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Well, we've got it now, for sure. A middle aged lawyer-politician / world leader wanna-be gets hooked up with middle aged bar fly / somebody important wanna-be. Now he's a middle aged lawyer again. And she is not somebody important.
I used to like these thing better when Wilbur Mills skinny dipped in DC with his babe. Better yet, Rudy Giuliane, Gary Hart, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Franklin Rosevelt and Elliot Spitzer all took the same pit stop on the power trip. There is something about the lust fix that makes it more palatable to bear greatness - real or aspired.
On the legacy front, the real movers and shakers of greatness have had their women profiled in PBS biographies. It always seems to come out worse for the wanna-be's, their consorts are so insignificant. From now on, the only bio's on John Edwards will be from Fox and E!. All the girls will get is a few bad hair shots.
As for the bimbo de jour, no harm done. There is always an aspiring god who wants to go where no man has gone before, even just for a few minutes. Like the Nazi Bondage orgy in London, that life may just look like hell, but its not illegal.
By the way, does anybody smell smoke?
