Posted on 04/21/2011 2:46:44 PM PDT by presidio9
Considering the source, we do have to take this news with a gigantic grain of salt, but the National Enquirer (via the Daily Mail) is reporting that scandal-maker John Edwards is really down and out. Sadly, it's not really so hard to believe though. I mean, he'd have to be completely dead inside not to be depressed about the state of his life right now -- even if he did create a good number of his woes.
I really want to be mad at the guy. To say he deserves everything he gets. But I just can't. And I hope this news about his depression and using heavy drinking to cope isn't true.
Edwards is facing the possibility of a criminal trial over campaign finance violations connected to his payments to his lover and baby mama Rielle Hunter. A close friend tells the Enquirer that Edwards has lost 20 pounds, is a "broken spirit" who is drinking to escape reality, and has said he would rather kill himself than go to jail.
That's really awful sounding but not all that unrealistic seeing the hideous choices Edwards has made and been through as a consequence -- including cheating on his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth Edwards, getting caught and labeled a disgrace, losing any professional political footing he had, conceiving a child through that affair with Rielle Hunter, trying to cover all that up, most likely via illegal means, and then grieving with his children when Elizabeth ultimately died from breast cancer.
However, for the sake of all four of his children, even if Edwards does feel this distraught, I hope he will seek help, man up, and take his lickings -- even if that means jail time. After all, an incarcerated father is still better than no father, especially since he can serve his time and make anew once he gets out. This is his only chance to make good on the gigantic mistakes he has made and the hurt he has dealt to his remaining family members.
In any case, I do feel for the guy -- even if it's just a smidgen. I'm sure he never dreamed his selfish, slutty actions would create the massive devastation they have.
Then again, if this whole thing is totally made up, and John Edwards is really partying and carrying on with the ladies -- then screw him, I take it all back!
DEMOCRAT candidate . . . ha . . his “stuff” is just part of the resume of the Democratic candidate.
John Edwards made a living claiming to commune with women’s dead babies, saying that the babies were crying for justice against whoever Edwards wanted to sue. Then he runs for office as an insanely pro-abortion candidate. I can’t imagine a man more unworthy of the lowest pits of Hell.
They don't provide hair blow dryers to the inmates?
That was mean........
He needs to take a stop at beauty solon before he takes his own life...if he is really serious about it.
“Considering the source, we do have to take this news with a gigantic grain of salt, but the National Enquirer”
Looks like cafemom is a libtard. The National Enquirer got it right about the scumbag edwards last time. The comments at the site are pretty brutal to the pretty boy. hehe
On the risky assumption that this story about John Edwards is true, I have to state that although I cannot take pleasure in another person’s depression I have little sympathy for Edwards because his problems are all of his own making. Edwards made choices of his own free will and they were all bad. If he has to go to prison, so be it. His drinking to ‘escape his ‘pain’’ is another bad choice. He doesn’t seem to learn and John Edwards certainly doesn’t seem willing to confess, repent and face the (secular) punishment for his mis-deeds. That indicates a severe lack of character and integrity so I really can’t get too concerned about John Edward’s state of mind right now. He made his bed....
His dance card will be full!
It ain’t pretty when the false front of a total phony who once rode high in the minds of much of the public is finally exposed.
Which is a life lesson that a certain other Democrat politician with a manufactured persona might be well advised to keep in mind.
I don’t feel sorry at all for the ‘Breck girl’.
I do feel kinda sorry for the gullible imbeciles who fell for his BS.
Only by fools.
I’m with John on this one,about killing himself rather than face prison time.Prison must really be a rotten environment and no place for a pampered lawyer.Why waste the space when there are really dangerous criminals who need locking up.Do it John..just do it!!!
I thought the world population was in the 7 billion range now . . . :)
>Amazing that he was considered a viable Presidential candidate as recently as 2008.<
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Why is it amazing? We were even willing to put Bambi, who cannot identify himself, in the WH.
I don’t feel sorry for them. They make me angry. Quite a few of those gullible imbeciles can vote.
<< To me, he was always the biggest sleaze of all. >>
Sleaze. Exactly the word I use for him.
Actually, exactly the word I’ve ALWAYS used for him.
He cheated on his wife before and after her diagnosis, he destroyed the lives and practices of countless good doctors depriving many people of their chosen source of medical care and he’s lied all his life about who he is, what he stands for and what he believes. There is no pain so great I cannot find him worthy of it and I don’t regret feeling that way.
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