Axelrod: In 2008, Hillary offered to make Edwards attorney general if he would quit and endorse her

You think Eric Holder has been a horrendous attorney general, and you're not wrong, but don't think for a moment that it couldn't have been worse. In the same vein, you think Barack Obama has been an abysmal president, and you're not wrong, but . . .

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Apparently this nation will once again be asked next year to decide if Hillary Clinton should be our president. She is a woman who has attained a variety of impressive-sounding positions all for the purpose of positioning herself for the presidency, even though she achieved basically nothing while actually performing these jobs. That is not very impressive. Even less impressive is John Edwards, an ambulance-chasing lawyer who managed to get himself elected to the U.S. Senate and came close enough when running for the presidency in 2004 to be named John Kerry's running mate. Consumed by personal ambition (so it's no wonder Hillary could relate to him), he tried again in 2008. Oh, by the way, at the same time he was also cheating on his cancer-stricken wife and using campaign funds to cover this up. Nice guy. And when it became clear that he wasn't going to become president, Edwards started looking for a deal. Hillary Clinton, who is willing to do absolutely anything if it will benefit her politically, was only too happy to oblige, according to former Obama campaign manager David Axelrod:

Presidential campaign consultant David Axelrod, in his memoir “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics,” recalls a conversation with an Edwards emissary, who told him: "Well between us, Hillary is offering attorney general, but what John really wants is to be on the ticket.” The book is due out Feb. 10. An early copy was obtained by the Daily News. “Hillary’s camp was desperate to escort him out the door,” Axelrod writes.

It should tell you everything you need to know about Hillary that she was willing to take a character like John Edwards and make him attorney general of the United States. Your average personal injury attorney you see advertising on TV has about the same legal background as Edwards, and there's at least a decent chance that guy isn't sleeping around on his wife while she battles cancer. But Hillary is willing to justify anything at all if she thinks it can help her become president. It is the only thing that matters in her life. An attorney general who is abjectly unqualified and clearly dishonest represents no problem whatsoever if he helps Hillary get what she's after. Then again, knowing what we know now, it's clear that aligning in this way with Edwards would have been a disaster for Hillary - which serves as a useful reminder to Republicans that she is not the brilliant politician a lot of people make her out to be. Edwards used to constantly tell us there are two Americas. He was right. One America is so stupid it takes seriously people like Hillary Clinton and John Edwards as presidential contenders. The other uses its brains. Of course, it's entirely possible that Axelrod is lying. But this is entirely consistent with the way Hillary normally operates, so the thinking here is that Axelrod is telling the truth in this case.