For John Edwards, Drama Builds Toward a Denouement

[snopes]

The story of the spectacular rise and fall of John Edwards, with its sordid can’t-look-away dimensions, is moving slowly but deliberately to its conclusion in North Carolina.

A federal grand jury in Raleigh is investigating whether any crimes were committed in connection with campaign laws in an effort to conceal his extramarital affair with a woman named Rielle Hunter. At the same time, Mr. Edwards is moving toward an abrupt reversal in his public posture; associates said in interviews that he is considering declaring that he is the father of Ms. Hunter’s 19-month-old daughter, something that he once flatly asserted in a television interview was not possible.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/us...20edwards.html

[PatYoung]

The problem with the baby "drama" is that everyone has known it was his kid (even if it isn't) for a year.