Jon Carroll: The real tragedy of the John Edwards scandal


	Jon Carroll: The real tragedy of the John Edwards scandal

Lexica

9-25-2009 11:36 PM

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jrc, jon-carroll, john-edwards, lies, cover-ups, honesty

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Jon Carroll, the best unsyndicated columnist in America.

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It's always the damn cover-up. I don't care what you did. We are all humans and all prone to error; we all have skeletons in the vestibule. Cop to it, and move on.

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