Although often totally divorced from reality, perceptions in politics tend to overwhelm the truth. And these days the perception that John Edwards is a hypocrite now endangers his presidential hopes.
The latest thread for this narrative is the next-day story that followed the Democrat’s attack this week on party rival Hillary Rodham Clinton for taking $20,000 in campaign funds from conservative media titan Rupert Murdoch and his executives. Now it turns out that Edwards himself got $800,000 for a book deal from Murdoch’s publishing arm, HarperCollins.
The Edwards camp explains that most of the money went to charity and the rest was only for expenses. Still, this story is destined to be linked to the flaps over the poverty fighter’s expensive haircuts, hedge fund salaries and multi-million-dollar North Carolina home.
Fair or not, their collective impact is saddling Edwards with a dreadful image that he must shake before it becomes unshakable.
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