John Edwards caught with his mistress?!?!?!

[Italian_Stallion]

If Rielle is known to use drugs, doesn't that mean that maybe Edwards did that sort of shit, too?

[ondeadline]

Will politicians ever learn that fully admitting to a mistake won't get you into as much trouble as trying to cover it up. If he really funneled campaign funds to this woman, which he denied, then he's trying to cover this up.

[Write-brained]

If Rielle is known to use drugs, doesn't that mean that maybe Edwards did that sort of shit, too?

No, not necessarily.

[dooley_womack1]

No shockers? Damn, those are some good sources.

[poindexter]

Some democrats are targeting ire to Elizabeth Edwards for keeping the affair secret.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/26/elizabeth.edwards.ap/index.html

Have at it, libs.

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

Let's go after a cancer-ridden woman because she didn't want her husband's affair public?
Makes perfect sense. Idiots.

[Grimace]

Some democrats are targeting ire to Elizabeth Edwards for keeping the affair secret.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/26/elizabeth.edwards.ap/index.html

Have at it, libs.

The story quotes one consultant and two anonymous posters on a message board. That, apparently, is evidence that Democrats are bashing her. Great reporting.

[DanOregon]

These are smart people who know that something like this isn't a private matter when you are running for president. I wouldn't have a problem with the Edwards if they admitted it and continued their fight, but if she was part of the cover-up she deserves to be questioned about that, whether she has the big C or not.

[PeteyPirate]

These are smart people who know that something like this isn't a private matter when you are running for president. I wouldn't have a problem with the Edwards if they admitted it and continued their fight, but if she was part of the cover-up she deserves to be questioned about that, whether she has the big C or not.

I agree. Now if she had been a POW, that's a different story.

[beardpuller]

These are smart people who know that something like this isn't a private matter when you are running for president. I wouldn't have a problem with the Edwards if they admitted it and continued their fight, but if she was part of the cover-up she deserves to be questioned about that, whether she has the big C or not.

I agree. Now if she had been a POW, that's a different story.

  Pirates, that's well said.
  Good luck against the Hokies this weekend.

[PeteyPirate]

These are smart people who know that something like this isn't a private matter when you are running for president. I wouldn't have a problem with the Edwards if they admitted it and continued their fight, but if she was part of the cover-up she deserves to be questioned about that, whether she has the big C or not.

I agree. Now if she had been a POW, that's a different story.

  Pirates, that's well said.
  Good luck against the Hokies this weekend.

The cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

[Gold]

Will politicians ever learn that fully admitting to a mistake won't get you into as much trouble as trying to cover it up. If he really funneled campaign funds to this woman, which he denied, then he's trying to cover this up.

The reason Edwards wouldn't say that is because funnelling campaign funds is illegal.

[Simon_Cowbell]

These are smart people who know that something like this isn't a private matter when you are running for president. I wouldn't have a problem with the Edwards if they admitted it and continued their fight, but if she was part of the cover-up she deserves to be questioned about that, whether she has the big C or not.

I agree. Now if she had been a POW, that's a different story.

  Pirates, that's well said.
  Good luck against the Hokies this weekend.

The cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

CalcBoy... on fire.

High-quality consecutive posts.

[YankeeFan]

Edwards is a sweet heart:

Aide's tale of John Edwards sex tape
Sunday, June 28th 2009, 10:21 PM

Former presidential candidate John Edwards is out of luck if he hoped that the extramarital affairs of Gov. Mark Sanford and Sen. John Ensign would take people’s minds off his own cheating scandal.

Former Edwards aide Andrew Young says the ex-senator and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, once made a sex tape, according to someone who has seen Young’s book proposal.

St. Martin’s Press just inked a deal with Young, who also says in his proposal that, contrary to his public statement last year, he is not the father of Hunter’s infant daughter — Edwards is. Edwards has denied that.

Young says that his belief in Edwards ran so deep that he agreed to take the fall for the candidate, inviting the pregnant Hunter to live with him, his wife, Cheri, and their three children. Later, after Hunter delivered the baby, Young and his family moved to a different home in California.

While he was unpacking, Young discovered a videocassette, according to the book pitch. Hunter had been hired by the Edwards campaign to videotape the candidate’s movements, but this one is said to have shown him taking positions that weren’t on his official platform.

The purported sex tape confirmed to Hunter that Edwards was even more reckless than he thought.

According to our source, Hunter confided to Young that she and Edwards talked about getting married should the candidate’s cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, pass away, even discussing what music they’d play at their wedding.

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/06/28/2009-06-28_aides_tale_of_john_edwards_sex_tape.html

[poindexter]

Great thing about these old threads is to see the work of the sj.com who have since departed.

I see markvid, overrated, and Write-brained.  Fenian Bastard has to be on this thread somewhere, since he had such a hard-on for Edwards.

[DanOregon]

Hell, I was an early supporter for Edwards. I was an idiot.

[PeteyPirate]

Hell, I was an early supporter for Edwards. I was an idiot.

Also the greatest miscalculation I've ever made. At least I was partly blinded by the fact that he's from my state, though.

[Trouser_Buddah]

Go easy on yourselves, guys. It's damn near impossible to really know these guys. It doesn't make you an idiot to have supported them. It's their failings, not yours.

[old_tony]

Hell, I was an early supporter for Edwards. I was an idiot.

One day you will say this, only it will say "Obama" instead of "Edwards."

[Lieslntx]

Why the fuck would you wish that on anyone, Tony?

Shit, get real.

[old_tony]

Why the fuck would you wish that on anyone, Tony?

Shit, get real.

I don't wish it. I predict it.

[Ben_Hecht]

Sure, Obama could blow up.  No doubt about it.   And the anti-Obama poll numbers
figure to creep upward . . . but then, the GOP will actually have to nominate
someone in '12, rather than have a slot on the ballot worded "NOT Obama".
Your boys will have to actually settle on an individual, and that's going to be a big, big
problem for your pets, given the low-rent field currently under discussion.

Given the augean task he was left by Bubble Boy, BO wasn't left much room for error.
This great nation is still facing reams of devestating shit, from the rancid cake
baked by NeoCon Idiot Nation and the pigs who ran it into the ground.  BO's doing
a number of things I really don't like, but the broad approach currently being undertaken can hardly be worse than any hypothetical God's Waiting Room/Flash 'n Trash/Rich Man's Tool/Saddle Up That Dinosaur/Wife With Cancer? Bye! alternative.

Know one thing . . . the solution isn't to turn power back to the guys who virtually
singlehandedly steered us into the current mess with high glee, with an eye
towards the main chance of generating as much cash as possible for their pet
special interests.

Uh, uh.   Your boys had their decades-long chance.   and FUBAR'd it, on an historically-grotesque scale. 

Hope they grabbed all the money they think they need, for their sakes.

Thanks for everything.

[poindexter]

Go easy on yourselves, guys. It's damn near impossible to really know these guys. It doesn't make you an idiot to have supported them. It's their failings, not yours.

I respectfully disagree.  I sincerely believe one is an idiot to think these guys/girls of either party are in it for anything but their own self-interests.  I think that people who support politicians are complete rubes.  JMO

[Trouser_Buddah]

So is the answer to completely sit out the democratic process... not to push for the person you believe will do the better job in office?

[RickStain]

Go easy on yourselves, guys. It's damn near impossible to really know these guys. It doesn't make you an idiot to have supported them. It's their failings, not yours.

I respectfully disagree.  I sincerely believe one is an idiot to think these guys/girls of either party are in it for anything but their own self-interests.  I think that people who support politicians are complete rubes.  JMO

I think they believe that their own self-interest and the people's interests coincide.