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Edwards urged to address baby story
News&Observer.com ^ | August 7, 2008 | Mark Johnson

Posted on 08/07/2008 3:31:55 AM PDT by NCDragon

RALEIGH - Former Sen. John Edwards might have to move quickly to save his spot on the national stage.

With two weeks before their national convention, several prominent Democrats are saying Edwards must publicly address anonymously sourced National Enquirer stories that claim he had an affair with a campaign worker and fathered her baby.

Democrats gather in Denver on Aug. 25 and Edwards, as the 2004 vice presidential nominee and a presidential candidate who won delegates this year, ordinarily would be a speaker.

Instead some Democrats say convention organizers will try to avoid the lingering questions if Edwards himself doesn't talk.

"He absolutely does have to [resolve it]. If it's not true, he has to issue a stronger denial," said Gary Pearce, the Democratic strategist who ran Edwards' 1998 Senate race. "It's a very damaging thing. ... The big media has tried to be responsible and handle this with kid gloves, but it's clearly getting ready to bust out. If it's not true, he's got to stand up and say, 'This is not true. That is not my child and I'm going to take legal action against the people who are spreading these lies.' It's not enough to say, 'That's tabloid trash.' "

(Excerpt) Read more at newsobserver.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrat; democrats; edwards; johnedwards; riellehunter
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To: bert
He is a lawyer and has no integrity by definition.

I know several lawyers who have integrity. However, none of them channel in the courtroom.

21 posted on 08/07/2008 5:07:55 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Niteranger68

From the minute the NE broke this story, I NEVER had a doubt. They do not print something like this without having a boatload to support it, especially against a high profile ambulance chaser.

I just hope he continues to ignore it. His facial expression in the press conference was priceless. He started to say “I don’t know what you’re talking about” and quickly changed to “tabloid trash”. Someone please link to that presser!!


22 posted on 08/07/2008 5:13:58 AM PDT by King Hawk
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To: NCDragon

“Anonymously sourced?” You’ve got to be kidding! Named National Inquirer reporters shoving cameras and microphones in the face of an petrified and dazed Edwards is hardly anonymous.


23 posted on 08/07/2008 5:16:16 AM PDT by Juan Medén
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To: from occupied ga

Lawyer. Liberal. Liar.

While these are NOT synonymous terms, their combination
is toxic. 3 strikes and you’re out, Pony Boy!


24 posted on 08/07/2008 5:21:54 AM PDT by DrC
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To: Thrownatbirth

How about “That’s really, really tabloid trash” ?

“That’s Democrat trash”


25 posted on 08/07/2008 5:42:35 AM PDT by totallyFREE
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To: NCDragon
Oh, he'll have a presser alright. With his wife (dressed in black and with no make up on) and darling children at his side. Or maybe he'll have Elizabeth take the questions and he'll be the one dressed in black at her side.

It will be Clinton redux - "Mistakes were made. This is a private matter. Our family needs to work this out in private. I'm consulting with my spiritual advisor, the Rev. Jackson and so on."

The DBM and Dem sycophants will eat it up.

26 posted on 08/07/2008 5:46:58 AM PDT by randita
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To: NCDragon

The pictures have been released haven’t they? I think he is going to have a hard time denying it now. I think they(the MSM)is trying to say the pictures were photo shopped but that is easy enough to prove or disprove.


27 posted on 08/07/2008 5:47:44 AM PDT by calex59
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To: NCDragon

Just at about the time this nice Christmas pic was taken, Johnny had to be up to something with his little missus in the woodshed.

Look at the nice snow outside the window... uh...

28 posted on 08/07/2008 5:57:35 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: NCDragon

“The big media has tried to be responsible and handle this with kid gloves,”

If it had been a Republican, ANY Republican, it would be on the news 24 hours a day, until the Republican resigned.


29 posted on 08/07/2008 6:13:40 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Bon mots

Good job mots,
now that’s funny.


30 posted on 08/07/2008 6:15:08 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: King Hawk
“Tabloid trash” describes John Edwards perfectly!
31 posted on 08/07/2008 6:18:12 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (When it comes to Obama, just keep the change.)
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To: NCDragon

Could have happened to a nicer guy but I really do feel for his wife (even though she too has her faults)...


32 posted on 08/07/2008 7:44:33 AM PDT by eureka! (McCain....I guess.)
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To: Ezekiel

So, the baby of Silky Pony is “My Little Pony?”


33 posted on 08/07/2008 9:28:20 AM PDT by Chucky is a girlie man
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To: NCDragon
The buzz here in Chapel Hill is that Edwards is holding off from denying or admitting the child is his because of the tax issues surrounding the payments made to Hunter and Young. Also, Edwards and his financial friends may be trapped by the Spitzer money-laundering laws.

BTW, Elizabeth is as mean and nasty a lawyer as HRC. She may want his nut encased in a Lucite cube for her desk ... with the chainsaw marks visible.

34 posted on 08/07/2008 9:44:51 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

“nut” = “nuts”


35 posted on 08/07/2008 9:46:04 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: Ezekiel
What if mom's a RINO? Introducing Rarity the Unicorn


36 posted on 08/07/2008 10:41:33 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: randita

i don’t know that i agree with you on this. I think his wife dying of cancer and being a beloved, respected & sympathetic public figure (whether you agree or not with her politics) makes the outcome of this for Edwards very different than a Clinton story. I don’t think anyone will have sympathy for him, once he is forced to admit he is the father (and of course he is).

Elizabeth changes the equation. She makes this “baby-momma thing” quite sickening, even to deadhead Dems who make excuses for their own (”no one is perfect”) and then slaughter a Republican for identical behavior (”he’s a pig and a hypocrite”).


37 posted on 08/07/2008 10:50:36 PM PDT by adopt4Christ (The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.)
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To: adopt4Christ

Yes, I agree that Elizabeth and her cancer diagnosis makes her a much more sympathetic figure than Hillary was.

But I still think that if John Edwards does a Bill Clinton imitation and even cries to boot, the press and Democrats will be eating out of his hand. That’s just the way they are.


38 posted on 08/08/2008 5:05:48 AM PDT by randita
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To: randita

edwards has lost twice now, they won’t be so nice to him when they move in for the kill, but the feeding frenzy will never be the same as for a pubbie.


39 posted on 08/08/2008 5:07:20 AM PDT by tioga
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