Edwards admits to affair, denies fathering child
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
16 minutes ago
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." He professed his love for his wife, Elizabeth, who had an incurable form of cancer, saying, "I've been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years and as anybody who's been around us knows, she's an extraordinary human being, warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known. So the story's just false."
Last month, the Enquirer carried another story 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 Hilton 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 in March 2007 that his wife's breast cancer had spread to her bone. Elizabeth Edwards revealed in November 2004, shortly after her husband's defeat, that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. After months of remission, the couple announced the recurrence of the cancer 2 1/2 years later.
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.
The Edwardses have three children — Cate, Jack and Emma Claire. Another son, Wade, died at age 16 in a 1996 car accident.
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 them 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 YouTube 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 — 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."
The sound track for the six-minute video is the song "True Reflections" which begins with these words: "When you look into a mirror, do you like what's looking at you? Now that you've seen your true reflections, what on earth are you gonna do?"
The video entitled "Plane Truths," opens with Edwards relaxing in his seat on the plane, telling the unseen woman that "I actually walked the country to see who I am, who I really am, but I don't know what the result of that will be.
Edwards adds: "But for me personally, I'd rather be successful or unsuccessful based on who I really am, not based on some plastic Ken doll that you put up in front of audiences, that's not me, you know?"
Oh, Johnny. I guess the media will start beating this to death.
If the Republicans are smart, they won't touch this one. Let the media drive the public to boredom over it. After all, Edwards isn't running for anything, he doesn't hold any seat they could try to wedge him out of, and it could bring unwelcome splash-back on McCain.
Personally, I think it's the Republican voters' fault, anyway. If they would've just held back and allowed Edwards to be VP, he wouldn't've needed to sooth his sorrows so. So, everyone who voted Bush - I blame YOU!!!!
Though I guess this will counter Ann Coulter's charge that Edwards is gay.
Maybe Not!!!
Since becoming pregnant, Hunter has lived under assumed names in a series of expensive homes in North Carolina and, more recently, in Santa Barbara, Calif.
sweet, she lives by me. i should go find this chick.
Oh, Johnny. I guess the media will start beating this to death.
If the Republicans are smart, they won't touch this one. Let the media drive the public to boredom over it. After all, Edwards isn't running for anything, he doesn't hold any seat they could try to wedge him out of, and it could bring unwelcome splash-back on McCain.
Personally, I think it's the Republican voters' fault, anyway. If they would've just held back and allowed Edwards to be VP, he wouldn't've needed to sooth his sorrows so. So, everyone who voted Bush - I blame YOU!!!!
Though I guess this will counter Ann Coulter's charge that Edwards is gay.
thanks for the giggle
just that this was even considered to be "breaking news" it's already being beaten to death
well, MY reason for not commenting is that i just heard about it a few minutes ago (some of us here DO WORK now and then...). apparently he has admitted to the affair but denies paternity of the child. i for one am personally disappointed, but i wasn't interested in him as a friend and/or romantic partner. i thought he had some very good ideas when he was a presidential candidate. i'm not sure how this issue impacts his ability to hold political office.
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I've never cheated on my wife. Where's my stone to throw?
I'm sure he would have said the same thing 10 years ago.
I think it's pretty low what he did, and his career is going to ruined because of it. There are other politicians out there who have done much worse and are still in office.
Why do we care what happens in his personal life? I felt the same way about Clinton. I don't give a shit if he got a hummer from an intern, we have much more important things to worry about.
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Why no talk about Edwards cheating on his cancer-stricken wife?
What's there to say about it? It wasn't a good thing to do, but there are more important things to think about at this point. People cheat on spouses all the time - this just happens to be a famous guy.
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What's there to say about it? It wasn't a good thing to do, but there are more important things to think about at this point. People cheat on spouses all the time - this just happens to be a famous guy.
exactly.
honestly, I'd rather have Edwards and his fuck friend in the house than Obama and his shitty policies.
Keep dreaming, it's the liberal press protecting one of their own, powerful liberals circling the wagons ... he's gonna be a no show at convention, no cabinet or VP nod for him. He's done.
SHAZAM! He's scrambling to preserve any ounce of respect now! (And so will big media, "uh, we where just about to break it when he short-circuited our story by admitting it....")
Another thing to take away from this -- the EASE of the LIE -- just like Clinton, just like many politicians and big powerful folks everywhere, deny, lie, evade, lash out. Then plead for understanding.
