The breathtaking audacity of John Edwards; Update: “Egocentric and narcissistic”
There will be a lot of sifting through Silky Pony’s public statements and family campaign photo-ops in the quest to find out when exactly the Edwards family knew about the Rielle Hunter affair (before, during, or after Elizabeth fell ill with cancer?) — and what it says about the failed candidate and erstwhile nutroots Democrat darling.
This has already been thrown back in Silky’s face:
“…I think every single candidate for president, Republican and Democratic have lives, personal lives, that indicate something about what kind of human being they are. And I think it is a fair evaluation for America to engage in to look at what kind of human beings each of us are, and what kind of president we’d make.”
And bloggers are taking a second look at Edwards’ very splashy People magazine photos spotlighting the renewal of his wedding vows with Elizabeth in June 2007–a stunt that scored major gushing from the lib media.
Was this staged to throw off questions about his fidelity? Did the family actually go along with such a ploy? Ugh.
I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen.
Breathtaking. Yeah.
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Update: Via Allah, here’s the Edwards mea culpa. A little late for humility, isn’t it?
It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me that I am sorry, as it is inadequate to say to the people who love me that I am sorry. In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic. If you want to beat me up — feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help.
I have given a complete interview on this matter and having done so, will have nothing more to say.
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The ultimate scumbag.
Will Edwards divorce his wife and marry the woman he had the affair with?
Or will he continue to leave her hanging in the wind and just make further clandestine visits to see the child while “helping those that need” his help?
If you do not see the difference in the two people in question, then you miss why it is ENTIRELY nothing more than deflection and obfuscation that you are committing.
And I do not believe I ever clamed he was unfot to be VP at any time. I personnally never thought he had a snowball’s chance in Hell of another shot at it. I think The Golden Calf would be at least that smart as to not ask someone who is already a one time loser at the post.
What Edwards is is nothing more than an emense hypocrite for all he claimed to be when it comes to women, their rights and their respect, considerring what he has done to this woman and the child in question.
I take that back…I do feel he is unfot to be VP, as well as President…but this had nothing to do with that. I have ALWAYS felt that way.
RetFireman – So you are saying it would be better to have an affair AND divorce your wife who is battling cancer than have an affair and NOT divorce your wife who is battling cancer?
Well, I can see you have morals… and can see things clearly. I would laugh, but it’s just too sick.
In other words, to you the other woman is more important than the wife to be loyal to??? You break your vows to your wife, so then you owe loyalty to the OTHER woman? Like SHE didn’t know she was having an affair with a married man?
And it’s then better to completely abandon your sick wife than to try to hold things together?
How is there much of any difference between Edwards and McCain in this? Both of them are indefensible!!
Gah… I just can’t believe you could defend McCain on this… un-be-liev-able
The difference I see is that I expect Dems and leftists to be hypocrites and pond scum. I don’t expect conservatives to be.
More like “Silky-Phony”.
Frankly Englishqueen, I simply don’t understand the attitude or tone of your post. I admitted that Obama has baggage. I just don’t think his baggage is as bad as, Hillary’s or Edwards with his recent cheating behavior bringing echoes of Lewinskygate. I think Obama is the safest choice(baggage being the point) of the the 3 to win the White House. I also said, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY. I’m not concerned about the polls right now. I’m concerned about electoral votes on November 4th. Believe it or not, my life will be just fine if my candidate loses. I do hope he wins. Take a look at my initial post, and your pissy response and decide what the hell your problem is. If you’re looking for a fight, go eff with TOS,Steve, LGM or Chap, because I’ve had too good of a day.
His moral compass is in his pants!
Now that the interview with Nightline has aired, it becomes even more apparent what a slickster Edwards is. Asked about his conduct, Edwards said that “John McCain has admitted to making mistakes in his first marriage”. Then Edwards went on to say “but that does not excuse what I did”. If it doesn’t excuse what you did Mr. Edwards, why did you bring it up? The slick mentioning of McCain served a purpose. Edwards was essentially saying: “Look, everybody does it so what is so bad about what I did?”. Then Edwards says the “relationship” ended in 2006. If it is true that the relationship ended in 2006, why then did you hire this woman to make a handful of videos about you IN 2008 when she had no experience in making videos? Most men who truly have ended extramarital affairs, simply stop seeing the woman altogether. Surely Mr. Edwards, you could have found more experienced videographers who worked cheaper than charging $114,000.00 for making four videos. And surely it was not essential for this woman to travel with you on your campaign plane all over the country and to Africa.
