Posted on 08/09/2008 3:49:19 PM PDT by Red Steel
BARACK Obama's supporters have moved to stem the damage after one-time party star and presidential hopeful John Edwards admitted having an affair during his White House run as his wife battled cancer.
With the party's national convention to officially crown Senator Obama as its White House candidate just over two weeks away, Democrats sought to minimise the John Edwards affair as a personal matter for the Edwards family.
"We have unrealistic expectations for people. John Edwards like the rest of us is only human," said Howard Wolfson, a former senior official for the rival presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
"The truth is a lot of ordinary, average Americans have affairs," Mr Wolfson said on Fox News.
Mr Edwards, a North Carolina senator before he joined the presidential race in 2004, went public with his long-rumoured affair on ABC television yesterday, conceding that it went on as he prepared his White House run and while his wife Elizabeth was being treated for breast cancer.
Mr Edwards, 54, apologised profusely, admitting that life on the campaign trail had made him "increasingly egocentric and narcissistic".
He denied, however, fathering the six-month-old baby of 42-year-old filmmaker Rielle Hunter, although according to reports her family is seeking a paternity test from Mr Edwards.
Elizabeth Edwards is a popular figure due to her courageous fight against her cancer, which has been judged by doctors to be incurable since it returned in 2007.
She wrote on the Daily Kos that her husband told her in 2006 of the affair, saying that it had been painful but that it was a private issue.
Senator Obama, on a week-long holiday in Hawaii, praised Mr Edwards as "a great champion of working people". But
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"The Edwards family indicated that they probably wouldn't be attending the convention," Senator Obama said.
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Yes...IF he was a real man.
yep and all those like clintin agreed with him. Sad times huh when the President of the United States is the low caliber of a clintin.
rielle’s kid has one thing over obama: a birth certificate.
Did you notice that this was released just as Rush was going off air on Friday? Coincidence...I think not.
How many soiled ‘drawses’ do you think she has in her bag?
“How many soiled ‘drawses’ do you think she has in her bag?”
Enough to get her up to the steps of the White House, at least!
These next few weeks will be delicious... ;)
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