Love Child?

Quick - who said this:

In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic.

No, it wasn't Barack. It was John Edwards, admitting to ABC that he had an affair with a California woman who had been hired to make videos for his campaign.

"I want to see our party lead on the great moral issues -- yes, me a Democrat using that word -- the great moral issues that face our country," Edwards tells the crowd. "If we want to live in a moral, honest just America and if we want to live in a moral and just world, we can't wait for somebody else to do it. We have to do it."

While he denies that he is the father of her child, there remain some questionable aspects to details of his story, especially around payments made to the woman, Rielle Hunter.

Lawyer Fred Baron, who was national finance chairman for the former presidential candidate, said by telephone that he did not make payments directly to Rielle Hunter or to the former campaign aide who has said he is the father of Hunter's child.

"What I did was I helped them out with living circumstances so they could live in another place,'' Baron said. He said he paid the rent directly.

Said to be under consideration as a VP candidate, as a possible attorney general for Barack, and for a speaking slot at the convention, it is natural to wonder what effect this might have on the presidential race as the conventions approach, along with a possible paternity test.

"John Edwards was not aware that assistance was provided to anyone involved in this matter. I did this of my own volition and without the knowledge, instruction, or suggestion of John Edwards or anyone else. The assistance was offered and accepted without condition. This is now and shall always remain a private matter between these individuals and me,'' Baron said in the statement.

Will Barack be dragged down in any way by the taint of Edwards, or the media attention that the Edwards story might inhale? He'll do his best to stay away from the man whose been living two lives.

Obama said he understood the Edwardses wouldn't be attending the Democratic National Convention.

"I wish them all well," he said.