Comments on: Edwards 2006 Presidential Announcement Tour Companion: His Mistress

By: DLS

DLS — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:43:44 +0000

The story isn't fully dead until the paternity of the child is established. Most of us don't care either way, but we don't respect the game-playing in trying to evade it.

By: DLS

DLS — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:34:55 +0000

Actually, Chris, what you say depends on your maturity level. If you don't think it matters at all, you fail; if you're just acting in a silly defensive mode on behalf of any and all Democrats, same thing. If you believe some on the Left are overreacting in a sense of (common on the Left) pathological collective guilt, yes, you're right. The stupid bastard (who never fooled anyone intelligent with his phony “populism”) should simply be cast aside and never become part of a Dem campaign again and not be in the news again. He is trash and should be discarded, permanently.

The lefty talk radio people are a mixed bunch on this but even though he is one of the most annoying and illogical lefty (louder at times and less logical than Sean Hannity on the right ever manages to be), Ed Schul[t]z (sp?) the big loudmouth, who is on the radio during the afternoon and early evening here in Detroit metro, made a great point as recently as yesterday. He is sick of people defending Edwards and sick of people like his wife aiding in the coverup and is “sick of the _same_old_lies!_” (And, he added for good measure, “”We're no better than the conservatives” if the libs and Dems don't engage in a badly-needed house- and behavior-cleaning.)

As to your observation of the media, yep — in plain terms, once Edwards was out of the race for the Presidency, he no longer was news, until there was brief interest in him as a VP selection, which subsided once this was seen as not to be.

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:28:36 +0000

the fact that a lot of people in the MSM have taken heat for liberal bias in their determination to protect him for months.

You know… I've thought about this… and I think the real issue is that the media has always ignored John Edwards during good and bad times.

By: Marlowecan

Marlowecan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:45:22 +0000

Saintiexe56 said: "hitler was prude, that did not prevent him from being a very bad guy meditate on that"

In contrast, Caligula was . . .well, about as far from prudish as one can get . . . that did not prevent HIM from being a very bad guy.

No relationship between priapism and being a good president. Lincoln and Truman were the most respectable characters (revisionists notwithstanding), and the greatest presidents of the republic. Clinton was a hound-dog, and accomplished diddily.

ChrisWWW...I suspect this story has legs because of Edwards hypocrisy, the fact that he is still lying and . . . most importantly . . . the fact that a lot of people in the MSM have taken heat for liberal bias in their determination to protect him for months.

Taking apart Edwards does not seem likely to hurt Obama -- who shines in comparison -- so the hounds have been unleashed on Edwards.

Joe's post is indicative of the sheer amount of information the MSM could have had if it had looked into this story when Edwards WAS running for president.

Instead, it went into the vault.

By: saintixe56

saintixe56 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:24:50 +0000

IMHO…
being part french, some of my childhood was spent learning the long list of kings…and queens…and kings mistresses . That certainly told and still tells a lot about the human heart vagaries for kids. What is the result… the french do not lose precious time bothering who cuckholded whom. The main recent problem was not that madame sarkozy had been unfaithful, but that her husband had acrried his heart on his sleeve in 2005. That he promptly remarried was good. Carla is lovely, and clearly monsieur president is back on tracks. Love stories are distractful which is wrong, as long a sthe politicina cares for his country, who cares who he is bedding.
The US would do the US a world of good to learn not to bother about politicians sex lives. So what he has a mistress and is probably a cad, methinks it is elizabeth problem not ours.
besides as french history good louis XVI was ever so faithful that he lost his head, good ole HENRY THE 4TH had more mistresses than the year has days and if he was to run tomorrow the french would elect him as he is still the most popular king ever this benighted land ever had.
the morality is do not mix sexual prowess and polical savviness.
hitler was prude, that did not prevent him from being a very bad guy
meditate on that

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:09:50 +0000

Why does this story have legs or need it?

He cheated on his wife. He's disgraced himself and pissed off his former supporters. If the baby is his, what does that change?

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