[sailaway21]

Tossing out any further pretenses of objectivity...
I find McCain's past actions and Edward's more recent ones distasteful. While McCain did marry the woman that was the object of his affections, I repeat my thought that it was all rather unseemly.

At the present time though, I'm confronted with two candidates with long-standing marriages. One of the candidates has always honored his wife's wishes and pretty much kept her out of the political arena. Only a presidential run has brought her into prominence. Mrs McCain has heretofore lived in Arizona, electing to not follow her husband to Washington.

Mr. Edwards, on the other hand, has made his marriage and the stresses of his wife's cancer a major theme within his presidential primary campaign, apparently with his wife's approval. I'm having a bit of cognitive dissonance over his public persona of standing and sitting by his wife's side and bedside as she battles sickness and disease with the private person who managed to find time within those obligations to sire a child with another woman. And then lie about it. But, maybe that's just me.