Forgive me if I’m straining to believe John Edwards

Forgive me if I’m straining to believe John Edwards’ version of events. My last conversation with him wasn’t a good one.

In some ways, that talk reflected the difficult relationship we’ve had with him since he became a national political figure.

About 9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, former Sen. Edwards reached me on my office phone.

Earlier that day, while campaigning in South Carolina, Edwards denied a report in The National Enquirer that he had an affair with an unnamed woman who once worked in his campaign.

In the newsroom, we debated whether to run Edwards’ comments about the Enquirer story in the next day’s print edition.