Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate
In ABC News Interview, Edwards Says He Cheated, but Did Not Father Child
John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extra-marital affair with a novice film-maker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.
In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 42-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.
Edwards also denied he was the father of Hunter's baby girl, Frances Quinn, although the one-time Democratic Presidential candidate said he has not taken a paternity test.
Edwards said he knew he was not the father based on timing of the baby's birth on February 27, 2008. He said his affair ended too soon for him to have been the father.
A former campaign aide, Andrew Young, has said he was the father of the child.
More (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5441195&page=1)
He also said he hasn't taken a paternity test either.
He would be toast if he was a GOP candidate......the DNC will probably want him for VP..... ::)
this is very clintonian. he is admitting what he can no longer deny, but still denying everything else. "yes, we did it. no, it's not my kid". I guess if she will make it with the breck girl, though, she'll make it with just about anyone.Watch the full interview tonight on "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. ET -- MUST SEE TV!!
I guess that ruins his chances for any potential VP nod. Yayyy!!!
this is very clintonian. he is admitting what he can no longer deny, but still denying everything else. "yes, we did it. no, it's not my kid". I guess if she will make it with the breck girl, though, she'll make it with just about anyone.Watch the full interview tonight on "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. ET -- MUST SEE TV!!
in the NBC article it says she slept with Edwards and a buddy of his from his campaign. so, they are going to paint *her* as a slut and the baby as "whoever's" ...
classy act that Edwards, while his wife has terminal cancer.
this is very clintonian. he is admitting what he can no longer deny, but still denying everything else. "yes, we did it. no, it's not my kid". I guess if she will make it with the breck girl, though, she'll make it with just about anyone.Watch the full interview tonight on "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. ET -- MUST SEE TV!!
in the NBC article it says she slept with Edwards and a buddy of his from his campaign. so, they are going to paint *her* as a slut and the baby as "whoever's" ...
classy act that Edwards, while his wife has terminal cancer.
+1I guess that ruins his chances for any potential VP nod. Yayyy!!!
nah the Dems make heroes out of people who admit this kind of stuff. (See Bill Clinton)
If anything it's IMPROVED his chances of getting the Veep nod.
this is very clintonian. he is admitting what he can no longer deny, but still denying everything else. "yes, we did it. no, it's not my kid". I guess if she will make it with the breck girl, though, she'll make it with just about anyone.Watch the full interview tonight on "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. ET -- MUST SEE TV!!
in the NBC article it says she slept with Edwards and a buddy of his from his campaign. so, they are going to paint *her* as a slut and the baby as "whoever's" ...
classy act that Edwards, while his wife has terminal cancer.
he took great pains to make it clear that elizabeth was in remission when he was banging the divorcee like a screen door in a hurricane. :whatever: like that makes a huge difference. more clintonian sidestepping and obfuscation.
this is very clintonian. he is admitting what he can no longer deny, but still denying everything else. "yes, we did it. no, it's not my kid". I guess if she will make it with the breck girl, though, she'll make it with just about anyone.Watch the full interview tonight on "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. ET -- MUST SEE TV!!
in the NBC article it says she slept with Edwards and a buddy of his from his campaign. so, they are going to paint *her* as a slut and the baby as "whoever's" ...
classy act that Edwards, while his wife has terminal cancer.
the news on Fox was reporting that he said his wife was in remission at the time. the guy asking whoever was on the phone ( a woman)....asked if that made a difference.....the woman on the phone said no. (sorry clicked over to it and didn't see who was being interviewed)
that would demonstrate insensitivity to womens' health issues, and you get the death penalty for that in the democrat party.
that would demonstrate insensitivity to womens' health issues, and you get the death penalty for that in the democrat party.
I wouldn't bet on it......
doc
if the affair is over, and it isn't his kid, and he did not love her in the first place, why the hell was he meeting her behind his wife's back at 2AM in a beverly hills hotel?
if the affair is over, and it isn't his kid, and he did not love her in the first place, why the hell was he meeting her behind his wife's back at 2AM in a beverly hills hotel?
if the affair is over, and it isn't his kid, and he did not love her in the first place, why the hell was he meeting her behind his wife's back at 2AM in a beverly hills hotel?
