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There’s something about the man that just gives me the creeps. But then I read this:

Power Line - It takes one to know one

It isn’t exactly news that John Edwards is a phony, but I suppose it’s news that John Kerry considers him one. According to Michael Crowley of the New Republic, Bob Shrum, Kerry’s campaign manager, will report in a forthcoming book that Kerry had qualms about choosing Edwards as his presidential running mate in 2004, and became “even queasier” after Edwards said he was going to share a story with Kerry he had never told anyone else. The story was that after Edwards’ son, Wade, had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home and hugged his body and promised that he would do all he could to make life better for people.

According to Shrum,

Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before — and with the same preface, that he’d never shared the memory with anyone else. Kerry said he found it chilling, and he decided he couldn’t pick Edwards unless he met with him again.

Apparently, though, Edwards’ chilling insincerity was not seared in Kerry’s consciousness because, as we all know, Kerry went ahead and selected Edwards to be his running mate. Shrum says Kerry came to regret this decision, thinking that he should have followed his “gut” and gone with Richard Gephardt.

I’ve been completely turned off whole relationships by people dishonestly using stories (I hear a story from someone, someone else forgets I was there and tries to pass it off as their own, that sort of thing) (I don’t forget things, see), but this, and then combined with the actual subject matter… Ew.