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- Middle Finger - 08-08-2008
What a lying asshole. Perfect for this forum.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_el_pr/edwards_affair
WASHINGTON - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He denied fathering the woman's daughter. Edwards told ABC News that he lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter but said that he didn't love her.
He said he has not taken a paternity test but knows he isn't the father because of the timing of the affair and the birth.
A former Edwards campaign staffer claims he is the father, not Edwards.
Hunter's daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter, was born on Feb. 27, 2008, and no father's name is given on the birth certificate filed in California.
The National Enquirer first reported on the affair in October 2007, and Edwards denied it.
"The story is false," he told reporters. "It's completely untrue, ridiculous."
The Enquirer carried another story last month, stating that its reporters had accosted Edwards in a Los Angeles hotel where he had met with Hunter after her child's birth. Edwards called it "tabloid trash," but he generally avoided reporters' inquiries, as did his former top aides.
In the interview, scheduled to air on ABC News' "Nightline," Edwards said the tabloid was correct when it reported on his meeting with Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hotel last month.
Most mainstream news organizations refrained from reporting the story, but newspapers in Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C., recounted the Enquirer's allegations in prominent articles on Thursday.
Edwards acknowledged the affair on Friday afternoon, traditionally a slow-news period even when the Olympic Games' opening ceremonies are not preoccupying millions of Americans.
Edwards was a top contender for the Democratic nomination for president, pursuing his party's nod even after announcing that his wife, Elizabeth, had a deadly form of cancer.
He placed second in the Iowa caucuses last January but dropped out of the race a few weeks later. He has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential choice for Barack Obama. The former North Carolina senator was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2004.
David Bonior, Edwards' campaign manager for his 2008 presidential bid, said Friday he was disappointed and angry after hearing about Edwards' confession.
"Thousands of friends of the senators and his supporters have put their faith and confidence in him and he's let him down," said Bonior, a former congressman from Michigan. "They've been betrayed by his action."
Asked whether the affair would damage Edwards' future aspirations in public service, Bonior replied: "You can't lie in politics and expect to have people's confidence."
In 2006, Edwards' political action committee paid $100,000 in a four-month span to a newly formed firm run by Hunter, who directed the production of just four Web videos, one a mere 2 1⁄2 minutes long.
The payments from Edwards' One America Committee to Midline Groove Productions LLC started on July 5, 2006, five days after Hunter incorporated the firm in Delaware.
Midline provided "Website/Internet services," according to reports that Edwards' PAC filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Midline's work product consists of four videos showing Edwards in informal settings as he prepares to make speeches in Storm Lake, Iowa, and Pittsburgh, as he prepares for an appearance on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and travels in Uganda in 2006.
Edwards' PAC followed the six-figure payment with two smaller payments totaling $14,461, the last on April 1, 2007.
At the time Hunter was compiling the videos in 2006, Edwards was preparing a run for president.
Episode One of the four videos captures a conversation between Edwards and an unseen woman as the two chat aboard a plane about an upcoming speech in Storm Lake, Iowa.
Cutting between clips of the speech and the conversation with the woman, Edwards touches on his standard political themes, declaring that government must do a better job of addressing the great issues of the day, from poverty and education to jobs and the war in Iraq.
"I want to see our party lead on the great moral issues
- Lady Cop - 08-08-2008
lying dirtball. he is expected to make a statement very shortly. (CNN)
i hope the woman demands a DNA test of the child.
- LuMPyPussy - 08-08-2008
You know that kid is his!
- Lady Cop - 08-08-2008
LittleMissPoopyPants Wrote:You know that kid is his!she needs to prove it thenrape himfor child support.
- Liquid - 08-08-2008
Say goodbye to any presidential or vice presidential aspirations now, lol. It NEVER CEASES to amaze me how stupid these idiots are. The let everything they have worked for over decades just disappear overnight because they have no self control at all. Honestly, it is sad how many times this same thing happens over and over again.
- LuMPyPussy - 08-08-2008
Gary Hart, anyone?
- Lady Cop - 08-08-2008
i really feel for his wife, who by all accounts is a great lady. he put her through this before. she has incurable cancer, couldn't he goddamn wait?? what a selfish cold prick. self-serving nauseatingcomments he made today too.
- The Antagonist - 08-09-2008
jackboots Wrote:LittleMissPoopyPants Wrote:You know that kid is his!she needs to prove it thenrape himfor child support.
Paying her child support is nothing that will cause him any grief. Someone came forward and claimed he was the kid's father. But Edwards is willing to take the DNA test regardless.
And besides, why is everyone here making her out to be some kind of victim here? She knew damn well what this guy had attached to him. BOTH are to blame for the infidelity.
