“In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic.”
This sentence is stunning for its honesty. I had begun to think this above-the-masses attitude was partly behind the recent string of politicians admitting affairs. And here John Edwards comes right out and says it. When your face is plastered across the media, you zip around in jets and have people reaching to shake your hand and hold your baby — you could begin to feel the average rules don’t apply to you. A stunning admission and a truly sad one.