Posted on 08/13/2009 5:43:10 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Oh my: yes, John Edwards was and is indeed the father of the baby, Frances, born to Rielle Hunter. That, at least, is what the National Enquirer is reporting.
Yes, really, a US Senator was not only cheating upon his cancer stricken wife, he then had a child by his mistress and ran to be US President while covering the matter up. He even got one of his aides to make claim to paternity.
At the moment of course we don't actually know that John Edwards is the father of Reille Hunter's baby: we only have one report of a "secret DNA test" and it's in National Enquirer. Not, we usually assume, the most accurate of media outlets.
However, there's one thing we do need to remember, National Enquirer was the one outlet that did in fact pursue the whole John Edwards and Rielle Hunter story in the first place. Don't you remember what it was like back then? Major, mainstream, outlets simply wouldn't touch the story at all, it was as if someone had burped at the dinner table. Embarassing, something we just don't mention.
This, assuming the story is true, really has to be the end of John Edwards' political career. It's not the sex and certainly not the child, it's the cover up afterwards. Simply inconceivable that he would even attempt to return to politics after he'd got one of his aides to take the fall for this.
Hopefully.
hmmmmmmmmmm..........
Would this possibly be called...
“tart reform”?
I feel like I have to take a shower every time that slimeball appears on television.
He is a sorry sack of s**t. Rielle probably isn’t much better, but the baby doesn’t deserve any of this. Imagine how she will feel when she’s old enough to read how much her “father of the year” wanted her.
The authors of the orginal newspapers of our nation are rolling in their graves.
Now The Breck Girl can have two families - one for each of his “Americas”.
Whatever her motivations, she has a pretty little daughter now. Edwards will just have to deal with that.
a big, “Uh, DUH!” moment.
Anyone have that Eswards family Christmas card, the one with the mistress peeking in the window?
Anyone have that Edwards family Christmas card, the one with the mistress peeking in the window?
Why would she abort not only a major meal ticket, but connection to ‘fame’ (no matter how shameful.) Look at what people do for fame on those reality shows. And well the money? John is fantastically wealthy. She dotted her i s and crossed her t s on this one. Girlfriend wasn’t going to abort. No how. No way. It would have been like burning a winning lottery ticket.
Whatever the motives though another child lives and THAT is a thing of beauty. :-D.
hahaha!
For him it'll eventually be a resume enhancer.
Really, Rielle?
That was my point.
Little Frances Quinn is quite pretty already, like all the innocents.
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