John Edwards-"The Politician"

John Edwards at Raleigh-Durham Airport, December 11, 2009 after returning from Bunny Mellon's Virginia farm on a Mellon private plane.



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More revelations are coming out of Andrew Young's book ("The Politician"), which is all about the John Edwards scandal. Granted, I have not read the book, and in fairness, we should not forget that Young was a close aide to Edwards and participated in this scheme to hide the North Carolina senator's love affair and illegitimate child. His own credibility should be considered.

Having said that, there is still a big legal cloud hanging over Edwards in connection with all that money that went to Rielle Hunter. Where did it come from? Did it come from campaign donations?

Now the name Bunny Mellon comes out. According to Young, Bunny (of the famed Mellon dynasty) contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Edwards which went to support Hunter. We also know that Edwards personally visited her a month before conceding he was the father of Hunter's baby.

Even assuming that Ms. Mellon is one-hundred per cent alert and lucid, how unseemly is this that Edwards is personally asking her for all this money? Did she know what it was for? Was a 99-year-old rich woman manipulated by Edwards into funding this cover-up? What was said during that Virginia meeting between Edwards and Mellon? Why was there such a meeting in the first place?

There may be a perfectly legitimate explanation for all this, or perhaps better stated one that is not a technical violation of law, but....

What a guy!