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!
SHEEN/EDWARDS 2012
Hey, a guy can dream can’t he?
I still think I would rather have this guy as the President than Obama.
Just swipe some canned fruit and bread yeast from the kitchen, put it in a bottle or latex glove, shake well, and in a week or so you'll have some nasty hooch. Taste doesn't matter. ;-)
I'm skipping dinner now.
Considering it was the National Enquirer which broke the story about The Breck Girl's affair and baby, I find this paragraph more than a little bit condescending.
If Edwards is really down and out, it might mean he has a conscience after all.
He’s a low life lawyer who stole his wealth and then cheated on his wife.
I have respect whatsoever for the man.
Hardly.
A conscience is about feeling bad about wronging others.
He’s feeling bad about the consequences he’s possibly going to suffer - himself. Not the suffering he’s inflicted on others.
We don’t know that for sure, though I confess you’re probably right.
Dead on with all five points. I would find it far easier to find sympathy for Bernie Madoff.
Before you oft yourself John, donate your hair...
When he was a practicing shyster he used to channel the views of dead people to persuade jurors to agree to million dollar awards. It seems he already has contacts “on the other side.”
edwards was dead on the inside a long time ago. Hopefully, G-d will work a miracle in his life and regenerate his heart. Sympathy for him? None. Pray for him, yes.
He does make one wonder about the people of NC.
Lol!!
The writer of this article knows nothing about suffering consequences. I hope he sinks to the lowest depths where hopefully he finally sees his true character....
and then gathers enough strength to change. I doubt that he will though. People like him only blame others.
I would feel sorry for the poor guy that would have clean up the mess.
Then again, they could just let some Coyotes and a few Vultures clean it up the “green” way.
Hard to argue with that.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, December 23, 1862.
Dear Fanny
It is with deep grief that I learn of the death of your kind and brave Father; and, especially, that it is affecting your young heart beyond what is common in such cases. In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once. The memory of your dear Father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer and holier sort than you have known before.
Please present my kind regards to your afflicted mother.
Your sincere friend
A. Lincoln
Avoid bending over as well!
Naaaa....CELL BLOCK 3, YOUR TURN!
The lament of all those that have gotten caught.
I don't care if John Edwards lives or dies.
He came too damned close to putting one over on the American public.
Although, I'd say a childish, vain, egotistical, skirt chasing trial lawyer would probably be better than the socialistic, scamming, moslim, treasonous, mohametan POS that we have now.
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