Obama To Appoint Shady Lawyer AG In Return For Political Favor?

There have been multiple reports that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama intends to appoint a shady trial lawyer as Attorney General if he wins the presidency as payment for a political favor.

This is an attorney who previously raked in millions by exploiting the horrible accident of a little girl who was literally disemboweled when she sat on a wading pool drain that was open to suction.

The young girl was injured because, just minutes before the accident, other children playing at the wading pool pulled the cover off the drain. County procedures to screw down the cover in the children’s wading pool were not followed—even though the drain cover was screwed down in the adult pool, and even though the wading pool drain cover had been screwed down in the past.

The attorney sued the municipality, the county, and the pump manufacturer, eventually settling for a total of $5.9 million ($5.4 million of that from local taxpayers). After these suits were out of the way he set his sites on the drain cover manufacturer.

With the other defendants out of the picture, the attorney designed a story for the jury that made it seem like the drain cover manufacturer was the only one to blame. He also accused the manufacturer of hiding documents he never ask for and provided a dramatic closing argument that invoked the death of his own son who will killed serving his country.

The result? A $25 million verdict based on a lot of slick lawyering and emotions but very little guilt.

Who is this shady attorney? None other that former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.

According to multiple reports, all Edwards has to do is endorse Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. If Obama obtains the presidency, it has been said that Edwards will become the new Attorney General in return.
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ref: http://www.american.com/archive/2008/february-02-08/a-closer-look-at-john-edwards