It was their weekly book club meeting. I know that's what I'm doing at 2am. :uhsure:
if the affair is over, and it isn't his kid, and he did not love her in the first place, why the hell was he meeting her behind his wife's back at 2AM in a beverly hills hotel?
It was their weekly book club meeting. I know that's what I'm doing at 2am. :uhsure:
the title that week was Ruining Your Career for Skanky Tail, by Ida N. ****mylifeup
I think the foreward is by gary hart.
King Sandbox Donating Member (780 posts)
Fri Aug-08-08 03:11 PM
Original message (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3754074)
Somehow, Karl Rove is behind the whole Edwards affair.
Connect the dots.
DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Fri Aug-08-08 03:12 PM
Response to Original message
2. Yeah
He was personally pushing John's dick in and out
Dots connected. Can't disprove it. End of story. Rove did it.
:eyes:
of course, paying an utterly unqualified person $114K from your campaign funds for work that she never actually did, just because, as it turns out, she was doing you is definitely unethical . . . I wonder if it's illegal?
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, Pa., prepares for an appearance on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart†and travels in Uganda in 2006.
Edwards’ PAC paid Midline $100,000 in a four-month span in 2006, and followed that up with two smaller payments totaling $14,461, the last on April 1, 2007. Link (http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080808/NEWS18/80808028&OAS_sitepage=news.rgj.com%2Fbreakingnews)
of course, paying an utterly unqualified person $114K from your campaign funds for work that she never actually did, just because, as it turns out, she was doing you is definitely unethical . . . I wonder if it's illegal?QuoteMidline’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, Pa., prepares for an appearance on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart†and travels in Uganda in 2006.
Edwards’ PAC paid Midline $100,000 in a four-month span in 2006, and followed that up with two smaller payments totaling $14,461, the last on April 1, 2007. Link (http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080808/NEWS18/80808028&OAS_sitepage=news.rgj.com%2Fbreakingnews)
So he had dealings with her up until April of 2007 (officially)...baby born in February of 2008....yep, seems possible.
this is totally clintonian . . .
"I did not . . . have a child . . . with that woman . . . behind my incurably sick wife's back" . . . .
Geraldine Ferraro said at least he was good-looking and the woman wasn't doing it with just anybody that was a senator or congressman....
so does that mean the woman has some intellect?
:fuelfire:
this is totally clintonian . . .
"I did not . . . have a child . . . with that woman . . . behind my incurably sick wife's back" . . . .
:bwah:
this is totally clintonian . . .
"I did not . . . have a child . . . with that woman . . . behind my incurably sick wife's back" . . . .
:bwah:
it's possible that I am getting a little bit too big of a kick out of this. I have been waiting for this to break for weeks.
of course, he drops the bomb friday afternoon in the middle of august . . . during the olympics :whatever:
this is totally clintonian . . .
"I did not . . . have a child . . . with that woman . . . behind my incurably sick wife's back" . . . .
:bwah:
it's possible that I am getting a little bit too big of a kick out of this. I have been waiting for this to break for weeks.
of course, he drops the bomb friday afternoon in the middle of august . . . during the olympics :whatever:
Yeah, well I find it hilarious as well. :lmao:
this is totally clintonian . . .
"I did not . . . have a child . . . with that woman . . . behind my incurably sick wife's back" . . . .
:bwah:
it's possible that I am getting a little bit too big of a kick out of this. I have been waiting for this to break for weeks.
of course, he drops the bomb friday afternoon in the middle of august . . . during the olympics :whatever:
Yeah, well I find it hilarious as well. :lmao:
well, he is right. there are two americas, as it turns out. in one america, he has an incurably sick wife. in the other, he has a girlfriend.
this is totally clintonian . . .
"I did not . . . have a child . . . with that woman . . . behind my incurably sick wife's back" . . . .
:bwah:
it's possible that I am getting a little bit too big of a kick out of this. I have been waiting for this to break for weeks.
of course, he drops the bomb friday afternoon in the middle of august . . . during the olympics :whatever:
Yeah, well I find it hilarious as well. :lmao:
well, he is right. there are two americas, as it turns out. in one america, he has an incurably sick wife. in the other, he has a girlfriend.
You're so bad. :evillaugh:
:lmao:
this is totally clintonian . . .
