Former Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards broke a long silence in an interview published online today in the Washington Post.In his first extended interview since confirming an affair on ABC's Nightline last summer, he refused to discuss his mistress Rielle Hunter, her baby, his wife Elizabeth's new memoir or a grand jury probe into whether he illegally used campaign money to pay Hunter.
He did talk about a recent trip to El Salvador to build houses for the poor. But mostly, the paper said, he has spent "many long hours in the big house" in Chapel Hill.
He told the paper he has no plans to restore his reputation. That's not "something I'm focused on," he said. "The only relevance of it at all is my ability to help people," he told the Post. "That's the only reason it matters."
The story quoted a disappointed mother from Greene County where Edwards started a pilot program called College for Everyone that all but guaranteed a college education to kids who couldn't afford it. He ended the program a week after confirming his affair.
The paper also talked to residents of New Orleans who felt deceived after an aid program he promised in 2007 never fully materialized.
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the real slumdog millionaire
Enough with this scummy idiot, RFK, George McGovern, and Ted Kennedy! Self absorbed morons who destroyed the Democratic party and led to the election of Nixon, Nixon, and Reagan. You Republican kool-aid drinkers should praise the Kennedy's at every turn; they gave you your heroes.
Sooooo, little Johnny Edwards climbs out from under his rock.
I wonder how much child support he's paying?
Surprise!!! Surprise!!! Surprise!!!
Another Democrat that didn't do what he said he was going to do!!! I'm in shock !!!
I totally match with everything you've written.
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