Posted on 08/07/2008 10:35:29 AM PDT by LdSentinal
Barack Obama is being ordered to distance himself from John Edwards amid allegations his one-time rival has fathered a love child.
Mr Edwards had been touted as a possible vice president, but yesterday leading Democrats told the former North Carolina senator to come clean about the rumours of his affair with a campaign aide or stay away from the party convention.
Party organisers are furious that Mr Edwards has refused to deny that he’s the father of Rielle Hunter’s baby daughter Frances and fear he is taking attention away from Mr Obama.
Mr Edwards, 55, dropped his own bid for the presidency in January after coming a distant third behind Mr Obama and Hillary Clinton, but he had been expected to make a rousing speech at the Denver convention later this month.
Rumours that Mr Edwards, whose wife Elizabeth is battling breast cancer, fathered the child were ignored by the mainstream media until yesterday when the National Enquirer printed a grainy photograph allegedly showing Mr Edwards cradling the baby in a Los Angeles hotel room last month.
Mr Edwards dismissed earlier Enquirer stories about his affair with Miss Hunter, a 44-year-old campaign videographer, as “tabloid trash.”
The magazine released the “spy-cam” photo supposedly showing Mr Edwards inside the hotel room on July 21 as proof. When reporters confronted him in the lobby he fled into the men’s toilets and refused to come out until he was rescued by security guards.
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Some leader!
National Enquirer is now MSM?..............
How was this guy an asset to the Democrats anyway? Is NObomba so stupid that he would consider this liability a viable candidate even without the love child?
Ok ok ok . . . no need to answer that.
Obama is being ORDERED????
who is doing the odering? and will this person/people still control the O-man when he’s in the oval office?
I’ve gone to a few dim-o-blogs and can’t believe there are still people strongly denying what will be proven valid. These people would never risk another lawsuit from an ambulance chaser. It’s true, it’s leaking and they will sink with their stupidity.
When the more common MSM refuses to look at a story, then the Enquirer seems to gain credibility with the people. (rolls eyes)
A. don’t see how this possibly hurts Obama. B. Daily Mail is about the same level as National Enquirer
Everyone sees it at the checkout counter, even if they don’t buy it.
I believe National Enquirer is still controlled by the clintons, who bought up control of ll the supermarket rags after they broke the Danny Williams story and committed other insubordinate acts during his second term.
“John Edwards love child rumours threaten the Barack Obama presidential campaign”
Are there allegations of a threesome or something?
If not, why in the heck would this endanger Obama’s campaign.
It looks to me like he’s already formulating a list of reasons why he didn’t win (in addition to the main one, we are all racists, of course).
Any ideas?
What difference does this make? Unless Barack is John Edwards’ love child? Wait a minute Barack is someone else's love child. Of course that could be a problem if Mr. Edwards has a time machine?
LOLs...The crappy UK press reports the story that the even crappier US Moron Media refuses to touch.
I think the US Moron Media has jumped the shark...2008 may be the year of the accelerated extinction of all these crappers!
Rumours? HA.
Osama's gotta get a big bounce from the convention if he is to have a prayer in Nov.Edwards' presence could shift the spotlight away from The Savior Himself.I think that's what they're talking about.
who is doing the ordering?
The same people that have been controlling him from the beginning. With this empty suit and no experience in national politics and not much in state politics you know someone else has to be giving the orders. They say he has no slave blood well he sure seems to be somebody's puppet now.
It was pretty funny listening to the airheads defend him.
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