Give it a rest, John Edwards

OK, I've really had it with John Edwards now. He's got everyone and their uncle out there crying about pundit Ann Coulter spinning a bad joke and insinuating that he is gay, and then he turns around and tries to raise money off it by telling everyone to show their disgust for Coulter's "bigotry" by sending him campaign contributions. And this from a guy who recently hired two of the most bigoted bloggers out there--Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen--and kept them on his staff despite their blatant anti-Christian, anti-Catholic bigotry. Now Edwards wants to wrap himself in the "victim" label and get people to pay him because he's allegedly been targeted with hate speech.

You'd never guess that this guy was a trial lawyer, would you?

But Edwards is far from done. Next the guy who hires Christ-hating bloggers claims to speak for Jesus Christ, telling an interviewer that "Jesus would be most upset with the selfishness of Americans and the country's willingness to go to war when it's not necessary.”

It's bad enough that the guy hires and retains employees who mock Christianity daily, but now Edwards wants to use Jesus as a campaign prop to advance his own views. And what "selfishness" is Edwards talking about? It's a fact that Americans give more charitable aid to other countries and provide more disaster relief than any other country on the planet, and Americans give more to charity as individuals than do citizens of any other country. Could Edwards be talking about the "selfishness" that causes one to build and live in a six million dollar, 28,000 square foot mansion--the largest home in his county--while his neighbors still live in trailers?

Of course this shouldn't come as a surprise. Edwards really wants to have it both ways. He wants the Christian vote (as long as it doesn't earn him the wrath of the left-wing blogger community) and he tells people that he's a Christian, but then he turns around and says that he doesn't see America as a Christian nation. Trying to have his cake and eat it too, Edwards tells the website beliefnet "I guess the word 'Christian' is what bothers me, even though I'm a Christian."

So the idea of a nation founded on Christian ideals bothers him? Good thing he wasn't there to interfere with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin when they and other founding fathers established this nation in accordance with Christian principles. Or maybe it's the idea of identifying too strongly with the 80% of us Americans who ARE Christians. After all, that will hurt his standing with the radical wing of the Democrat Party--the ones who believe that morality has no place in society any longer.

A couple of weeks ago, I merely disliked John Edwards as a Presidential candidate because I saw him as someone who never did an honest day's work in his life and who made his fortune as a trial lawyer by suing hospitals and other large corporations then pocketing a large chunk of the payouts. I don't care for people like that as a rule--and it's because of people like that and the system that they perpetuate that I do not practice law today even though I am an attorney.

However John Edwards' obvious hostility towards Christian principles, coupled with his attempt to cover it up and pander to Christian voters, has convinced me that John Edwards is 100% wrong for America. We don't need him as President and cannot afford him or anyone like him in a leadership position, especially in today's times.