I’ve been a little busy but it seems that the National Enquirer (I feel a little dirty just typing that) has reported a story, now confirmed by Fox News (really need to wash my hands now), regarding an encounter former presidential candidate John Edwards had at a hotel with a woman they describe as his mistress and the mother of his child.
Here’s a little video on a reporter asking Edwards about it.
If this is true, it’s a real shame. His wife, Elizabeth, deserves better.
The LA Times has a rundown here on other blog reactions.
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What gets me that so much of the media tried to keep this quiet because it could hurt Obama! Edwards can now forget the VP job and Obama will have to look else where! http://xrl.us/okwke
If…and that’s a big if…Obama is the Democratic candidate he doesn’t really have to look long and hard. Hillary is THE ONE!
Mimi, how is it an IF Obama will be the candidate? I doubt this story is true, although you never know.
I hope that this story isn’t true, but I suspect that it is. There is a whole lotta smoke. Supporting evidence is dribbling out bit by bit in a concerted effort to increase the impact when the videotape inevitably emerges.
How unbelievably discouraging. John Edwards just needs to drop out of sight for awhile, while we ponder how much we love his wife Elizabeth and wait for this story to blow over.
Now can we PLEASE stop this garbage about how personal immorality is irrelevant to a person’s ability to lead? That was just a cover for Bill Clinton’s foibles, and an unconvincing one at that.
McCain seems a lot worse than Bill Clinton. He had numerous affairs and left his disabled wife for a rich woman two decades younger. Not coincidentally, the Republicans have suddenly shut up about “values voters” and “personal responsibility.” Exactly when did Democrats concede the moral high ground to the Republicans? And why?
Ian-
Mimi believes that some of the Obama superdelegates will collectively hit there heads and vote for Hillary in Denver. She is a PUMA who calls Obama “Barky” and thinks that anyone who supports him has been duped.
I agree with the French surrender monkeys on this issue. Who John Edwards has sex with is nobody’s business but his own. Such attempts to create scandal are intentionally manufactured so that citizens are distracted from discussing and debating real solutions to the problems that we face.
I suspect that during Roman times, the equivalent of our media in Rome, was still talking about scandals while the Barbarians were entering the City.
Reject media outlets that try to fill your mind with salacious garbage like the Edwards story. Turn off the TV (idiot box) cancel newspapers and magazines that publish crap like that, too.
Force the politicians and their media enablers to get back to subjects like: When will we withdraw from Iraq? When will we achieve energy independence? When is my job coming back from China?
Edwards is a has-been anyway. He did not even bother to run for re-election to the Senate, because he knew he would lose badly. He was as bad as Dan Qualye as a VP candidate, and worse still as presidential candidate.
He should go back to suing doctors and channelling dead girls.
(And to think I actually sent the scum-bag a symp[athy letter when he announced that his wife had cancer.)
Before posting this story, I checked around a number of places. I guess I wasn’t paying attention when earlier reports came out regarding this but this Slate story basically says that the press is ignoring it. And it’s up on HuffPo now.
According to article on google, Hunter, the woman in question has said the father of her child is Andrew Young who worked on the Edward campaign. Young has said this is true. He is 41, married and the father of 3…. Who knows….
Elizabeth Edwards is very ill. Edwards is not a factor in this year’s election unless the press makes it so. Mrs. Edwards has enough problems to deal with, so this would be a really good time for the press to exercise some good judgment and let this die.
“Who John Edwards has sex with is nobody’s business but his own. Such attempts to create scandal are intentionally manufactured so that citizens are distracted from
discussing and debating real solutions to the problems that we face.”
This argument is usually invoked when it is regarding a Dem… When it is a Republican, it is front page fodder… Ever since Clinton the media has felt the need to “make up for it” by ignoring Dems’s side action and shown the light on Republicans’ when they mess up.
What bothers me is not what he did, but how stupid it shows him to be… I mean, come on, does anyone, particularly someone in the media, think they won’t get caught? Idiot is what this has shown him to be. And notice that there is NEVER a denial… Remember kids: It is not the crime, it is the cover up!
I hope it’s not true, but since Edwards is one of the biggest Liberal Enlightened eletists who like to lecture everyone on how he is right and others are wrong, it won’t me.
I guess there are two Americas after all… One with a sick, loyal wife and daughter, and the other… a piece of ass and a love child hidden away. Way to treat BOTH families, Johnny-boy.
Actually, Don, Edwards has been on the short list for VP candidates.
As for Andrew Young - the only thing I’ve seen is that Hunter denied he was the father. Care to provide a link where she says differently?
Vivian…regarding link google John Edwards and read the article.
Vivian, what I’m trying to point out is that Mrs. Edwards doesn’t need her husband’s misdeeds thrown in her face in every newspaper and blog in the country when she is fighting cancer and very likely dying of it. If Edwards was on any list, he dropped off of it the moment the first tabloid article appeared, and it is just the responsible thing to do to let this drop quietly.
Tabor’s right. Even if you do believe that a candidate’s sex life shouldn’t disqualify him from office, having an affair while your wife is dying of cancer is going to be a serious character issue for a lot of people, including myself. Obama must have recognized immediately that for the sake of the Edwards family and for his own candidacy as well, there’s no way he can select Edwards as his running mate.
While I have tremendous sympathy for Elizabeth Edwards, I didn’t get the memo that this topic should not be discussed.
mij - I Googled and still haven’t found anything where Hunter says that Andrew Young is the father. In fact, I found the opposite.
At the bottom of the current Fox News story it says :
“Hunter has said that the father of her child is former Edwards campaign official Andrew Young. The 41-year-old married father of three has also said he is the father.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391426,00.html
Talk is cheap. I’m sure all participants would be willing to provide a DNA swab for the paternity test.
I question this story because in this age of cameras that fit in a phone smaller than a human hand I would expect to see some photo evidence of Edwards fleeing the tabloid reporters. They get Britney Spears everytime she hits a person with her car.
I think that this is a personal matter and should be left for the people involved to work it out and live with whatever they decide. The problem with most people is that they put politicians and musicians and actors on a pedestal. Why not treat everyone the same, regardless, of their station in life. Be a little more understanding and compassionate for one another.
Nicole,
So you NEVER judge your friends, co-workers or ANYONE for their behavior?
BTW Actors and Musicians get away with murder. hell, celebutards spend MINUTES in jail for DUI so don’t lump them in with politicians as some sort of victims of their own fame. No one is FORCED to be in the public spot light and it is not a secret what comes with fame, political or otherwise.
Don’t worry Vivian - it’s only tabloid trash. John Edwards said he’s only been in love with one woman for the past 30 years, and heck - they just renewed their vows last year. Why, if such a thing were true, you’d have to ask yourself what else in the hagiography/mythology of John and Elizabeth Edwards is not true. And that would be a lot of work that journalists would rather not do. So, relax and understand that it is categorically false, it’s just tabloid trash, and it’s not true.
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