Not his kid, yeaaaaah, riiiiiiight.
We will not even hear coverage or discussion of the lying, bank it.
Why do we care what happens in his personal life? I felt the same way about Clinton. I don't give a shit if he got a hummer from an intern, we have much more important things to worry about.
In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it. But being 99% honest is no longer enough.
I was and am ashamed of my conduct and choices, and I had hoped that it would never become public. With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006 and today I take full responsibility publicly. But that misconduct took place for a short period in 2006. It ended then. I am and have been willing to take any test necessary to establish the fact that I am not the father of any baby, and I am truly hopeful that a test will be done so this fact can be definitively established. I only know that the apparent father has said publicly that he is the father of the baby. I also have not been engaged in any activity of any description that requested, agreed to or supported payments of any kind to the woman or to the apparent father of the baby.
It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me that I am sorry, as it is inadequate to say to the people who love me that I am sorry. In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic. If you want to beat me up – feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help.
I have given a complete interview on this matter and having done so, will have nothing more to say.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
but the illusion of knowledge.
~Daniel Boorstin
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
~Albert Einstein
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What's there to say about it? It wasn't a good thing to do, but there are more important things to think about at this point. People cheat on spouses all the time - this just happens to be a famous guy.
Not all people run for POTUS. Not all people who cheat have spouses with CANCER.
I've never cheated on my wife. Where's my stone to throw?
Well goody fuckin' gumdrops for you. You want a fuckin' medal or a trophy?
I've never cheated, either. Big fuckin' whoopy-do.
But that doesn't mean someone who does "cheat" or has extra-marital affairs is a piece of shit or lesser a person than you, me or anyone else.
People have needs......sexual, affectionate and intimacy needs. It's human nature. It's a huge part of us. Sometimes, they can't or don't get what they need, where they presently are. So they seek it else where.
I'm not saying what he did was right.
But it's a distinct possibility the guy was emotionally fucked up, from seeing his wife going through this. Maybe he just needed someone or something his wife was in no condition to give. So he made a bad choice. Probably a choice out of emotional distress and desperation.
Right Wingers= It's worse to get caught cheating or having sex, than to kill, starve and rip-off thousands upon thousands.
Of course the operative words are ....." get caught".
We all know Reuplicans are no different than anyone else. Affairs, homosexuality, sex in airport bathrooms, nipple-clamps and butt-plugs; yeah, it's all part of the Republican' private way of life. As is condemning, demonizing and attacking those very things....in the public eye.
What hypocrisy.
All people are the same. Repubs, Demos, Liberal...who ever. Everyone is the same.
Everyone else is concerned with phoney wars that are killing thousands upon thousands of innocent people. They are concerned with the environment ......human rights....quality of life.
Republicans are concerned with who's fucking who and who's getting a blow job, at an inappropriate time:rolleyes:
Maybe if you fuckers focused more on your own sexuality and kept your noses and grubby little fingers out of everyone else's pants and bedrooms; you'd find yourself less vicious and bitter. More satisfied.
But that doesn't mean someone who does "cheat" or has extra-marital affairs is a piece of shit or lesser a person than you, me or anyone else.
I understand what you're driving at. I just think people who are leaders ... or who want to be leaders ... are held to a higher standard, and should be. Cheating on your wife speaks to your character. And character is important in our leaders. Is it the ONLY thing that's important? Of course not. But when you're contemplating who you want in a leader, that person's character is one thing you should consider. If a man's own wife can't trust him to do the right thing, how can a bunch of strangers trust him to do the right thing?
Character does matter.
People have needs......sexual, affectionate and intimacy needs. It's human nature. It's a huge part of us. Sometimes, they can't or don't get what they need, where they presently are. So they seek it else where.
You're right. Edwards probably heard, "Not tonight, honey, I'm still weak from the chemo" one too many times.
everybody wants the most they can possibly get
for the least they could possibly do
Right Wingers= It's worse to get caught cheating or having sex, than to kill, starve and rip-off thousands upon thousands.
Of course the operative words are ....." get caught".
We all know Reuplicans are no different than anyone else. Affairs, homosexuality, sex in airport bathrooms, nipple-clamps and butt-plugs; yeah, it's all part of the Republican' private way of life. As is condemning, demonizing and attacking those very things....in the public eye.
What hypocrisy.
All people are the same. Repubs, Demos, Liberal...who ever. Everyone is the same.
Everyone else is concerned with phoney wars that are killing thousands upon thousands of innocent people. They are concerned with the environment ......human rights....quality of life.