From the start when I first heard of this jackass, I told my wife that he is a fraud! He is such a light weight that he needs lead weights in his pants to hold him down from floating away.
What really concerns me is that many in America believed him and thought of him as a viable contender. He represents the worst in American politics. He is an absolute piece of crap–and yet some in American think he is ok.
Go figure. He isn’t worth scraping your foot on a curb. And we elected Bill Clinton, and Kennedy and Johnson? Give me a break.
I have another concern. His wife, Elizabeth, sick with cancer, apparently condoned his actions. She allowed him to lie to the American public knowing that he was lying. He ran for President and lied thru his teeth! You may not think this is an issue====but it is. She knew!
Why did she condone it?
Steve decided to verbalize the liberal mindset and got shown the door
Yesterday – Hannity was condemming the actions of Edwards but made excuses for J.McCain’s adulterous activity.
A shack up is a shack up…no excuses.!!!
Welcome to the sordid world of politics-the trick is that you have to make your own decisions-as garish as they may be-about who to vote for…and then find a way to cleanse yourself of the deed.
This for me is becoming harder for me to do with each passing election…it saddens me that we even have to spend time debating which is worse:
as Joy put it…
The MSM have started offering up their excusses for not reporting on this story before Edwards confessed and made it impossible for them to continue covering it up. Here are some quotes:
Someone forgot to tell The New York Times about this high “standard for proof”. They didn’t seem too concerned about endangering their own integrity when they used rumors and inuendo to do a hit piece on McCain and Vicki Iseman. Just a hint at a romantic affair between the two was enough for them to print it.
What’s interesting is that the Times story came out “on the heels of a wild tabloid scandal that was reported on by the National Enquirer about John Edwards and an alleged affair and love child.”
The Times must have felt that it was their duty to even the score. At least the “wild tabloid” got it right. What the MSM won’t say, but is very evident, is that they have to have “irrefutable evidence” in the case of a Democrat. But the existence of mere hints and rumors are enough evidence when it comes to Republicans.
Let’s bring em back as the Three Stooges: Edwards, Spitzer and the creep from NJ, Whashizname. But only if we can throw pies.
On August 8th, 2008 at 10:25 pm, lgm said:
Your undeniable proof? Oh that’s right, you actually believe the leftist hit pieces you read in the NYT. President McCain said he did not have an affair with that lobbyist, and neither you nor the NYT have any proof to contradict him. What’s more, if you have such empathy for Mrs. McCain’s health, why did you callously liken her to Paris Hilton just a few weeks ago? Hmmm?
Obfuscation becomes you, LGM; so does equivocation. Too bad they are poor substitutes for legitimate argumentation.
Btw, when you dredged up Newt, you left out Vitters, Craig and the other guy. But then again, now we can counter with Edwards, Clinton, McGreevey, Spitzer, etc., etc., etc.
sigh–well the RINO republitards picked McAmnesty to be their representitive and we conservitives are now stuck with the old. majorly flawed liberal. Republicans did it to themselves.
McGreevey
I told you she knew! Why sit back and ask why? They were in the race for themselves as all of them are…people are just people.
It is truly my belief that unless someone has a strong faith in God, they cannot become the upright moral individuals they want to be. Especially when faced with the temptations of power, lust, greed. These qualities are imparted to those who, with discipline and lots of prayer eventually obtain by the grace of a merciful God – and those that obtain those qualities – usually do not choose to be a part of politics. End of my sermon.
