Sunday, January 10, 2010
There's something eminently satisfying about having all your worst beliefs about a person confirme. It's a somewhat guilty satisfaction -- we'd all like to win on the substance without anyone being hurt-- but if you were always one of those people who looked on John Edwards as a complete phony (and now wife Elizabeth is added to the mix), then you can't help but read this entire thing with prurient satisfaction. The big house, the leach-like existence of a wealthy liability lawyer lecturing the rest of us on ethics...but there was more, so much more: Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster
...A few days later, in October, Brumberger flew from New York to Chicago to join Edwards for a trip to China. "Hey, I need to talk to you," Edwards said abruptly when they met in the terminal at O'Hare. They walked together to the airline's premium lounge, where Edwards had reserved a private meeting room for their conversation. "Sit," Edwards said--and then tore into Brumberger.
Stuff from the road is getting back to people, and it's obviously you who's doing it, Edwards said angrily. You didn't recognize who you work for. You don't work for Nick and Peter. You work for me. I trusted you like a son, but you broke my trust. I can't have you around me anymore. You're not coming to China, and you're never working for me again.
Brumberger's heart sank. "I'm sorry you feel that way," he said. "I always thought my goal in all of this was to do everything I could to help you become the next president of the United States."
"Why didn't you come to me?" Edwards asked.
"I did come to you! I came to you in Ohio. I called you after Labor Day! I tried!"
"No," Edwards said. "Why didn't you come to me like a fucking man and tell me to stop fucking her?"...
Breck Girl was a darling of the Moveon.org crowd.
Sarah Palin vs Breck Girl
The choice is yours America!
There's something eminently satisfying about having all your worst beliefs about a person confirme. It's a somewhat guilty satisfaction
I believe it's called Schadenfreude. :-)