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Those Crazy Dems

1. John Edwards as Patrick Batemen
“Beautiful, world-weary, and not yet 21, Alison Poole is what her new boyfriend calls a postmodern girl,” first sentence of the jacket copy from Jay McInerney’s Story of My Life (Atlantic/Grove 1988).

This John Edwards love child scandal is mind blowing. Dude supposedly screwed Rielle Hunter, a videographper who was the basis for Alison Poole, a fictional character in Jay McInerney’s second novel, Story of My Life. Poole was stolen from McInerney by his friend and fellow novelist Brett Easton Ellis, who killed her in American Psycho, then brought her back to life for Glamorama. The Edwards-Hunter scandal broke c/o (who else) The National Enquirer.Of course, Page Six is destroying this story like it’s 9/11. Meanwhile, Romenesko, a blog about the death of newspapers, is covering the story’s noncoverage by national newspapers. All this makes for the most postmodern political scandal ever.

Edwards always claimed to be a populist crusader. But his 6000-sq ft, $6 million house is the most expensive in his North Carolina county. His wife has terminal cancer and he’s still fucking a former NY party girl. I thus suspect John Edwards has a small penis. How else can you explain it?

2. Hillary and Obama Need to Cut the Shit, Announce Joint Ticket, Win White House
The Veepstakes are moving along with all the excitement of mold growth. None of the prospective picks (Kaine, Warner, Webb, Bahy etc) have the national following that could help Obama win voters’ trust (polls call him 24% “riskier” than McCain). In about two weeks, it’s all gonna come down to polling—what do women want; who polls best with the working class—but right now the Clintons are again stealing headlines. The NY Observer, like NY Mag before them, says Obama’s best way to win in November is with a Clinton VP:

But there’s another way that may seem more tempting now than it once did: teaming up with Clinton. Yes, her presence would turn off some independent voters, but it would also fully unify the party and – far more importantly – it would offer powerful emotional reassurance to the wavering voters who want to support Obama but who are liable to succumb to attacks on his experience. For millions of casual voters, Clinton has come to represent the very toughness and seasoning that Obama is said to lack. They want to vote Democratic this fall, but if they believe Obama is too risky, they will default to McCain, the “safe” choice. By picking Clinton, Obama would be telling these voters, in effect, that he’ll be operating with adult supervision.”

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