Republicans are concerned with who's fucking who and who's getting a blow job, at an inappropriate time:rolleyes:
Maybe if you fuckers focused more on your own sexuality and kept your noses and grubby little fingers out of everyone else's pants and bedrooms; you'd find yourself less vicious and bitter. More satisfied.
What Edwards did was wrong regardless of the little letter (D) or (R) next to his name.
"Other people do it, too" is no kind of defense.
everybody wants the most they can possibly get
for the least they could possibly do
Cheating on your loyal & good spouse (there's no indication otherwise for Mrs. Elizabeth) is very low. Cheating on her while she is battling cancer is even worse. Think if your mother was battling cancer and your father cheats on her meanwhile.
He hooked up with a younger, attractive woman while his wife was battling cancer. It's bad. We all agree.
However, it appears that Elizabeth has forgiven him, or is in the process of. So if she is able to deal, then we can to. And I'm politically conservative, so I'm no Edwards apologist.
Again this in no way takes away from the wrongness of his acts.
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You may or may not have your time line mixed up.
But I generally don't really concern myself with other people's personal sex life and whether or not they are getting some tail/sausage on the side.
I find phoney, trumped-up wars which kill many innocent people, to be more significant in the scheme of things.
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
16 minutes ago
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." He professed his love for his wife, Elizabeth, who had an incurable form of cancer, saying, "I've been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years and as anybody who's been around us knows, she's an extraordinary human being, warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known. So the story's just false."
Last month, the Enquirer carried another story 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 Hilton 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 in March 2007 that his wife's breast cancer had spread to her bone. Elizabeth Edwards revealed in November 2004, shortly after her husband's defeat, that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. After months of remission, the couple announced the recurrence of the cancer 2 1/2 years later.
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.
The Edwardses have three children — Cate, Jack and Emma Claire. Another son, Wade, died at age 16 in a 1996 car accident.
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 them 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 YouTube 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 — 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."
The sound track for the six-minute video is the song "True Reflections" which begins with these words: "When you look into a mirror, do you like what's looking at you? Now that you've seen your true reflections, what on earth are you gonna do?"
The video entitled "Plane Truths," opens with Edwards relaxing in his seat on the plane, telling the unseen woman that "I actually walked the country to see who I am, who I really am, but I don't know what the result of that will be.
Edwards adds: "But for me personally, I'd rather be successful or unsuccessful based on who I really am, not based on some plastic Ken doll that you put up in front of audiences, that's not me, you know?"
If the Republicans are smart, they won't touch this one. Let the media drive the public to boredom over it. After all, Edwards isn't running for anything, he doesn't hold any seat they could try to wedge him out of, and it could bring unwelcome splash-back on McCain.
Personally, I think it's the Republican voters' fault, anyway. If they would've just held back and allowed Edwards to be VP, he wouldn't've needed to sooth his sorrows so. So, everyone who voted Bush - I blame YOU!!!!
Though I guess this will counter Ann Coulter's charge that Edwards is gay.
sweet, she lives by me. i should go find this chick.
and what's love got to do with it anyway?
it's always the hypocracy surrounding the affairs that makes for ironic hearty laughter
thanks for the giggle
just that this was even considered to be "breaking news" it's already being beaten to death
angels share laughter
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lame ass excuse too....'BUT...i didnt love that women'!
oh thanks John...that makes it all better now. oh, and your not the father either...well good for you. off the hook....
-Big Fish
what a dick, glad he didn't dupe us into voting for him
I hope his wife tells him to hit the road....unless she plans on running for pres later, then she'll stay on board right Hillary?
"Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th (was) not John McCain, it (was) ignorance."~Michael Moore
"i'm feeling kinda righteous right now. with my badass motherfuckin' ukulele!"
~ed, 8/7
I know. It's so stupid and hypocritical.
Let he who has never poked one just for the thrill, cast the first stone.
I've never cheated on my wife. Where's my stone to throw?
I'm sure he would have said the same thing 10 years ago.
I think it's pretty low what he did, and his career is going to ruined because of it. There are other politicians out there who have done much worse and are still in office.
Love ya Punkinfur
for the least they could possibly do
What's there to say about it? It wasn't a good thing to do, but there are more important things to think about at this point. People cheat on spouses all the time - this just happens to be a famous guy.
R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
honestly, I'd rather have Edwards and his fuck friend in the house than Obama and his shitty policies.
but that's a story for another day.