No – I take that back. Not the end yet. Look if anyone sits back and thinks they would do better in these situations than any one of these politicians are just as arrogant as the politicans themselves. It’s rather funny, on both sides of the isle – dems or repubs – each want righteousness and each believe they are more righteous than the other. The liberals don’t need a god – they are self righteous – therein lies their arrogance – the conservatives believe they are righteous because God says so – therein lies their arrogrance. We are all the created ones, and get up every morning to greet a new day – a new chance because of grace. I don’t believe we even know our own hearts to be judging someone elses’ – and it is so wonderful to know we don’t have to judge anyone – that isn’t our job. Our job is just to “be” learn to “be” what we were made to be. Now it’s the end.
Let’s review the recent scorecard, shall we?
A mayor of Detroit? check
A mayor of San Fran-sicko? check
A President? check
A governor of New Jersy? check
A governor of New York? check
A gay congressman from New York? check
A vice-presidential nominee? check
A mayor of Los Angeles? check
A congressman from New Orleans? check
What do these scumbags all have in common?
They were sorry, not for what they did, only that they were found out.
And only a few of them actually left office!
Oh, and they were all Democrats. That’s the party of never having to really say you’re sorry, unless you get caught. The party of moral relativity.
Four letters sum these people up: pigs.
They all also claim to be Christians?
Along with these Christian leaders…
Jim Bakker
Jimmy Swaggert
Frank Houston
John Paulk
Douglas Goodman
Ted Haggard
Paul Barnes
Lonnie Lath
Earl Paulkam
Joe Barron
etc…….
I take it you will vote for Obama while hoping for a more liberal candidate to come along then?
*sigh*
I give it a couple of days before he admits the kid is his, too…
I’m hoping it plays out longer so as to create as much embaressment for the Democrats as possible but I have no doubt in the end it will be the same. The whole time line of events doesn’t make any sense unless the child is his. Hopefully he will face a paternity suit that relieves him of a large part of his massive wealth. (This should actually please him because it is, you know, for the children.) That should finally get him out of politics and shut him up. Maybe he will even have time to pursue that millworker job he has desired all his life.
I look for Rev Jackson to be one of the “spiritual advisors” Edwards will call in when Edwards goes into full repentance mode. Next look for a 60-Minutes interview with Johnny and Liz holding hands and smiling.
I dont think he will admit the child is his unless somebody forces a DNA test.
On second thought, I think the spiritual advisor Johnny-boy will call in will be Pastor Joel Osteen. After all Joel is “in” right now and they’re both grinning fools and snake-oil salesmen.
DaveC said (#120):
Yes. How about you? (An answer would be better than more hostility.)
#199 rob said:
Rob, I don’t mean to bust your “religious affiliation” bubble, (and I’m sure even lgm can back me up on this one) but ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer from NY doesn’t “claim to be a Christian.”
Unless he was wiring funds across state lines to secretly meet behind closed DC hotel doors with “drug addicted, teenage runaway” members of ‘Jews for Jesus.’
Is that what you were erroneously implying?
You bring up an interesting point. Does Christianity condemn “Jews for Jesus” to burn in a lake of fire for all eternity, or is that only all rest of the Jews?
Wow, your interesting question brings up another interesting question too. Does Ted Kennedy condemn all women to drown in a lake of salt water for all eternity, or is that only for Mary Jo Kopechne?
FYI – While Democrat Ted Kennedy is a Christian, Democrat ex-Governor of NY, Eliot Spitzer, isn’t.
She’s Just A Girl Who Claims That I Am The One
But The Kid Is Not My
SongirlShe Says I Am The One, But The Kid Is Not My
Songirl.Crotch grap, moonwalk.
Heeee!…..Heeeeee!
lol… if it would futher the liberal Obama agenda, Kennedy would probably condemn anybody he could into a lake of water.
The audacity to reach out for sympathy is astoundingly low class.
Most men aspire to a man among men.
Edwards has virtually achieved the exalted status of A-hole among A-holes.
I don’t know the answer to your question. I can tell you that, in my mind, I reserve that “lake of fire” for those who killed my friends, and who still want to cut my head off because I’m not one of their religion.
DBNinKY – Hate to bust your bubble, but it is WELL-KNOWN that McCain not only had an affair while married to a woman battling cancer, but he also DIVORCED her and married the woman he had the affair with. Her name is now Cindy McCain.
