This article contains new-agey, self-helpspeak, & astrological details to add to the mix. Provided this journalist is on the level, I (for one) am more confused than before.
Three of her webisodes are available at the link.
Posted on 08/09/2008 5:42:32 PM PDT by lainie
A seeker and a New Age spiritualist, John Edwards's other woman believed she could help him make history.
The first time I laid eyes on Rielle Hunter, I could tell she was a story. She had frizzy blond hair with DARK roots, wore bright nail polish and moved like someone who knew how to work a room. She was on a cramped commuter flight and she was flirting with a candidate for president of the United States. It was July 7, 2006. I'd been sent to Iowa to write a piece on John Edwards. We were on our way to Des Moines, where I would be the only national reporter following him around the state for two days. From a few rows back, I tried to observe Edwards before the plane took off. Most of the other passengers seemed to have no idea who Edwards was. But this blond woman, putting away her bags, was visibly captivated by him. She tried repeatedly to engage him in conversation, but he seemed uninterested in talking. How the mighty have fallen, I thought. As John Kerry's running mate in 2004, Edwards had his own campaign bubble around him all the time; now he had to deal with strangers who flirt with him on planes. Of course, she wasn't a stranger. Edwards now admits that he had an extramarital affair with her. But at the time I had no reason to suspect there was anything between them.
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This article contains new-agey, self-helpspeak, & astrological details to add to the mix. Provided this journalist is on the level, I (for one) am more confused than before.
Three of her webisodes are available at the link.
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Always amazing how blow destroys a person’s looks.
What I found interesting is that Edwards & his group PAID her $100,000 (hush) money to make 4 insignificant vids.
Oh my... she reminds me of Camilla Parker Bowles.
What she lacks in looks she makes up for in pheromones.
“I struck up a conversation with the woman at the next event, as we waited outside. She told me her name and asked me what my astrological sign was, which I thought was a little unusual. I told her. She smiled, and began telling me her life story: how she was working as a documentary-film maker, living with a friend in South Orange, N.J., but how she’d previously had “many lives.” She’d worked, she said, as an actress and as a spiritual adviser. She was fiercely devoted to astrology and New Age spirituality. She’d been a New York party girl, she’d been married and divorced, she’d been a seeker and a teacher and was a firm believer in the power of truth.”
Truth? Nah, truth doesn’t matter to her.
something about her reminds me of Edwards himself.
I’m struck by these ‘right out of the gate’ characterization that this unseemly, pushy and outrageous woman lured him into this illicit thing. John the victim.
Poor wee John...how was he supposed to stop it???
I’m struck by these ‘right out of the gate’ characterization that this unseemly, pushy and outrageous woman lured him into this illicit thing. John the victim.
Poor wee John...how was he supposed to stop it???
“Her latest project was John Edwards. Edwards, she said, was an old soul who had barely tapped into any of his potential. The real John Edwards, she believed, was a brilliant, generous, giving man who was driven by competing impulses—to feed his ego and serve the world. If he could only tap into his heart more, and use his head less, he had the power to be a “transformational leader” on par with Gandhi and Martin Luther King. “He has the power to change the world,” she said.
I had been nodding and sipping my wine through all this. “Do you talk about this stuff with the candidate?” I asked. “All the time,” Rielle replied. “I'll lecture him on it when he's getting too much up in here,” she said, gesturing toward her head. “He'll see a look on my face and say, ‘Yes, I know, Rielle, “Power of Now” says …’ “ Rielle wanted me to know all these things because she wanted me to write about them. For the past five months, she said, she'd been traveling with Edwards with a video crew, capturing him in a variety of settings, public and private. She had cut her footage together into a series of short films, “Webisodes” that would run on the Internet. She hoped that with her unique eye for Edwards’s true potential, she could show the world the real John Edwards and, in the process, help him to become the better version of himself. She wondered if I might be interested in writing a story. “Sure,” I said, “if you let me see the films, we can talk about that.”
She does resemble Camilla physically and in mindset.
NUTS too.
The problem for Edwards is that everyone can see the real victim here, the innocent baby, who he refuses to claim (even though it is glaringly obvious that it is his).
WOOF-WOOF! Throw that girl a MilkBone!!!
She was “in love” with someone in the late spring of 2007, according to the article.
That contradicts Edwards’ statement it ended in 2006, and so does not foreclose the chance Edwards was a father (again).
The timing of that “Father of the Year” in 2007 was sure spot on.
I was reading where Edwards couldn’t believe he was
found out because he had convinced himself that he
was “special”.
That’s the problem with Washington. Once there, they
become intoxicated with power. They begin to believe
their handlers and groupies.
Fame is the mind killer.
If you follow the timeline in the Newsweek story, you see that Rielle told the reporter in MID-2007 (!!) that she was “in love”, impliedly with Edwards, from the context.
This obviously doesn’t jive with Edwards’ claim that the affair occurred in 2006.
It DOES jive with the fact that Rielle got pregnant in mid-2007.
That perennial backdrop to blazing passion and unbridled lust. Now it all makes sense. The night, the wine, the twinkling lights of Army Post Road...
They didn't get their money's worth on those videos, either. I like how he said he wants for the country to see who he really is, but "I don't know what the result of that will be." heh
Silly John. We know you're not a plastic Ken doll, y'all. You're a My Pretty Pony.
>>>something about her reminds me of Edwards himself.
The intellectually vapid look.
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