SHAZAM! He's scrambling to preserve any ounce of respect now! (And so will big media, "uh, we where just about to break it when he short-circuited our story by admitting it....")
Another thing to take away from this -- the EASE of the LIE -- just like Clinton, just like many politicians and big powerful folks everywhere, deny, lie, evade, lash out. Then plead for understanding.
Not his kid, yeaaaaah, riiiiiiight.
We will not even hear coverage or discussion of the lying, bank it.
Democrats have their private lives exposed.
Republicans have our private lives exposed.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12405.html
STATEMENT OF SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS
August 8, 2008
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it. But being 99% honest is no longer enough.
I was and am ashamed of my conduct and choices, and I had hoped that it would never become public. With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006 and today I take full responsibility publicly. But that misconduct took place for a short period in 2006. It ended then. I am and have been willing to take any test necessary to establish the fact that I am not the father of any baby, and I am truly hopeful that a test will be done so this fact can be definitively established. I only know that the apparent father has said publicly that he is the father of the baby. I also have not been engaged in any activity of any description that requested, agreed to or supported payments of any kind to the woman or to the apparent father of the baby.
It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me that I am sorry, as it is inadequate to say to the people who love me that I am sorry. In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic. If you want to beat me up – feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help.
I have given a complete interview on this matter and having done so, will have nothing more to say.
but the illusion of knowledge.
~Daniel Boorstin
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
~Albert Einstein
Not all people run for POTUS. Not all people who cheat have spouses with CANCER.
He is the lowest of low.
Well goody fuckin' gumdrops for you. You want a fuckin' medal or a trophy?
I've never cheated, either. Big fuckin' whoopy-do.
But that doesn't mean someone who does "cheat" or has extra-marital affairs is a piece of shit or lesser a person than you, me or anyone else.
People have needs......sexual, affectionate and intimacy needs. It's human nature. It's a huge part of us. Sometimes, they can't or don't get what they need, where they presently are. So they seek it else where.
I'm not saying what he did was right.
But it's a distinct possibility the guy was emotionally fucked up, from seeing his wife going through this. Maybe he just needed someone or something his wife was in no condition to give. So he made a bad choice. Probably a choice out of emotional distress and desperation.
Of course the operative words are ....." get caught".
We all know Reuplicans are no different than anyone else. Affairs, homosexuality, sex in airport bathrooms, nipple-clamps and butt-plugs; yeah, it's all part of the Republican' private way of life. As is condemning, demonizing and attacking those very things....in the public eye.
What hypocrisy.
All people are the same. Repubs, Demos, Liberal...who ever. Everyone is the same.
Everyone else is concerned with phoney wars that are killing thousands upon thousands of innocent people. They are concerned with the environment ......human rights....quality of life.
Republicans are concerned with who's fucking who and who's getting a blow job, at an inappropriate time:rolleyes:
Maybe if you fuckers focused more on your own sexuality and kept your noses and grubby little fingers out of everyone else's pants and bedrooms; you'd find yourself less vicious and bitter. More satisfied.
I understand what you're driving at. I just think people who are leaders ... or who want to be leaders ... are held to a higher standard, and should be. Cheating on your wife speaks to your character. And character is important in our leaders. Is it the ONLY thing that's important? Of course not. But when you're contemplating who you want in a leader, that person's character is one thing you should consider. If a man's own wife can't trust him to do the right thing, how can a bunch of strangers trust him to do the right thing?
Character does matter.
You're right. Edwards probably heard, "Not tonight, honey, I'm still weak from the chemo" one too many times.
for the least they could possibly do
What Edwards did was wrong regardless of the little letter (D) or (R) next to his name.
"Other people do it, too" is no kind of defense.
for the least they could possibly do
He hooked up with a younger, attractive woman while his wife was battling cancer. It's bad. We all agree.
However, it appears that Elizabeth has forgiven him, or is in the process of. So if she is able to deal, then we can to. And I'm politically conservative, so I'm no Edwards apologist.
Again this in no way takes away from the wrongness of his acts.
Yes, it does.
the same reason I don't talk about McCain and his affair on his first wife..
I don't care.
funny shit....
that's all i can think about too...is his style of speaking and what he just did. he was like so pure and all....lol
'why in america is it fair for some people to have one wife...while others are forced to have another wife.... of less quality'????
i got an autographed book of edwards' autobiography for christmas from my sister...havent read it yet...not going too...
-Big Fish