From now on do your homework, and don’t EV-ER make me defend LGM again!
McAmnesty’s cheating story…
Joy, I know what you mean about the defending LGM thing, but I understood him to be parroting the NYT in their recent attempt to link McCain to an affair with a lobbyist chick.
As for McCain, while I make no excuses for his actions during a previous marriage, I will say nothing against the only candidate that stands between the Presidency and B. Hussein Obama. Besides, I like Cindy McCain.
I do not mean to sound offensive, but I am not about to sit this election out and elect BHO or any Democrat, by default. I support John McCain by actively campaigning for him across my state, and I will certainly vote him.
Nutz! vote “for” him
I guess Rob ought to vote for Obama.
That’s called the Hannity Doctrine. It doesn’t make for good debate, but it’s good at showing how dishonest many conservatives are willing to be to get their way. Lie and spin, and or change the subject.
There is one thing no one can deny – if you want an example of faithfulness, look no farther than our current president and first lady. And for that matter, look to the older Bush and his wife. Say what you will about him, but he is true blue to his family.
Mom says no to paternity test.
DBNinKY – Yes, Cindy McCain is a sweetheart… aren’t all women who have affairs with married men, who know the wife has cancer and has been broken in a car accident. Cindy McCain is a peach! /sarcasm
Congrats, you may as well be a Democrat. And you’ve forever lost the right to take the moral high ground. Feel good?
John McCain could not get the nomination even at this point if conservatives en masse stood up for what they believe in instead of selling out.
Thanks to people like YOU for McCain.
new conspiracy theory….just looked up media coverage john edwards on google. first hit is daily kos complaining that edwards can’t get any media coverage after the iowa caucus. hmmm….could it be that the mainstream media already knew of the affair at that time and wanted to keep edwards out of the running to lower the embarrassment level to THEIR party????
#141 corona said:
another link to AP right here.
As if Edwards needed any more bad news. Now he can’t prove that he didn’t lie a second time on this sordid issue.
Until he can prove himself not to be the daddy, we are left to scratch our heads over his contentions that:
1. He, Edwards, now had the affair, but some other guy working for his campaign (and who isn’t listed on the baby’s birth certificate) supplied the “special sauce.”
2. Relocation and funding has been provided for the mistress and the baby, but not by Edwards or the other horny campaign worker. Rather, it was provided by Edwards’ finance chairman, who didn’t tell Edwards that he has been doing this out of the goodness of his own heart.
3. Now, with relocation and assistance flowing in from John Edwards’ finance chairman – and with John Edwards knowing nothing about it – the mistress decides that she will never, ever disclose who the real daddy is…even to the point of now subjecting her reputation to that of a guest on the ‘Maury Povich Show.’
As the church-lady used to say, “how conveeeeeeeenient.
Ok, who believes John Edwards didn’t know this was what Ms. Hunter was going to say before he ever made his statement?
If you said yes, you believe, then I can think of a number of descriptive terms to describe your naivety…..but the #1 word that comes to mind is…..Democrat
Actually we call it the Keep Democrats Out Of Power At All Costs Because They Are Dangerous Doctrine.
Strangely enough they are also the only ones that couldn’t see through this phony early on. Conservative like us were ignored or called mean-spirted for pointing out what this latest revelation, and those to come, prove beyond a doubt; that he is a self-serving, lying weasle.
Hunter and Edwards are working in tandem. He said yes he’ll do it, she says no and they each have plausible reasons for their dissenting reasons (she wants privacy and he wants to clear his name). Her need for “privacy” is really her need to keep Johnny-boy out of the poky so that those monthly hush-money checks keep coming in. And Edwards will do anything needed to keep this at a stalemate while he dreams up his next move.
It’s the perfect move, but those that see it for what it is have no choice but to conclude he really is the daddy.
Oh, and his wife is in on the whole thing. She may not have wanted any of this to happen, but she is wheeling and dealing right now just like her husband.
Best quote of the comments.
