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The John Edwards Saga's New All-Time Record Low
Politics Daily ^ | September 20, 2009 | Mary C, Curtis

Posted on 09/20/2009 6:15:53 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

The ickiest detail in The New York Times story on John Edwards? Well, according to the paper, a book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young says the one-time senator, one-time Democratic vice presidential candidate once promised Rielle Hunter they would marry on a New York City rooftop with the Dave Matthews Band making a special guest appearance. (While bands love publicity, I can imagine the DMB cringing at this particular association.)

If I knew my husband was making plans with a girlfriend for wedding No. 2 – after my death – he could cancel any festivities because he would surely be the first one to die; I would kill him!

I've criticized Elizabeth Edwards in the past for writing and touring and telling almost all in a book and on Oprah. But hey, whatever it takes to get you through another day married to John Edwards. You want to open a furniture store in Chapel Hill? Why not? You're a wife, a mother and you're battling cancer with the albatross named John hanging around your neck.

I talked with John Edwards in a Charlotte, N.C., appearance shortly after the Kerry-Edwards ticket came up short in the 2004 presidential election. Elizabeth was undergoing treatment for cancer and he was worried and concerned. Yet even when a recurrence of her illness gave him an out – and who knew how much he really needed it – in his quest to win the 2008 presidential nomination, he still didn't take it.

A successful politician has to believe he or she is the best person for the job. But John Edwards actually thought he could – with the help of complicit friends -- hide a truckload of secrets while pursuing the most public job in the world.

(Was he really trying to rig a paternity test?) Maybe now that everyone knows what pure ambition looks like, a minor-league hypocrite like S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford will stop insisting that God wants him to remain in office.

When adults act like idiots, it's the children who suffer. So, to Edwards' three surviving children with Elizabeth, add a 19-month-old girl who doesn't yet realize what the story is. Right now, she's the lucky one.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: johnedwards; riellehunter; scandals
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1 posted on 09/20/2009 6:15:54 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
(Was he really trying to rig a paternity test?)

Didn't Clinton do (or supposedly do) the same thing?!

2 posted on 09/20/2009 6:21:20 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (http://koreanforniancooking.blogspot.com/)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Oh Lord!

parsy, who says the best thing is if you wind up single, get a guitar and leave the women alone


3 posted on 09/20/2009 6:23:46 PM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
But John Edwards actually thought he could – with the help of complicit friends -- hide a truckload of secrets while pursuing the most public job in the world.

Well, it worked for Obama...

4 posted on 09/20/2009 6:23:46 PM PDT by bt_dooftlook (ACORN = Another Communist-Overrun Rats-Nest)
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To: bt_dooftlook

Sadly, it did, didn’t it? :(


5 posted on 09/20/2009 6:25:05 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

This little tidbit was reported in the NY Post during the campaign long before it became common knowledge.


6 posted on 09/20/2009 6:25:13 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
The Godfather is not happy with Edwards>
7 posted on 09/20/2009 6:25:20 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Why are we even bringing up Edwards anymore? His credibility is shot, he’s old news. We have bigger fish to fry than this guy. I don’t give a cat’s yack about him anymore!


8 posted on 09/20/2009 6:35:50 PM PDT by swatbuznik
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To: bt_dooftlook
With the help of the press the public was kept in the dark.
9 posted on 09/20/2009 6:36:32 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: swatbuznik

And yet, you took the bandwidth to post, LOL!

I plan on posting a story about him wherever I find one. He is scum.

And yes, there IS bigger scum and bigger fish to fry, but I want this guy remembered for what he is. An ambulance chasing Democrat LOSER.

But, that’s just me. Carry on! :)


10 posted on 09/20/2009 6:38:39 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Pray for the little girl.
Perhaps she can overcome the deficient gene pools of her parents and become a fine contributor to society.


11 posted on 09/20/2009 6:41:19 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ambulance-chaser and skirt-chaser.

Add failed liberal politician.


12 posted on 09/20/2009 6:43:02 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I plan on posting a story about him wherever I find one. He is scum.

Thanks for the reminder of the methods of a POS like Edwards, especially when he is considered v.p. and p. stock for the Democrat Crime Syndicate.

We need constant reminders of him, Spitzer, Blago, etc., etc.,...all the way down to lowlife mayors like Kwame Kilpatrick...as these 'rat members/enablers/crickets-chirping, co-conspirators are not fit to be dog catchers.

13 posted on 09/20/2009 6:50:20 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: PGalt

Agreed. WHO elects these people? Even the LibTards I know think they’re all scum.


14 posted on 09/20/2009 6:58:30 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Another Democrat narcissist.

15 posted on 09/20/2009 7:14:26 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I knew the kid was his when I saw the video of her first steps...chasing an ambulance down the street.


16 posted on 09/20/2009 7:15:12 PM PDT by festusbanjo (Since when should I have to say sorry for calling a liar a liar?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Even though Edwards has reduced himself to complete irrelevancy, I still enjoy any story that kicks him. He’s a scum and deserves all the scorn that can be heaped upon him.


17 posted on 09/20/2009 7:22:28 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( I am a proud citizen of GlennBeckistan. Kneel before me, comrades. ))))
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Caligula must be a hero in Washington D.C...


18 posted on 09/20/2009 7:33:17 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“...he could cancel any festivities because he would surely be the first one to die; I would kill him!”

LOL!


19 posted on 09/20/2009 10:41:21 PM PDT by jocon307 ( We're dealing with COMMUNISTS here, folks!)
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To: Tamar1973
Yes, he did it to “prove” that he was Chelsea's “father” not Web Hubbell.
20 posted on 09/21/2009 8:53:47 AM PDT by HenpeckedCon (1/20/13 - Obama's Last Day!)
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