Former Senator and Presidential candidate John Edwards, who lost all credibility when he had an affair behind his sick wife’s back during the 2008 campaign, has commented on what he feels his effect on the election was–specifically to push both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to the left, and also to draw attention to the problem of poverty, which had not been fully addressed since Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society years of the 1960s.
While I certainly am very disillusioned with Edwards, I must admit that I believe he DID have a major impact on the campaign in the way he described in an interview with CNN.Â
The question is whether Edwards can possibly rehabilitate himself in any way so as to participate in the public square at any time in the future.  He himself says he has no idea what, if any, future politically or publicly he has. That is a scenario which will play itself out over time. We shall just have to wait and see what transpires.