Update: John Edwards Confesses to Affair but Denies Paternity

[© tweed]

does anyone doubt this story now?

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[ChrisFromNJ]

does anyone doubt this story now?

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It seems like Kerry was right to disown him after the election - and the nutroots was wrong.

Give credit to most of the Democratic primary voters - they say through his fake hucksterism and abandoned him in favor of two better candidate.s

[bullmoose88]

I never liked Edwards (his trial lawyer background was the only thing I liked.).  I always got a weird vibe from him when I saw him on tv.

[Mr. Morden]

does anyone doubt this story now?

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I don't doubt the story, but I do think it was an idiotic thing for Kerry to ask.  It still boggles my mind that Kerry thought he might actually have another shot in 2008 if he lost to Bush in 2004.

[anti_leftist]

does anyone doubt this story now?

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I don't doubt the story, but I do think it was an idiotic thing for Kerry to ask.  It still boggles my mind that Kerry thought he might actually have another shot in 2008 if he lost to Bush in 2004.

The second part of that isn't what bothers me....just typical political opportunism.

But the first part about him basically exploiting his dead son (repeatedly) to advance his political career is utterly sickening.

[Conan]

Scum. I wonder why he even bothered to reveal this. He still doesnt have a future if you ask me.


Elizabeth is a much better person.

[??????????]

Is this the two Americas he was referring to?

[Aizen]

I never supported Edwards because he was a fraud but I never hated him. I can't believe he actually went and pulled a John McCain. John Edwards is human trash

[Lief 🗽]

This is hardly better than cheating on your crippled wife with a rich beer heiress so that you can launch your political career, but that doesn't excuse it at all. It's really none of our business though. He is though an asshole for running for President after this. What an October surprise this would have been.

[HardRCafé]

It's really none of our business though.

At what point exactly would it become our business?

[Lief 🗽]

It's really none of our business though.

At what point exactly would it become our business?

How is someone's personal life our business?

[J. J.]

This is hardly better than cheating on your crippled wife with a rich beer heiress so that you can launch your political career, but that doesn't excuse it at all. It's really none of our business though. He is though an asshole for running for President after this. What an October surprise this would have been.

Actually, she's not "crippled," though she was in an accident while John McCain was a Prisoner of War.  Carol said this terrible thing about John:  "He’s a good guy. We are still good friends. He is the best man for president."

I don't call one of my old girlfriends a "good girl."

[Torie]

This is hardly better than cheating on your crippled wife with a rich beer heiress so that you can launch your political career, but that doesn't excuse it at all. It's really none of our business though. He is though an asshole for running for President after this. What an October surprise this would have been.

Staring at the tube and lying his ass off to us, is offensive to me, and when a public figure lies to me, well yes, it is my business. And in this case the liar was a sanctimonious prig, who preened his goodness around as if he were a saint. The man should be put in stocks in the public square, and not allowed to touch his hair for a week.

[Torie]

This is hardly better than cheating on your crippled wife with a rich beer heiress so that you can launch your political career, but that doesn't excuse it at all. It's really none of our business though. He is though an asshole for running for President after this. What an October surprise this would have been.

I sense that you have this habit, that when a Democrat is caught out, you rummage your files for some Pubbie to flagellate, compulsively seeking partisan symmetry for the sins of your party's product lines. Can't we let each sin stand on its own for awhile, before finding where it fits in the matrices?

[The Man From G.O.P.]

HEY TN2024, THE NAT ENQ IS A RAG F**K OFF YOU RIGHT WING HACK



Oh, hey....

[??????????]

HEY TN2024, THE NAT ENQ IS A RAG F**K OFF YOU RIGHT WING HACK



Oh, hey....

[??????????]

The Enquirer has tried running this story before, it's never gotten anywhere. Trash this like you would an ARG poll

Hmm...a paper that preys upon people at the bottom of the economic spectrum going after a candidate that pushes policies most beneficial to them...so surprised.  At least he's getting some attn. from the "liberal" media, unlike those politicians from each party that were rated most favorably by corporate America.

National Enquirer + Internet blogs + Edward's various political enemies, does not equal a believable story.

Seriously? The National Enquirer? Seriously?

As a general rule, when sleaze rags start getting very specific about details they probably aren't making the whole thing up.

Thx, Al.

[anti_leftist]

It's really none of our business though.

At what point exactly would it become our business?

How is someone's personal life our business?

In addition to the reasons already mentioned, Edwards tried conveying himself as the courageous man "standing by his sick wife" during the campaign to boost his chances.

What a guy. Exploits his dead son and dying wife for political gain all the while banging some pretty disgusting ass.

[HardRCafé]

Doesn't he still have two more kids to exploit?

[??????????]

What a guy. Exploits his dead son and dying wife for political gain all the while banging some pretty disgusting ass.

What do you expect from a lawyer?

[Aizen]

This is hardly better than cheating on your crippled wife with a rich beer heiress so that you can launch your political career, but that doesn't excuse it at all. It's really none of our business though. He is though an asshole for running for President after this. What an October surprise this would have been.

Actually, she's not "crippled," though she was in an accident while John McCain was a Prisoner of War.  Carol said this terrible thing about John:  "He’s a good guy. We are still good friends. He is the best man for president."

I don't call one of my old girlfriends a "good girl."

Are you seriously trying to justify McCain here? "He's a good guy"? Seems like thinly veiled resentment to me.

[Mr. Morden]

The Enquirer has tried running this story before, it's never gotten anywhere. Trash this like you would an ARG poll

Hmm...a paper that preys upon people at the bottom of the economic spectrum going after a candidate that pushes policies most beneficial to them...so surprised.  At least he's getting some attn. from the "liberal" media, unlike those politicians from each party that were rated most favorably by corporate America.

National Enquirer + Internet blogs + Edward's various political enemies, does not equal a believable story.

Seriously? The National Enquirer? Seriously?

As a general rule, when sleaze rags start getting very specific about details they probably aren't making the whole thing up.

Thx, Al.

Don't forget all the gems in this thread:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=66543.0

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

What a guy Edwards is! An ambulance chaser who cheats on his cancer stricken wife! You can bet that that kid is his too!

[Reaganfan]

If you all remember...


....I always wanted Edwards to be the nominee....if he had been the nominee...hahahahah!

[HardRCafé]

What a guy Edwards is! An ambulance chaser who cheats on his cancer stricken wife! You can bet that that kid is his too!

Does anyone else think it's creepier if his campaign aide got sloppy seconds?  That is the story he's sticking to.