It’s completely untrue, ridiculous
Posted by Brian“It’s completely untrue, ridiculous.” That is what John Edwards previously said about rumors that he cheated on his wife with a former campaign worker. Now he has admitted to the affair.
I started to cull through some of Edwards’ quotes about his wife and his faithfulness to her - pretty amusing stuff. It takes a very shallow person to cheat on his wife while she was battling cancer, but that is just what John Edwards is. He is a slick trial lawyer who knows how to spin a good yarn, paint a compelling picture for juries. He fights poverty from his ginormous mansion. As the title of this column suggests: He was always a fake.
Supposedly the affair occurred back in 2006 and John had told his wife about it, which brings up an uncomfortable point made by someone on, of all places, the Huffington Post:
[B]oth John and Elizabeth Edwards cynically used their marriage as a means to help John Edwards win an election.
Plus, how stupid are they? They HAD to have known that the intense spotlight of a presidential campaign would have exposed the affair. If they had just decided to quietly fade from the public spotlight instead of run for President - again - then they might have been able to avoid this unpleasant attention.
Maybe there really are two Americas after all. One in which rich politicians cheat on their sick wives while using them as a campaign prop and the other one with the rest of us.
I eagerly await the hostile condemnation from leftists that I would expect were Edwards a Republican.
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Former President Bill Clinton is gallivanting around the world lecturing people to practice monogamy.
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August 9th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
What is sorta of amusing is that so far, no one has traced all this back to the Karl Rove-neocon-Reptar conspiracy that operates from the bunker under Mount Shasta.
August 9th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Dang it, you’ve blown their cover. Now they’re going to have to relocate the secret bunker!
August 9th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
What I’m waiting for is Edwards to submit to a DNA test now that he’s been called on it by Ms. Hunter’s sister. Then, not only would he be proven a liar for denying the afair in the first place, he also would be proven a liar for denying the child is his. Too bad he didn’t “just” assume a wide stance in a stall, then we would have already been reading about this for weeks in the MSM.
August 9th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Brian…what Bill Clinton means by monogamy is one girl….at a time!
August 10th, 2008 at 9:37 am
The only thing newsworthy about the Edwards saga is that an ambulance chaser finally got run over by a bus(t).
August 12th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Hey, speaking of politicians who cheated on their wives while the wives were ill with cancer …what’s Newt Gingrich up to these days?
Or maybe we could have a special day to focus on politicians who party with hookers like Dave Vitter…?
August 12th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Hey Tom, take a look around the site - I don’t spare Republicans who engage in unacceptable behavior, like Vitter and others (Newt’s infidelities were before my time online). You should try being consistent yourself instead of pointing to the other side as some form of bizarre justification.