"I did not . . . have a child . . . with that woman . . . behind my incurably sick wife's back" . . . .
:bwah:
it's possible that I am getting a little bit too big of a kick out of this. I have been waiting for this to break for weeks.
of course, he drops the bomb friday afternoon in the middle of august . . . during the olympics :whatever:
Yeah, well I find it hilarious as well. :lmao:
well, he is right. there are two americas, as it turns out. in one america, he has an incurably sick wife. in the other, he has a girlfriend.
You're so bad. :evillaugh:
:lmao:
it looks like the "little johnny" vastly preferred the second one.
Media's self censorship is a bigger scandal than Edwards
Commentary: Is it any wonder that nobody buys newspapers any more?
By Tom Bemis, MarketWatch
Last update: 1:51 p.m. EDT Aug. 7, 2008Comments: 129
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The scandal over former Sen. John Edwards' alleged fathering of a love child is rapidly being surpassed by a greater travesty -- not one single major media organization in the U.S is covering the story.
It's August. It's the slowest news month of the year. Newspapers are dying on the vine.
But nobody wants to touch a sordid tale about a politician's love life?
Former Rep. Gary Condit should have been so lucky.
Bill Clinton, Larry Craig, and Ted Kennedy can only gaze in wonder at the dearth of coverage.
In February, the New York Times (NYT:New York Times Company spilled barrels of ink, and clear-cut a forest to tell the world that -- hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean? -- Sen. John McCain allegedly had had an affair. This was great stuff, until someone bothered to vet the story.
By those standards, the Enquirer's reporting on Edwards is Pulitzer grade stuff. (They have a picture.)
The guy's up for a cabinet post at least, maybe even veep -- well, not any more.
But somehow, it's just not relevant that he won't answer questions about why he was hiding from a couple of trashy tabloid reporters in a bathroom at the Beverly Hills Hilton at 2:30 a.m.?
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/medias-self-censorship-over-edwards-bigger/story.aspx?guid=%7B611D4113-6AE6-4A24-B96C-7F74E5AB3BC2%7D
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.
In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic.
"99% honest": more clintonian logic. :whatever:
although this is a very interesting comment:QuoteIn the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic.
my first reaction is, "duh!" :whatever: but it is a thousand times more honest that you would perhaps expect from a politician.
For an attorney and politician, that's one lousy statement. He could have worded that much better.
Now the renewing of their vows in July 2007 makes a lot more sense. He totally did that to smooth things over with his dying wife.
Scumbag.
For an attorney and politician, that's one lousy statement. He could have worded that much better.
Now the renewing of their vows in July 2007 makes a lot more sense. He totally did that to smooth things over with his dying wife.
Scumbag.
Diane Sawyer: "Let's turn now to our picture of the morning. And they are new pictures and David Muir is bringing them to us. You've been covering the Edwards campaign."
[During segment, a montage of photos of the Edwards renewal of vows can be seen onscreen.]
David Muir: "Yeah and this is an incredibly personal photograph that we’ve now gotten a chance to see. It’s the renewal of the vows, the backyard in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The former senator and his wife Elizabeth there with their children Kate and the two little ones, Emma Claire and Jack. Apparently this was an idea that they decided to do while they were back at the doctor's office in the spring when they suspected the cancer had come back for Elizabeth. John Edwards asking her, turning to her in the doctor’s office and saying, ‘Will you marry me again?’ And Elizabeth actually told him, she said, she asked back, ‘Will you take another 30 years?’ And he said, ‘Absolutely.’"
RIELLE Hunter - the woman reported by the National Enquirer to be John Edwards' mistress and mother of his love child - is no stranger to fans of Jay McInerney. The novelist dated the blonde for a few months in the late 1980s and based his book "Story of My Life" on her.
Hunter was known as Lisa Druck when McInerney met her at Nell's in 1987. "She's a nice girl," the author told Page Six. "She used to be a real party girl.
"When she wasn't out at nightclubs, she was taking acting classes. We dated for only a few months, but in that period, I spent a lot of time with her and her friends, whose behavior intrigued and appalled me to such an extent that I ended up basing a novel on the experience," McInerney recalled.
