{"id":3164,"date":"2010-02-06T09:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T14:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2010-02-06T09:50:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T14:50:33","slug":"john-edwards-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/02\/06\/john-edwards-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"John Edwards Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Book review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-01-31\/andrew-youngs-revenge\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> for a review in <em>The Daily Beast<\/em> of the book about John Edwards.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Say this for John Edwards and Andrew Young, the author of a chilling new memoir: they deserved each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously RichardH had sent me <a title=\"Grifter's Tale\" href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/03\/grifters-tale\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to <em>Grifters\u2019 Tale<\/em>, a comparison of the John Edwards phenomenon to the Sarah Palin phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>I hope these stories don&#8217;t lead to a new cynicism that all politicians are like this.\u00a0 I figure that when a person has an extraordinary ability to move people with his or her words, they could very easily realize they can use that ability for nefarious purposes.\u00a0 Almost by definition, a successful politician has this extraordinary ability. Not every person with this ability becomes a con artist.\u00a0 Some become trial lawyers, beauty queens, or movie stars. Perhaps for beauty queens and movie stars the looks move people and the words don&#8217;t matter.\u00a0 Maybe the looks even work for some trial lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some con artists may just realize they can use their skills for political purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link for a review in The Daily Beast of the book about John Edwards. Say this for John Edwards and Andrew Young, the author of a chilling new memoir: they deserved each other. Previously RichardH had sent me this link to Grifters\u2019 Tale, a comparison of the John Edwards phenomenon to the Sarah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}