gets so much as a hangnail, he will be written off by a bunch of “I told you so’s” and “Are you really surprised?”

And how many people do not actually believe that Mccain has had a dalliance or two? If the Democrats were smart, they would get some of their undercover henchmen to dig further into that whole Vicki Iseman situation. The only problem is Mccain could be caught in a hotel room with a dead prostitute and nobody but Michael Corleone there to help him and he would still be virtually tied with Obama. This country is on the verge of completely upending centuries of tradition, and as much as an illicit affair would rankle his conservative constituents, the binds of tradition are much harder to shake free than those loose strands of morality.

But I honestly feel that this whole thing reflects negatively on the man and not the party. If anything, it makes women even more sympathetic to Hillary Clinton, and maybe redirects their ire from Obama to Edwards. I could be wrong. I’m just glad that Edwards was nowhere near any official level of importance to the Obama campaign. Frankly, I like the guy. He did a crummy thing. But we all do from time to time. I’m just glad he’s the only one going up shit creek without a paddle.

sidenote:
If the kid isn’t yours and you don’t love her, why are you hanging out in a hotel room with the woman?