Posted on 08/06/2008 4:55:06 PM PDT by Phantom Lord
Dems call on Edwards to address affair rumors
RALEIGH -- Former Sen. John Edwards has a deadline to save his spot on the national stage. With just two weeks before their national convention, a number of Democrats are saying Edwards needs to publicly address anonymously sourced National Enquirer stories that have claimed he had an affair with a campaign worker and fathered her baby.
Democrats gather in Denver on Aug. 25 and Edwards, as the 2004 vice presidential nominee and a presidential candidate who won delegates this year, ordinarily would be locked in as a speaker.
Instead prominent Democrats say convention organizers will try to avoid the lingering questions if Edwards himself doesn't talk.
"He absolutely does have to (resolve it). If it's not true, he has to issue a stronger denial," said Gary Pearce, the Democratic strategist who ran Edwards' 1998 Senate race. "It's a very damaging thing. ... The big media has tried to be responsible and handle this with kid gloves, but it's clearly getting ready to bust out. If it's not true, he's got to stand up and say, 'This is not true. That is not my child and I'm going to take legal action against the people who are spreading these lies.' It's not enough to say, 'That's tabloid trash.'"
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Kid gloves? Kid gloves? The “responsible media” have “handled” things by ignoring the story, unlike the toe-tapper.
MSM...nothing to see here...move along etc.
Funny how this comes the day the photos break? What is there to say? His wife is sick and he is so concerned that he couldn’t help but make a baby with someone else!
I wasn't aware Edwards had issued ANY KIND of denial to date. I haven't heard boo from this dork.
Fun ...
Well, not surprisingly, they are saying the photos are Photoshopped.
Wait til the photos of him in the hotel running for the men’s room have him in the same shirt.
Eventually he will have to own up.
The child’s middle name: Quinn. Anyone know if if it is an Edwards’ family name?
The daily Kos banned a blogger that wrote about the affair.
I’ve Been Banned At DailyKos Because Of John Edwards
http://stranahan.com/
Will he have the Spitzer moment in front of a TV camera with his terminally ill wife at his side?
Cry me a river denial?
I suppose a mass sending of “congratulations on the new arrival” greeting cards to Mr. Edwards would be inappropriate?
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