Yes, I know enough about colonial history to recognize allusions to the white man's burden when I see it, especially when the allusion leads straight - and entirely unjustly - to Bill Clinton's doorstep. Are you implying this is how we should adjudge Bill's humanitarian efforts in Africa?

Also, it's impossible to discuss President Clinton in the context of this campaign and race, without alluding to Barack Obama. He is the context here.

When did your love for dictatorial powers first bloom?

Allowing admiration for anyone other than The One to compete in any way with His Invesco coronation? Disgusting. Public demonstrations of less than complete agreement with The One's ways and means? Damned First Amendment needs to go (the Fourth has already been taken care of, hallelujah).

And about putting Hillary's name in nomination? Those 18 million voters need to be taught a lesson. Heh.

So, was Edwards a ringer in this whole sleazy campaign season? Knowing he had this potential voter bomb just sitting there waiting to be discovered, was his role to sandbag Hillary Clinton and take votes away from her? Would Hillary have fared far better in Iowa if it hadn't been for Edwards? Would the whole nomination process then have taken a whole different direction?

I don't care in the least if John Edwards had an affair. What does matter, and very much, is that a) he lied about it, and b) he may well have have skewed the whole damned nomination process - in Obama's favor. That much is really, really rotten.

I once admired Edwards. No more.

It's more than likely that many of the "Gimme a break, it's none of our business" bloviators on this thread would instead be pillorying not only Edwards but also the Clintons (yet again). But in the present circumstances, the School Of Cool opts to once again present its faux face.

Yah, right, a man attempting to run for the highest office in the land does so knowing that he has a terrible secret (in the eyes of a majority of voters) which would sink his party were he to become its candidate and were his secret to become known. And that's okay. It's also okay if he repeatedly lies about the story. It's okay if he pays off his mistress using campaign funds. It's also okay if he has a history of publicly excoriating a fellow Democrat, a sitting president, for sexual behavior which, as it turns out, isn't as morally questionable as the behavior the candidate will soon exhibit. It's okay, too, if this man helps sandbag the wife of the former sitting President when she too becomes a Democratic primary contender, in part by reminding everyone just whose wife this woman, a senator, is.

Yup, it's all good. Who are you people kidding?