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One of the things that made John Edwards a hard electoral sell well before his affair was revealed was the visceral sense people got that he was simply too much of a self-adoring preener.

From Time • May 17, 2011

Among his peers, he has long been known as something of a preener, taken with a sense of his own prowess.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2010