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2008-08-14 Home Front: Politix

Sex, Lies and Videotape: Tabloids Persist on Edwards Story

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Do I kick him out, or do we have a 30-year marriage that can be rebuilt?"

it would be funny... if she wasn't dying of cancer.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-08-14 04:23|| 2008-08-14 04:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, that's the one aspect of this that takes all the fun out of watching him squirm. If I were him, I'd lock the gun cabinet before I got drunk and went to bed.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-14 08:57|| 2008-08-14 08:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, I'll bet Castle Breck ain't a real fun place to be for Pretty Boy these days.
He'd be better off moving into a van down by the river.

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-14 09:09|| 2008-08-14 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm suffering John Edwards fatigue. Completely tired of hearing about his antics.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-14 09:17|| 2008-08-14 09:17|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 amen, amen, etc. However, it is satisfying(sp) in a schadenfreude way to watch him squrim and try damage control.

Posted by WolfDog 2008-08-14 12:08|| 2008-08-14 12:08|| Front Page Top

#6 i would like to know how you tell your spousal unit about an affair 'slowly.' its not like a series of bounced checks that the NSF notices come in over time.
Maybe he just talked slowly.

but it is most definitly not funny to watch his wife have to deal with this shit too.

maybe he needs a gun, one bullet, a bottle of whiskey and a locked room.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-08-14 14:27|| 2008-08-14 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 I am liking the details about how this woman was a complete new-age flake and a pathetic middle-age groupie. It sounds like she spouts stuff about life-energy and horoscope every time she opens her mouth. How could Silky stand to listen to that crap? He would've had to pay lip service (ahem) to it too. I'm glad we never got a Vice President who is capable of talking seriously about "auras" and "past lives."

She told the Newsweek guy that she considered Edwards a "project". And she was going to use her new-age knowledge to unlock his potential and help him become a transformational leader like MLK or Gandhi (or something along those lines). I suspect she actually believed it too.

Well, she managed to torpedo whatever potential remained for his public career (not that Silky doesn't share the blame for his own downfall). The irony is so thick and juicy.

But she did get a baby out of it and a (likely) sweet palimony deal - provided Edwards doesn't lose all his dough ~~when~~ if it comes out that he committed fraud in the course of the attempted cover up. So it wasn't a complete loss for her and she can rationalize her kooky beliefs, if she can ignore her conscience about stealing the husband and publicly humiliating a cancer victim.

Meanwhile, he's still lying about the timing of the affair - when she was hired, about the paternity and about the role of his staffers, and the timing of Elizabeth's cancer.

No one believes him now and a few of those allegations will be verifiable so he's essentially burying himself deeper.

Some have speculated that he could recover from this eventually, a few years down the road, and still play some limited public role. I don't think so. The aspects of Elizabeth's cancer and the continued lying to the media and the possible involvement of campaign funds, and the late withdrawal (Hillary must be furious!) will not be so easily brushed aside.

I pray for Elizabeth's recovery but it sounds like her prognosis is not good. I know I shouldn't go there but, what happens when....

Posted by Knuckles Flump9514 2008-08-14 20:52|| 2008-08-14 20:52|| Front Page Top

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