I supported his run for President, and I think he had the best ideas of the three main Democratic candidates when they were all in the race. And I try to be understanding about human needs and impulses and weaknesses and changes, we all have them from time to time about a smorgasboard of possibilities, and things happen.
But... You can't expect to get away with a lie in a Presidential campaign, not about an affair, not in this climate, not with the press as it is and Republicans as they are. Nor should you. It isn't even about morality, it's about common sense. It isn't going to work, and when it blows up on you, it blows up big. Imagine if Edwards had been the nominee. Where would Democrats be now?
Again, this isn't about the moral value of what happened in the first place: that's not the point of this post. It's about the wisdom of lying about something that there is NO WAY he was going to get away with over the course of a campaign. Not in 2008. The mess created from this lie is greater than the mess created from the affair.
Also: mmm mmm mmm mmm. (That's me, trying not to say I told you so.)