Posted on 08/10/2008 9:01:35 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrats moved Saturday to staunch 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 Barack Obama as its White House candidate just over two weeks away, Democrats sought to minimize the scandal 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," Wolfson told Fox News.
Edwards, a North Carolina senator before he joined the presidential race in 2004, went public with his long-rumored affair on ABC television late Friday, conceding that it went on as he prepared his White House run and while his wife was being treated for breast cancer.
Edwards, 54, apologized 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 Saturday her family is seeking a paternity test from Edwards.
Edwards is married to Elizabeth Edwards, 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 website that her husband told her in 2006 of the affair, saying that it had been painful but that it was a private issue.
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US Democrats, eh. Isn't that like referring to US Americans?
Oh good. Well, I guess we can all back off now, folks. Everybody does it.
Edwards, 54, apologized profusely
I don't how profuse it was, but it was certainly nauseatingly insincere and calculating.
.... admitting that life on the campaign trail had made him "increasingly egocentric and narcissistic."
We thought it wasn't possible for anyone to be more egocentric and narcissistic than Johnny. But clearly he proved us wrong once again.
Oh good. Well, I guess we can all back off now, folks. Everybody does it.
Edwards, 54, apologized profusely
I don't how profuse it was, but it was certainly nauseatingly insincere and calculating.
.... admitting that life on the campaign trail had made him "increasingly egocentric and narcissistic."
We thought it wasn't possible for anyone to be more egocentric and narcissistic than Johnny. But clearly he proved us wrong once again.
Hey everybody is getting their mistress pregnant while their wife is undergoing cancer treatment. eeeerrr right?
The democrats once again trying to define deviancy down. However, its not ordinary for VP candidate, whose wife had cancer, to have a continued affiar convered up by the liberal MSM.
Keeping it in their pants?
Wolfson sounds exactly like the late Roy Cohn.
“We have unrealistic expectations for people.”
No, we have unrealistic expectations of Democrats. They are amoral, and will whine and offer all kinds of rationalizations when get caught behaving like Democrats.
Wolfson parrots the party talking points that they bring out every time someone with a D after their name gets caught. Since he is in the Clinton camp, he is forced to make these silly excuses because Billy Clinton's sleazy history.
“Edwards, 54, apologized profusely”
Horse hockey. He offered a short statement, concluding with a “that’s all I have to say on the subject”. Only a Democrat who has the news media doing CYA for him could get away with this.
The American public should make sure the Edwards, the Democrats, and the news media don’t get away with this.
Having Democrats lecture us on morality is like having Bill Clinton lecture on marital fidelity.
Sad, but true.
Very few people, however, are stupid enough to have an affair while running for President.
Reporters were following him around struggling to find something interesting to write about. Opposition research teams for candidates in both parties were digging for any dirt they could find. Did he really think no one would notice? Does the name Gary Hart ring any bells?
Setting aside all of the issues of morality and lack of character that arise from having an affair while your wife is dying of cancer, Edwards' affair while running for president raises serious issues of stupidity, narcissism and utter lack of self control. These are not qualities most people look for in a president.
IF the affair was over is ‘06, why is he visiting the woman now in ‘08 and leaving through the back door at 2am?
John & Elizabeth must have a “open” marriage.
“As I have been saying for the last five years, there are ‘two Americas,’” Edwards alleged. “In one of these Americas I am the people’s tribune fighting for social justice. In the other, I am a conniving liar.”
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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Well he can agree to a paternity test knowing full well that Reille won't agree to one.
What a sleeze bag....
John Edwards’ affair while his wife is battling cancer is a microcosm of what the Democrats are doing to the country -
They SCREW around while the country is hurting economically.
Excuses, excuses.
If one can stand looking at some of the lie-beral sites one can see how many reasons they can come up with as to why it’s ‘natural’, ‘reasonable’ and ‘excusable’ behavior for Edwards. It’s really incredible, especially the ‘men have certain needs’ excuse. Can’t they just say, “No”?
There’s low down, and then there’s LOW DOWN. When they use the sacrificial donations of campaign supporters in order to reward and bribe their “conquests”, then they are CRIMINALS. Not to mention, when your spouse has a terminal illness, you have the human decency to accept reality and use some common sense. Thieves are also human, but they still go to jail for their crimes.
Were they actually *MEN*, then the answer should, and would be, *YES*. John Edwards isn't a *man* at all, he's a punk, a boy who never matured into real adulthood. Just like that other punk Billy Jeff Boy Clinton...
the infowarrior
Actually, it is only among other libertine Democrats that the values-free rule applies. That happens to only include about 30% of the US population. A person can’t get elected if the other 70% have written him/her off as a undependable sleaze. One would have thought that claiming to channel the thoughts of a dead fetus would have put paid to Edwards’ credibility, but then again if anything is printed in the newspaper, it is the horoscope. So they can have all the party-time they want, but even among themselves, in the privacy of their own hearts, they have to pay the price of illegitimacy and infidelity. It’s only the MSM, which has yet to pay its own price, which can barefacedly allege what is and what is not ‘a private matter’ and does or does not have moral consequences.
And that regime is steadily going down.
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