The Incredibly Shrinking John Edwards

Maureen Dowd writes a very sad and poignant column about John and Elizabeth Edwards here. (He was my first choice for the Democratic nomination, until I began to sense a certain shrillness and lack of creativity in his campaigning. Then I switched to Obama in the Fall of 2007.) Here's a paragraph:

John Edwards’s political career is over, and he’s being investigated by the
feds about whether he used campaign funds to underwrite his affair. Nobody —
except Rielle — has any interest in hearing from him again. Americans would have
been relieved if the last we heard of him was that cringe-inducing “Nightline”
interview last year, when he made the argument that he was a helpless narcissist
and that he hit on Rielle when Elizabeth’s cancer was in remission.