Posted on 08/09/2008 7:42:59 AM PDT by notes2005
The family of John Edwards' former mistress, Rielle Hunter, is challenging the former senator to take a DNA paternity test after his claim that he did not father Hunter's six-month old child.
In the first reaction from Hunter's family, her younger sister Melissa told ABC News that Edwards should immediately follow through on his pledge to take a paternity test.
"I would challenge him to do so," the sister said. "Somebody must stand up and defend my sister," she said. "I wish that those involved would refrain from bad-mouthing my sister."
In his interview with ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff acknowledging the affair, Edwards said he knew the child was not his because of "the timing" of the pregnancy and the affair.
"I would welcome participating in a paternity test," Edwards said. "I'm only one side of the test, but I'm happy to participate in one."
Hunter left her Santa Barbara home earlier this week in advance of Edwards' ABC News interview.
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Gergen asked the question: Can you imagine for a moment what would happen if John Edwards were the dem nominee? He was pointing out that Edwards’ selfishness and hypocrisy could have irreparably harmed the party.
If only he were the nominee!!!
Paging Maury “You ARE the Father!” Povich...
Senator Edwards, have you met Senator Hart?
Looks like the Silk Phony is only 99.5% truthful.
:o/
If she's receiving competent legal advice then this will all be done.
There is spermicide in the reservoir tip of the prophylactic. She couldn’t have banked the ejaculate.
Bill Clinton?
You're incoherent. A John and his whore are moral equivalents.
Love the graphic! !
If he was the nominee the Dems could have her and the kid bumped off ...a phone call to Big Mo is all it takes
“He was pointing out that Edwards selfishness and hypocrisy could have irreparably harmed the party.
If only he were the nominee!!!”
The current nominee, Obama, has even worse defects!! And we ought to be paying increasing attention to them. I want to know a lot more about the recent departure of his “Muslim liason.”
Lying piece of reusable, recyclable, Earth friendly sack full of shiite, you know the kind they now sell at grocery stores for $0.99.
[Who is the guy in #9?]
Do you REALLY have to ask that? lol.
Apparently not...Lol....
There really are two Americas.
The left must really be piling on to her? I don’t feel bad for her, at 42yo a woman should know that sleeping with a married guy isn’t a good thing. Of course if she was looking for a meal ticket she picked a fine one. :) I say take the test now or slink away and never grace our TV screens again!
What I don’t understand is if the affair ended in 2006 what was he doing with her in the hotel just a couple of weeks ago? Did he just stop by for coffee and cake to say, “hey, hows tricks?” His and sadly his wife’s explanations just don’t cut the smell test.
First he betrays his wife and their children by creating another family, then he betrays his second family by express repudiation. He has, by Bill Clinton’s standards, a perfect score. Remember when Clinton blamed his philandering on his deceased mother? It gave him a score of 10 by defiling his marriage and fatherhoood by infidelity, and then defiling his dead mother’s image by deflecting his character flaws to her; leaving no woman in his life unbetrayed. I think Edwards is taking a serious run at unseating the Master of Rat Bastard-dom of the second millenium. You’ve come a long way, Grasshopper.
But what if she doesn’t want the tests?
Her family may not be speaking on her behalf.
please excuse my ignorance, but can somebody please explain to me why john edwards is known as the silky pony?
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