Posted on 08/08/2008 3:14:44 PM PDT by maccaca
Edwards: I Was "99 Percent Honest" [Byron York]
His just-released statement:
In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it. But being 99% honest is no longer enough.
I was and am ashamed of my conduct and choices, and I had hoped that it would never become public. With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006 and today I take full responsibility publicly. But that misconduct took place for a short period in 2006. It ended then. I am and have been willing to take any test necessary to establish the fact that I am not the father of any baby, and I am truly hopeful that a test will be done so this fact can be definitively established. I only know that the apparent father has said publicly that he is the father of the baby. I also have not been engaged in any activity of any description that requested, agreed to or supported payments of any kind to the woman or to the apparent father of the baby.
It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me that I am sorry, as it is inadequate to say to the people who love me that I am sorry. In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic. If you want to beat me up - feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help.
I have given a complete interview on this matter and having done so, will have nothing more to say.
ok- thats that - lets just MOVEON.org
That would make a great tagline.
whaat a load getting some poor schmuk to say he is the actual dad..gee how original ..right out of the southern belle book of tricks
We could have done without that detail.
Confidential to the Silky Pony: when taking full responsibility, do not use "But" as the very next word.
Hey democrat party slime.......why were you hiding out in that bathroom after a liason with this broad??? You are a piece of crap silk pony.
Was that part of that short term deal from 2006??? Go figure it.
“But being 99% honest is no longer enough.”
Priceless.
It’s the 1% that is hiding the other lies, silky.
It’s obvious that being outed as a heterosexual has taken its toll on Edwards.
That 1% sure gets blamed for a lot.
You are either honest or you are dishonest. There are no degrees of honesty. It’s like saying he was 99% unfaithful. You either are or you are not.
What a pig. Did his wife REALLY have cancer or was he only 99% honest there too?
Having sex with a young hottie or a cancer ridden middleaged woman............ what’s a guy gonna do? He’s only human. /s
What is he going to say when the paternity test show he is the father? Then he lied about his stupid timeline?
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