Showing posts with label affair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label affair. Show all posts

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Two questions

1) How did I never know that Alexander Hamilton had an affair? I read *a ton* of history novels about that period of American history.

2) Steven Clemons argues:
I wish John Edwards had done what Alexander Hamilton had done in a similar situation -- as I wrote last October -- but not to be. Sad.
How is what Alexander Hamilton did any better? Hamilton confessed the affair to a couple of government insiders, who then told Thomas Jefferson, who leaked it to the press. A few years later, a member of the press confronted Hamilton with love letters to Maria, Hamilton finally admitted the affair and deny corruption. That sounds exactly like what John Edwards did.

Friday, August 8, 2008

More thoughts on John Edwards

I'm not just happy that he didn't win the nomination, but I'm also happy that he didn't come close like Sen. Clinton. It's very good for the Democrats that John Edwards dropped out of the race in January, instead of June.