John Edwards--the Quintessential Chameleon

He is the Breck Girl, tending to his 1200-dollar, Hollywood-professional coiffure like a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.

After all, he did say that he was more in tune to women's issues than the female candidate standing right beside him in the debate.

He is also the consummate African-American, claiming that he has done more for minorities than the African-American candidate running against him for the Democratic nomination.

We also know that he is the ultimate bubba, pandering to southern newspaper editors with all of the 'y'alls' and 'dad-gums' one would expect to hear from Andy Griffith.

The 'aw-shucks' demeanor that John Edwards seems to be able to turn on and off at will certainly did not impress one southern newspaper editor who has seen the candidate in action in a variety of settings and has concluded that he is one big phony.

And it is no wonder. Edwards is a male Hillary Clinton, except much worse.

Remember when Hillary went south early in the campaign and gave several speeches before African-American audiences using a fake black-southern accent?

Edwards uses similar tactics but to the nth degree.

He simply becomes what he thinks the people he happens to be with expect to see. When he is with the editor of a southern newspaper he quickly becomes the 'aw-shucks' bubba. When he is 'on' just prior to a speech he makes his way through the crowd with a fake smile, pretending to be a 'man of the common people.' When speaking to more sophisticated audiences he is the penultimate professional, the silvery-tongued attorney who can manipulate audiences every bit as much as he once manipulated juries.

Edwards' penchant for being the chameleon, however, is beginning to catch up with him. As Lincoln said, 'You can't fool all of the people all of the time.' For someone who has been in the public eye as long as Edwards, eventually some very important people along the way are going to catch on to the game.

And Edwards has been had.

Read the following scathing expose written by a newspaper editor in Columbia, South Carolina, whose observations of Edwards through the years have led him to conclude that the candidate, to put it simply, is a big fake:

http://www.thestate.com/editorial-columns/story/139273.html