JOHN EDWARDS was found not-guilty on one count, having to do with heiress “Bunny” Melon’s contributions, with a mistrial declared on remaining charges, the jury deadlocked.
The North Carolina idiot pretty boy is a disgraceful man who will have to live with himself, which people like Edwards usually do easily. But calling this criminal and subjecting the taxpayers to footing the bill for this soap opera was malpractice.
Attorney General Eric Holder has disgraced his office by continuing this case to trial. Holder may yet become the worst attorney general in recent memory. Choosing to continue this travesty of injustice and spending would clinch that title.
I have no doubt Holder got word from on high to pursue this nonsense.
Perhaps the only more ridiculous utterly criminal waste of taxpayer money was the repugnantklan travesty of Bill Clintons fracking IMPEACHMENT which they couldn’t even get a simple majority for…even though they held a majority.
But I have a feeling that with all the bogus ginned up outrage over the nonissue of the New Black Panthers ciecus the administration felt they had to go after a Dem to appear fair.
Men with no balls, the legacy continues…
LOL. Screw Eric Holder is right. As I see it, they keep going after Democrats to curry favor with Republicans, who despise them even more.
I agree, what a joke, and all so that the administration could show well for it’s Republican friends.
Meanwhile men who stole billions and held the economy hostage for billions more in 2008 walk around free as a bird, with no hint of investigation in the air….yeah, thank god we have a “people’s president” in the White House.
does this really surprise anyone? Early on I refused to waste my time even reading it, and will continue to do so. There is so much more important things to cover like where Barry was born….
I also agree. This is what I call a waste of taxpayer money and peoples time for that matter. Eric Holder has been a terrible Attorney General. As for John Edwards, the way he did his wife Elizabeth was shameful. I always liked his wife way better than him. She was the reason he got as far as he did. She was the force in his campaign, at least in my opinion anyway.
It was very difficult to write about Mrs. Edwards. But the image was, unfortunately, not the whole picture.
This story by Heilemann and Halperin played out in the courtroom on the witness stand. It was a day of tears all ’round when it did.
You should read that piece, fmi.
It’s all so tragic, made worse by this trial.
Same here. In retrospect, it seems likely that she had as much to do with the populist tone of the Edwards campaign as he did.
“Holder may yet become the worst AG in recent memory?” Hmmm! Taylor your long term memory needs some work. I guess you weren’t around for the Alberto R. Gonzales years!
Oh Solo, Holder is really giving Gonzalez a run for the money! I think he has clinched the title. Utterly worthless.
Just the opinion of everyone in President Obama that I have come to expect from Taylor’s fans! Except for Hillary Clinton of course.
It’s a tough call, but I’ll go with Holder. The primary reasons are:
- In the worst financial crisis since 1929, Holder has yet to prosecute a single financial executive for the massive control fraud that went on. His only prosecutions for mortgage fraud are for mortgage applicants who (allegedly) filed bogus financial information.
- While failing to prosecute any former Bush Administration officials for war crimes, he has tried to prosecute record numbers of whistleblowers under a largely unused espionage act. Some of those whistleblowers were reporting – wait for it – war crimes. In short, it’s better to have committed a war crime under this administration than to report one.
All in all, a record any AG should be ashamed of.
She never said Gonzales wasn’t the worst AG in recent memory or that Holder was the worst one in recent memory. Use of the word YET is a qualifier indicating that the jury is not in YET on him but he’s on his way. Big difference. And, valid comment based on his record thus far.
What was Nixon’s AG’s name?
John Mitchell, the only AG to serve jail time because of his role in Watergate It’s funny that Nixon’s re-election committee was called CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President). Mitchell was a real mean sob. His wife, however, was a hoot and the Nixon Administration hated her because she spoke her mind. I was a teenager when Watergate happened and remember Martha vividly during that time. She was the only light bringer in that whole creepy criminal crew.
This from Wikipedia:
Mitchell was evil, not incompetent.
Yup.
He’s doing the job he was hired to do. I know that, because he hasn’t been fired, and I would have fired him two years ago had it been my call to make, based on what he hasn’t accomplished.
What he, Gonzo, and Mitchell all seem to have in common is that they are reliable company men. They will do what they’re told, no matter what.
Yup.
How did that whole watergate thingy and the Nixon Administration turn out? NOT incompetent?!!!!!
I actually knew that, just trying to add a little yuck, yuck perspective.
You forgot Alberto