John Edwards Screwing High School Kids, Too

Aging pretty-boy multi-millionaire John Edwards was a senator for a few years after a lucrative career as a personal-injury lawyer. For some reason, this made him John Kerry's pretend vice president, which led to a sweeping Edwards' fail in this year's Democratic primary. And now he's shutting down the scholarship program he started for poor kids at a North Carolina high school.

Edwards launched "College For Everyone" in 2005, when he started running for the Democratic nomination for 2008. Through the Center for Promise and Opportunity Foundation -- a non-profit Edwards started and funded -- the tuition was paid for 190 kids who wouldn't otherwise have gone to college.

TheNews & Observer  reported Friday:  

During his presidential run, Edwards had said he wanted to extend College for Everyone nationally to 2 million students at a cost of $8 billion. Edwards said he would pay for it by changing the way student loans are made, cutting out banks as middlemen.

"The chance to go to college meant everything in my life, and I want every young person to have the same chance," Edwards said last year during a visit to the high school in Snow Hill.

Now he no longer wants every young person to have that chance, plus his political career is finished, so he shut down the whole thing last week, the end.

(But will he pay for the college education of his Love Child ?)

 Edwards ending college program [News & Observer]