Interesting John Edwards Item

As I admired the Clintons for never trotting Chelsea out as a campaign prop when she was growing up, I held at least equal admiration for John Edwards for refusing to publicly make much of his son's death before Edwards was elected to the Senate.

It would seem, at the very least, in bad taste to do so and his choice to keep this tragic episode in his life private was a breath of fresh air for me.

(Compare this to Al Gore's hypocrtical speech about the tobacco lobby at the 1996 Democratic Convention.)

However, an item in yesterday's Washington Times about a new Bob Shrum book makes Edwards out to be...downright creepy!  As Shrum tells it, Edwards had a little bit of a penchant for making several people 'one of the only people' he told about how he embraced his dead son's corpse on a slab and gave him a posthumous promise to make the world a better place.

He tried this on John Kerry, telling him the same story, with the same "you're one of the only people I've told this to" schtick twice.  It stunned even him!