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Home Front: Politix
Boston Herald: Enquirer says Edwards had affair as wife fought cancer
2007-10-11
More info on the National Enquirer Website. PRESIDENTIAL CHEATING SCANDAL! ALLEGED AFFAIR COULD WRECK JOHN EDWARDS' CAMPAIGN BID
The National Enquirer is reporting that Democratic presidential candidate had an affair with a tribble former campaign worker while his wife Elizabeth was battling breast cancer.

The newspaper cited friends of the “other woman” and qualified its report saying “if proven true,” it could devastate the campaign. An Edwards spokesman told the Enquirer the allegations are “false, absolute nonsense.” The Enquirer said the woman refused repeated requests for comment.

The Enquirer reported that a friend says the woman told her, “The affair started about 18 months ago. When they met at a bar, sparks flew immediately. “She never expected it would turn sexual since John is married and is running for president. But it soon did - and she fell for him.”

The friend said the woman said “she knew there was no way he was going to leave Elizabeth, a wife battling cancer.” Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and last March announced it had returned. She kept campaigning, speaking out in her husband’s defense against political attacks.

The Enquirer claims possession of a “bombshell e-mail” in which the woman confessed to a friend she’s “in love with John,” but it’s “difficult because he is married and has kids.” In another e-mail, the Enquirer said she wrote: “Last night and this a.m., he actually has amazed me. He is a great man. My heart is loud and my head is silenced.” But the woman’s friend said “both she and John began to feel real guilty and they decided to end it.”
Posted by:Delphi

#10  Wonder if Anna and Bacon Bits were involved??????
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-10-11 17:19  

#9  Folks, this has Sydney Blumenthal written all over it. He is the anti-Rove of dirty Democratic politics and HIllary's go-to-guy for a stunt like this. He probably set it up the way Rove set up Mary Mapes and Dan Rather. And since it is "emails to a friend" doesn't it remind you of Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky? Suprised that Drudge didn't report it.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-10-11 16:59  

#8  Gary Hart should have just said: "she was hot and available." It would have flown better at the time than the denials did.
Posted by: 3dc   2007-10-11 16:28  

#7  Seems like Edward's campaign is already a train wreck in progress.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-10-11 14:54  

#6  A slow news day; the Boston Herald reports a story by the National Enquirer. That is like the MSM interviewing each other when things get slow.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-10-11 14:53  

#5  If he did it--and that's still if at this point--he's a pig.

This ambulance chaser is still a pig, with or without an affair.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2007-10-11 13:19  

#4  re #2: mom, my major objection to Gary Hart was that he was too stupid to hold major office. He challenged the press to find him in a compromising situation. They did. If I had been running for office, and challenged the press to catch me cheating, the only woman I would have been alone with -ever- would be my wife. Maybe my mother or grandmother. No one else.
Posted by: Rambler   2007-10-11 12:08  

#3  So what? NOW officially endorsed a sitting president who's commitment to the institution is all relative. Heck, she can run for his old Senate seat and possibly the office itself. It's a big strategy these days. Now if this was a Republican, that's all a different story. No toe tapping about it. /sarcasm off
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-10-11 11:47  

#2  I wouldn't trust the National Inquisitor to get a recipe for a peanut butter sandwich right.

If this story is in fact true, or if another candidate turns out to be a cad, then the candidate should withdraw from the race.

This issue reminds me of the Gary Hart campaign in 1988. I remember when Hart got caught in Monkey Business, people wondered what the big deal was, why adultery should make him enelgible for office.

Well, if he can't keep it zipped, he's a lousy security risk.

If he's willing to do something out of selfishness that may result in public humiliation for his family, including the woman he's sworn to love and protect and cherish, then he doesn't have the character to serve the public.
Posted by: mom   2007-10-11 11:14  

#1  If he did it--and that's still if at this point--he's a pig.

I also hope someone gets curious about who tipped of the Enquirer about this. I'm not a gambling man, but I'd lay money down that the Hillary! campaign was the source.

If Edwards sinks or disappears, does it benefit Hillary? You'd think no--she doesn't want a clarified head-to-head race against Obama. But Obama is counting on Edwards to do the dirty work of taking Hillary on. ... The ideal outcome for Obama would be if Edwards loses most of his support yet stays in the race long enough to go on the attack.

--Mickey Kaus
Posted by: Mike   2007-10-11 11:06  

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