"It was narrated in the first person from the point of view of an ostensibly jaded, sexually voracious 20-year-old who was inspired by Lisa. I certainly thought of Alison Poole as a sympathetic and ultimately endearing character."
(more...)
elizabeth edwards just released a statement. it's not in me to post it. suffice it to say that I have the utmost
respect and admiration for her.
elizabeth edwards just released a statement. it's not in me to post it. suffice it to say that I have the utmost
respect and admiration for her.
I lost all rerspect for her after reading what she put out Wretch.
She made it sound like John Boy tripped and accidentally stuck his johnson in this chick and the Tabs were the real villains.
It is disgusting watching these women shill for their retard husbands.
elizabeth edwards just released a statement. it's not in me to post it. suffice it to say that I have the utmost
respect and admiration for her.
I lost all rerspect for her after reading what she put out Wretch.
She made it sound like John Boy tripped and accidentally stuck his johnson in this chick and the Tabs were the real villains.
It is disgusting watching these women shill for their retard husbands.
what is she gonna do, asdf?
she stuck to her guns, and they just happened to coincide with the sily pony.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it really is his kid and then that Elizabeth divorces him. :rofl:
I remember how she joined DU a year or two ago and they ran her off (not liberal enough I suppose). I wonder how many of them remember that.
"What I was thinking was this was something that was personal to my own family," Edwards said, citing other public figures having survived extramarital affairs. He recalled, he said, having heard "John Mccain talk about the mistakes that he’s made in his past with respect to his first marriage."
"I’m not the first person to do this," he said.
Shithead tried to change the subject to John McCain in tonight's interview.Quote"What I was thinking was this was something that was personal to my own family," Edwards said, citing other public figures having survived extramarital affairs. He recalled, he said, having heard "John Mccain talk about the mistakes that he’s made in his past with respect to his first marriage."
"I’m not the first person to do this," he said.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/On_adultery_Edwards_cites_McCain.html?showall
The candidate being touted as a torchbearer for women is not Senator Clinton, but one of her former colleagues, John Edwards....
"I've gotten to know a lot of political leaders over the years that I've been an advocate for women's rights. I know the difference between those who advocate as a political position and those who understand the reality of women's lives."
elizabeth edwards just released a statement. it's not in me to post it. suffice it to say that I have the utmost
respect and admiration for her.
I lost all rerspect for her after reading what she put out Wretch.
She made it sound like John Boy tripped and accidentally stuck his johnson in this chick and the Tabs were the real villains.
It is disgusting watching these women shill for their retard husbands.
what is she gonna do, asdf?
she stuck to her guns, and they just happened to coincide with the sily pony.
Just as I was disgusted with how the Primitive American Jews treated Zionism & the tiny Jewish State and proudly proclaimed themselves Dove Arab lovers and branded Israel "the New South Africa"I remember how she joined DU a year or two ago and they ran her off (not liberal enough I suppose). I wonder how many of them remember that.
Elizabeth was disgusted by how DU acted when Laura Ingraham was diagnosed with breast cancer that she scolded them and never posted again.
This whole thing is beginning to remind me of that line from "The Last Boy Scout"...
Joe: Sure, sure, it just happened. Could happen to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, fell on the floor and accidently stuck your dick into my wife. "Oops, I'm sorry, Mrs. H, I guess this just isn't my week".
I know a lawyer that hates lawyers.......especially the John Edwards type. I bet he'd just lone for Liz to give him a call......... :-)
One lawyer trying to take money out of another lawyers pockets....that's got to be ugly AND I WANT TO SEE IT.
elizabeth edwards just released a statement. it's not in me to post it. suffice it to say that I have the utmost
respect and admiration for her.
I lost all rerspect for her after reading what she put out Wretch.
She made it sound like John Boy tripped and accidentally stuck his johnson in this chick and the Tabs were the real villains.
It is disgusting watching these women shill for their retard husbands.
what is she gonna do, asdf?
she stuck to her guns, and they just happened to coincide with the sily pony.
terminal cancer or not, she allowed his lying to stay hidden while he was out there running for the highest office in the world. she let him fundraise, and receive honors and talk about morals like he had them - when he did not.
if she was as 'brilliant' as people claim, she would have said, "well, that affectively ends another Presidential campaign for you" ...but she didnt.