Man, I just LOVE political sanctimony. And the kind we get from Democrats here in the US borders on acrobatics. I don't particularly care that John Edwards had an affair and fathered a child out of wedlock ... but I get a huge kick out this clip of him going out of his way to explain that (counter to what we might believe) his family is not to blame for his affair:

Boy, I'm glad he cleared THAT up. Because ever since I heard that Edwards had a mistress I've been blaming his family, specifically his eight-year-old son Jack. Rotten kid. He DROVE his father into that affair!

Gosh golly gee wiz, it's sooooo brave and selfless for Edwards to take the blame for his own extramarital affair. I mean, who would have expected accountability from a trial lawyer?

I hope you'll excuse me for a moment; I have a giant wad of phlegm-like SARCASM stuck in my throat. HHHMMMMGGGHHHGGGHH! There, all better.

Edwards is downright Clintonian in that clip. He comes off like a cross between Bill Clinton on a denial binge and Tom Cruise on a Scientology rant. Johnny Lover-Boy is so full of himself it's almost artistic. Like an expressive dance or some kind of performance art. Man, the air must be pretty thin up there on Planet Edwards.

The following is from Mary McNamara, LA Times blogger:

(Edwards) got a little slippery when asked about the photo the Enquirer had printed, which they claim is Edwards holding Hunter's baby daughter. The picture is blurry and Edwards says he has no idea who it is. Fair enough, but when Woodruff asked him if he remembered holding Hunter's baby, his answer was just plain squirrelly.

"You asked me about that photograph. I don't know anything about that photograph," he said, as if taking his cues from the Watergate hearings. "I don't know who that baby is.... I was not at this meeting holding a child for my photograph to be taken, I can tell you that."

That's awesome. That's just AWESOME! I wish I could have found a clip of that part of the interview. Can you imagine him saying that? With a straight face? That had to be hilarious.

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