A black, liberal that hates whites and wants open borders, or a white open border adulterer liberal that says screw you to conservitives… Obama is looking better and better.
At least I can understand why Obama hates me and America.
#145 said:
I could never believe most of what came out of John Edwards’ mouth over the past eight years, receiving paychecks from a hedge fund to “learn more about poverty,” or “there are over 200,000 homeless vets sleeping under bridges every night,” etc. And now this.
To answer your question, Edwards’ quick and adamant promise of submitting to a paternity test last night gave me the impression that his mistress’ bought silence was already in the bag.
Nice try at putting words in my mouth and your projection of your own beliefs…but I said nothing of the kind.
As I personally would never cheat on my wife, nor have I, you can rest assured that you are talking from where you should be sitting.
This is an interesting social phenomenon: Why would Hillary Clinton, Edwards wife and Elliot Spitzer’s wife be so willing to put up with these insults-these women with no exception could ditch their husbands and financially make a good living-and find new loves…but they don’t…why?
Is it because in their minds they are so strongly attracted to the aphrodesiac of power that they feel unable to leave its grip? Is it because they value the shopping trips over their own honor?
What say you the reader?
These women (and this includes Michelle Obama) all marry these men for a reason and it’s not their looks. That they cheat, well, it’s part of the package. You can say what you want about these gals, but stupid, none of them are. I will say that the Obamas are the Clintons – only black. Both (and I use that term because they work in tandem, so I’m speaking of two units) see themselves as royalty – they may differ slightly on the politics, but they view themselves the same. I don’t want another “team” in the white house. Neither ‘team’ is royalty in my book, they are servants of the people even if they don’t see it that way and believe they do not see themselves as servants to anybody – Bill and Barak’s arrogance are proof of that! Jeeze, not to mention these women who marry them.
Joy, I empathize with your pov on McCain, I honestly do, but are you prepared to accept the consequences of your anti-McCain stance?
Unemployment is likely triple, once Obama doubles the capital gains tax, which he has already said is among his priorities, and consumer prices for food and fuel will go even higher than they are now.
Wasteful government spending and interference will increase exponentially under an Obama administration, with new and widened social programs and services.
National security will be compromised, even weakened, as an Obama administration will drain our military’s budget, to offset his social spending, and lower their morale by deploying our soldiers to be the world’s modestly armed social workers.
A third war in Iraq will be a given if Obama “re-deploys” our military to Iraq’s perimeters, as he suggested he will do shortly after assuming office, leaving the Iraqi people vulnerable and at the mercy of Iran.
I appreciate your concerns about McCain, but there is too much at stake not to vote for him. I ask that you please reconsider your position as just four years of an Obama presidency would prove disastrous.
DBNinKY said (#155):
The economy did OK under Clinton (queue excuse) with his high tax/balanced budget. One of the big economic problems right now is the budget deficit.
To quote a recent great President; “Vote your hopes, not your fears.”
Every time Obama talks about “hope,” coma patients regain consciousness and chant “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
RetFireman – Then why are you defending adultery for McCain and claiming it’s different in his case?
You’re a hypocrite and your morals ARE questionable when you defend someone who has committed adultery, especially someone who has committed it against a woman who was maimed and had cancer.
Everytime from here on out that you attempt to claim the moral high ground against a Democrat, think of this and remember you’re no different. You should be condemning McCain’s actions in this if you condemn Edwards. Anyone who condemns the actions of one of them without comdemning the other is a hypocritic. Period.
Really? Wow, lgm. Please explain how the budget deficit is one of the big economic problems right now….can you?
On August 10th, 2008 at 12:30 pm, lgm said:
America’s economy succeeded in the nineties, despite being saddled with the most massive Democrat tax increase the republic has ever known, because of the Contract w/ America, i.e., Republican Congress, Republican Senate, Republican State Houses, which kept the real Bill Clinton – a tax and spend Democrat – in check.
Corkie –
He’s a Dem, he can’t explain that. And even if he could, the answer would be to …. drum roll here… raise taxes. The Dem answer to everything.
John McCain cheated on his wife, too.
And he got nominated. So… what’s up with that?