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John Edwards Cancels Speaking Events

September 05, 2008 04:35 PM ET | Alison Go | Permanent Link | Print

John Edwards is laying low until after the November election and apparently is canceling all his collegiate speaking events until then. That includes his scheduled appearance at Hofstra University this Monday—his first scheduled event since he admitted to an extramarital affair—and engagements at the University of Buffalo on September 26 and the University of Illinois on October 14. Edwards's $65,000 speaking fee at Illinois had not yet been paid.

"I don't want my appearance at these events to be a distraction from the important issues of the election, or from the important purpose of these meetings," the Democratic senator and former presidential candidate said.

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What if Jesus came back and couldn't get any publicity? A

plot for Hollyood comedy produced by Rob Reiner?

What if in Jesus' Second Coming, His last name happened to

be Edwards? Would Senator Edwards be persecuted in his stead?

Would the DEVIL, Antichrist, Satan and Lucifer impose their

wrath on the gloriously normal Edwards family? What if said DEVILS had their own political "Change" agent? Do you think

Sen. Edwards could bear the brunt of the Forces of Hell?

Penny Marshall and Gloria Steinem are polishing the script.

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I am glad the colleges are not hosting him speaking. He is NOT a person a college student should take advice from. He is now a loser.

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Everyone in North Carolina knew John Edwards was fake, that is why he did not seek re-election for his senate seat here. He would not have won.

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