This lying sack of shit says he "became narcissistic" during the campaigns, blah blah blah.... BULLSHIT! This guy is narcissistic from day one. Humble people in general do not run for high office!
I like the bullshit "I made a very bad mistake". Yeah it's always a mistake when you get caught. If they get away with it I wonder what they call it?
- Lady Cop - 08-09-2008
i agree she is not a victim, but i thought it was petty and small for him to come out and say he didn't love her.
it will be interesting to see if he's the baby daddy.
he also tried to make himself into Abe Lincoln, small town poor boy blah blah.
i'm more angry at what he did to his sick wife and his kids.
- LuMPyPussy - 08-09-2008
The Antagonist Wrote:I never tried to insinuate the mistress wasn't to blame, she knew he was married when she got involved with him. In fact I tend to blamea woman that interferes with a marriage like she did... men are stupid and don't think clearly when some slut opens her legs.jackboots Wrote:LittleMissPoopyPants Wrote:You know that kid is his!she needs to prove it thenrape himfor child support.
Paying her child support is nothing that will cause him any grief. Someone came forward and claimed he was the kid's father. But Edwards is willing to take the DNA test regardless.
And besides, why is everyone here making her out to be some kind of victim here? She knew damn well what this guy had attached to him. BOTH are to blame for the infidelity.
This lying sack of shit says he "became narcissistic" during the campaigns, blah blah blah.... BULLSHIT! This guy is narcissistic from day one. Humble people in general do not run for high office!
I like the bullshit "I made a very bad mistake". Yeah it's always a mistake when you get caught. If they get away with it I wonder what they call it?
- Liquid - 08-09-2008
He can try to say whatever he wants, but his political career has basically come to an end. he will not rise higher. pretty big decision to make by doing something very stupid
- Sinister - 08-09-2008
I'm wondering why this fuckwad chose to confess now.
- Lady Cop - 08-09-2008
Sinister Wrote:I'm wondering why this fuckwad chose to confess now.i think it's because the national enquirer had so much proof. with more to come.
- Liquid - 08-09-2008
right - the main stream media finally picked up on the story that the Enquirer has reported on for a while and the proof was coming out. he was/is going to be exposed anyway.
- LuMPyPussy - 08-09-2008
I'd be interested in why the mainstream press failed to cover this issue... in fact they basically covered it up.
- Mr. Incivility - 08-09-2008
The main stream media finally reporting a story about a liberal fucking up?
Only because they had no choice.
I'd love to see them do some honest reporting about things that really matter. I'm surprised that they are not making this douche bag out to be a hero, just like they did with Clinton and the whole Monica Lewinski affair.
- Lady Cop - 08-09-2008
it was just reported on FOX news that lawyer for baby mama says she will NOT take part in paternity test! ::doh::citing privacy.
- LuMPyPussy - 08-09-2008
Edwards probably threatened to cut off the gravy train.
- Duchess - 08-10-2008
Am I supposed to care about this bullshit ?...I don't...Never have...Why is it even made out to be any of our biz ?...This is a private matter, one that Elizabeth Edwards has known about since 2006...If I looked into the backgrounds of every man I hired to do a job I would never get the bestman for that job...I don't care who someone is dickin' around with, its not my business...I care about one thing only, and thats how they do their job...This is a country that impeached a Prez for lying about sex yet, most have no problem with all the lies that dumbass George has uttered...So, to my way of thinking, people care more about sex than people dying...Wake the fuck up America...
- The Antagonist - 08-10-2008
I think the big deal over it is because the whole time he's out there politicking and campaigning he was saying how he's going to lead the country morally etc.
When you claim to be a church going family man devoted to your wife and family, it hits a sore spot especially if you have aspirations for being the president of our country.
Politicians have enough of a stigma of being cheats and liars and although we all know the truth, we want to believe the next guy we vote for.
And for all GW's faults I really don't think he personally is a liar. I see him as too loyal to his "people" and administration and maybe even a bit gullible as well. It's those around him that have lied. Maybe you can call him a liar by the fact the lies have been fed to him and he's repeated them but in my book that does not make him a liar.
I would NEVER hire a liar for any job I need him for best man for it or not. I couldn't trust that person around me, mine and the other employee's belongings. Liars lack trustworthiness.
As for her not wanting the DNA test.... I see that as weird in itself. Do you really think he would "cut the gravy train" so to speak if it's his and still boast he'll take the DNA test himself? You KNOW news like that will leak out one way or another some day along the road. He can't be THAT stupid to add one more nail in his coffin.
But all in all, this story is dead and old already. It's not newsworthy as headline news for a week long where there are more important issues out there that should be reported on.