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His wife he was willing to hurl;
For his younger lover
Dave Matthews will cover
The wedding song "Dad's Little Girl."
News Short n' Sweet by JFD8
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09/20/09
How F'd up is that?
09/20/09
A lot of people really believed him in here and are PISSED off still. Folks are stunned Elizabeth opened up a furniture store in town. I say more power to her, whatever she wants to do in the time she has.
And Foster dropping a Roy reference (huzzah, in roy we trust)! I can remember seeing them at UNC games and people would oooh and ahhh. Doesn't happen anymore and the Edwards go to a lot less games anyway.
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He won his Senate seat because he was in the right place at the right time and rose to national attention because Al Gore, also had a house on Bald Head.
09/21/09
Lauch was a weak candidate, a cranky good ole boy up against a rich pretty one was an easy win.
09/22/09
Before Edwards announced his candidacy for the Senate, pretty much no one knew him and that includes hard-core, old-time Democrats.
I'm sure he was popular on Franklin St. and within the other city limits of the region (see an N&O study from the election season), but he didn't run for re-election because he would've had a hard time winning the state and that theoretically would've diminished his star.
He may have been popular in his hometown (the Triangle), but he was never North Carolina's "favorite son". As for who might hold that title, Michael Jordan comes to mind.
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If we cross over into the parallel universe where Americans are no longer moralizing others' personal lives and he is able to run for the presidency again,I'll reestablish my vested interest and voice my opinion on his ethics with my vote. As it stands, I remain steadfast that I do not give a shit what he does personally, the fact that he broke campaign finance laws is more important to me, and would decide my vote, which doesn't matter anyway, because in the immortal words of Kristen Cavallari, he's dunzo.
Homebody dropped out of the race before this broke nationally, the scandal itself is post-politics even if the events were not, and that's the end of that. The only way we should be able to punish him for his moral misdeeds is by not voting for him, which is a non-issue now, and the only he can be punished for his criminal misdeeds is via a grand jury, which is doing their job, a job that isn't ours. I love that people have such an interest in readjusting the morals of others by force. Hold him to that fire, goddamnit, I hope you save us all.
09/20/09
Imagine if he had been elected, with a bastard child and a wife who, the cancer thing aside, evidently aspired to be the next Hillary once upon a time. It was left to Geraldo, a few weeks ago, to say the obvious: what would have happened if he was President now and the Chinese knew about his secret? Or North Korea? Or Iran? Or Russia?
And who was trying so hard to push him into the White House and what did they know about the kid? And who would they have told? And for what price?
This could well be a very big headache for the Democrats a year or so from now.
09/20/09
Imagine! Let's just imagine! If Edwards were President (which he was far from ever being) why, the Republic would collapse when this whore paraded the baby for tabloids!
And don't make me laugh- everything is a "headache" for Democrats. Always, every single thing is presented as a "problem" for them in the media. Yet Republicans walk on water with their paid toady Beltway scribes, and it's always a sunny tomorrow for them. While their operatives are quite literally trying to incite a race war, and the GOP shows itself as white, aging, pinched, bitter, and rather hateful, with no new ideas, just resentment and nastiness with a racist tinge.
But of course, "this may be bad news for the Democrats!" always gets play, without any factual looking at what's happening. Someone said the Beltway media is "wired for Republican rule", and it's rather fucking true. They can do no wrong, and Dems can do no right.
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09/21/09
so he cheated. so fucking what.
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However, in the interview Elizabeth did with Oprah, she said she didn't think John was preparing for a life with Rielle after her death. Now I don't think even she can deny that was exactly the case. Sure, he could have been lying to keep her quiet and stringing her along but I doubt that. The Enquirer has been dead on accurate, and they reported that he pleaded with her to keep the baby. Why else would he do that if he didn't plan on having her in his life forever? The guy is a first class sleaze bag.
09/20/09
Sorry, but nobody destroyed Edwards other then Edwards himself.
I'm sure you'd have written the exact same comment about Newt Gingrich, given the similarities. (Newt didn't have a bastard child, and didn't have an ambulance chaser to cover his payoffs, but close enough.)
Typical Gawker-esque hypocrisy in action; you must post on Jezebel. "You'd vote for universal coverage, Senator? Oh, go ahead and fool around on your sick wife then."
(And yes, you've read too much Gore Vidal.)
09/20/09
Ps. Worst screen name ever.
09/20/09
That mesmerizing bit of gossip aside (shocked!), I still don't know that I care about any of this. It no longer affects me since he is no longer running for office and I am therefor no longer an invested voter, and this sort of salacious detail worship seems to do nothing but engender a climate of moralizing, which I also do not care for, really. I guess what I'm saying is that if campaign money was used to bribe her, then yes, there should be a criminal trial and someone should be punished. But the details of his personal affair, what went on between him and her outside of that bizarre financial exchange, mean nothing to me. Schadenfreude failure on my part, I know.
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Speculative. He's out of office, not running for anything.
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edwards is joke, a fraud, a liar, and an evil man.
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