Posted on 05/03/2012 5:53:56 AM PDT by Zakeet
John Edwards' daughter left the courtroom in tears Wednesday as a former aide testified about an argument Edwards had with his now-deceased wife, Elizabeth, on the day a tabloid published a story on his affair.
Edwards turned to his daughter, Cate, as witness Christina Reynolds was beginning the account of the argument at the Raleigh airport. As Edwards asked if his daughter wanted to leave, Cate walked out of the room wiping her tears. She later returned to court after a recess.
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It now seems that both the Edwardses were masters at the art of deception and almost literally led double lives. I do have some sympathy for the daughter as you can’t pick your parents, and the fact that they are scum doesn’t make you not love them.
And this article gave me a better appreciation of Hunter’s “art”...if she made Edwards look “not Presidential”, then she was right on the mark.
The people I really feel sorry for are the children spawned by this no god POS. They’re the ones that will suffer.
Obviously, Johnny boy was using his oldest daughter to gain sympathy.
What I wish the judge would say in this trial:
“Okay, this is completely ridiculous. John, you are a scumbag. You got that? A complete scumbag. But that’s not illegal. Now get out of here and let’s stop wasting the taxpayer money on this stupidity.”
I cannot even begin to imagine the pain, as a daughter, to witness what it would take for my dying mother to tear off her shirt in public, begging for my father’s love and him not giving it.
I hope he gets sodomized in prison daily so badly the medical staff will have a room set aside specifically for him to sew him back up.
Seriously. As a former NC resident, he deserves all he has coming to him.
What is she doing in the courtroom at all? Nothing good can come of it.
>He is the face of the democrat party. ‘Nuff said.<
Post of the day.
>“Okay, this is completely ridiculous. John, you are a scumbag. You got that? A complete scumbag. But that’s not illegal.< ??
Edwards is not on trial for being a scumbag. He is on trial for converting campaign funds to personal use.
Or that you have to raise your brother and sister, as you promised your dying mother, because their father is an oily lying weasel who is sex-addicted to a skanky nut
I wonder how the people who actually thought he was presidential material are feeling right about now..... both of them.
I think you had it right the first time. There is no God in their lives but self; which, IMHO, leads to a lot of heinous behavior.
She enabled him...
John Edwards thought he was Bobby Kennedy look alike. He thought he was really cool. I ALWAYS thought he was a little weasel. Then when he was “grooming” himself before a TV show... the way he was carrying on about combing his hair etc.. wow... made me sick to my stomach. That man is evil. How he treated his sick wife who stood by him and then he can look his daughter and his little children in the eye?????????????/ Evil. As for his girlfriend... they deserve each other.
I feel sad for Elizabeth and her children. How it must make the daughter sick to even look at her father.
Edwards is not on trial for being a scumbag. He is on trial for converting campaign funds to personal use.
The charges are dubious. He solicited money from some rich people to pay off Rielle Hunter. He could easily have written the check to Rielle Hunter himself, but then Elizabeth Edwards would have noticed the missing money.
The whole thing rests on the idea that covering up the affair was in fact a campaign expense because Edwards was more electable if people didn't know about it. That's really a stretch. Essentially, they are trying to interpret the law to say that a candidate can't solicit money for anything. That's not what the law says.
Let's say Edwards had urged a contributor to secretly give a million dollars to cancer research. (Extremely unlikely, but bear with me.) If someone could show that cancer survivors were more likely to vote for Edwards, would Edwards have thus solicited a campaign contribution because the donation increased the number of cancer survivors?
I am very much against stretching laws to apply where they should not.
According to a report on the news last night, she’s even providing legal assistance to the defense team...she’s a law school grad...
so much for accountability in their family.
Here she is trying to "cash in" and take full advantage of her own son's death, milking every sympathy vote they could get. This was low enough for a barf alert. Elizabeth Edwards confronts Ann Coulter
that is right out of the movie Damage from 1992 where when Miranda Richards (character) finds that Jeremy Irons has been having an affair with their son's fiancee Juliette Binoche thru a brutal discovery...she does precisely that as she crumbles in despair..."what I'm not good enough anymore?"
I know that Ms Edwards was known to be a harsh woman but I'll give her a pass on that one.
But I mean...couldn't any woman just look at that vain peacock and realize he had to be either a cheater or a homosexual..
The damage is generational. The children of divorce often suffer poverty and need, and are wounded with a misplaced sense of unworthiness which infects and distorts their relationships as men and women, fathers and mothers.
I don’t understand how the daughter can sit there and support her father through this, after the way he deceived her sick mother with a bimbo, and brought this all down on them. The only reason I can think of is that she’s got dollar signs in her eyes, and doesn’t want to disown the old man for fear of losing out on any inheritance she might get.
I agree with you...I have sympathy for her obvious pain and anguish even if she was known to be something of a harridan.
Whatever she learned that day must have pushed her over the edge...hard stuff.
I do not condone cheating..have been faithful to one woman for many years now which is about character more than easy habit for guys like me...best to wait to get married and get over all that...so you aren't always left wondering
But when I grew up in the South...men of means as a rule cheated with willing women...the women might be lower class or bored country club wives
But folks were more discreet...no pregnancies...nothing public and even if the wife found out or suspected there was always effort to try to keep from shaming her (or him for that matter too)
more decorum about it....
now even though i think GenX and Y white men cheat much less ...when they do there is no discretion as much...it's clumsy like tabloid TMZ stuff
hard to explain but things are far different now
of all my married pals I know only two men who cheat and one woman..and her’s is an open marriage
yet in my dad's day in Mississippi....I'd wager around half of business owning and professional class men cheated...I would actually meet folks who would tell me my dad was one of the few men they knew who did not...course he had married Miss Mississippi....men cheat on pretty women too though and often with less pretty lovers
maybe I am just insulated out here in past suburban Nashville ...
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