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Post by nitetimeritetime on Feb 4, 2010 1:04:02 GMT -5
Wait, did he do something else? The only thing I've seen lately is that a former aide wrote a book about something we've known for a while. Are there recent shenanigans too?
But he had already acknowledged that he'd left his cancer-stricken wife to be with the mistress...
Until the promo blitz for the book, though, I didn't know about the paternity or widow-swindling. And I'm more of a political junkie than your average bear.
I know even before the Iowa caucuses, the Hillary camp knew about at least the affair but didn't want to go negative on him with it.
I busted my ass volunteering in Iowa & New Hampshire (on my own dime) for Bill Richardson, who was the 4th-runner Democrat. This bastid John Edwards was the 3rd-runner - and he won my precinct in the Iowa caucuses to boot. He sucked the air out of the room for other, perhaps more suitable/qualified candidates - I'll admit, including my guy - just because he didn't want to admit being a douche of his magnitude.
I feel cheated that all the time, money, and effort I put into my candidate's campaign was debased by Edwards' bastidry. Perhaps this is why this particularly peeves me.
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Yeah. Pissed me off here in Iowa as well. I was for Richardson, and talking to the Edwards folks, Richardson probably would have won if they had known.
Troo here - not much to add. Edwards has proven himself the typical, self-indulgent, ego-maniacal politician. Just goes to prove that power actually does corrupt (surprise, surprise!). But who knows, maybe he was born a d!ck.
I assume Kdogg is interested in my opinion because I was an Edwards supporter. As I said all along (I think), I supported his populists positions (and still do.) Whether he was an opportunist who was forced into these positions cannot be known (though it seems likely) but I trust few if any politicians these days. My hope was that since the progressive populists got him elected, he would be forced to do their (our) bidding, at least in part, if he hoped to get re-elected. We'll never know, and that's probably a good thing as another sex scandalized Democratic President would be a disaster.
Richardson would have been a good choice and I likely would have picked between him and Obama had Edwards not been in the race, or forced into his positions. I am always pulled between the candidate I really like but can't win (ie a Kucinich-like candidate) and the candidate that has some chance but I don't agree with and/or trust entirely.
My feelings are that one must sell their soul to get in position to run for national office. And the recent Supreme Court decision greatly amplifies this. We can only hope to vote for the one that has sold himself to the "best" bidders. This is just the sad state on American politics.
I have basically ignored the new Edwards revelations as how much more of a d!ck can he be! I just feel really bad for Elizabeth and the kids.
Thought this thread was going to be about that psychic shithead John Edward
Ugh, I hate that guy. So fake. The audience has to fill out questionnaires before the show about who they're trying to "contact." That should give it away right there.
Post by nitetimeritetime on Feb 5, 2010 13:25:23 GMT -5
Once again, I agree 100% with troo. Voted for Slimeball, J.D. in the primary, for the exact same reasons, and Richardson would have been my second (realistic) choice.
Troo, of course I was asking you in particular, after all the time we both spent in the Election 2008 thread...
Steve, here's what I've heard of the sex tape: Edwards' aide Andrew Young, the one who's written the tell-all book, claims that he's in possession of a sex tape featuring Edwards & mistress Rielle Hunter - who worked as a videographer on the Edwards campaign. Young's the guy who took the fall and claimed paternity of the baby to protect Edwards. Hunter stayed with Young & his family for a while during the campaign, and apparently threw the tape in the trash while staying there.
The battle over that tape is going on in court, with Hunter seeking the tape's return and Young saying that the tape was technically abandoned... adding that he'd been offered a lot of money for it. This particular court fight could get ugly. Should be fun to watch.
So I was flipping through the radio stations last night and wound up at the hard/classic station out of Milwaukee. The DJ introduced a song using Edwards as context. Said something like "So John Edwards has been making headlines lately - apparently he had his wife Elizabeth in one of these..." He paused for a second, and I tried to figure out what song he could be possibly introducing. And Mr. DJ says "This is Stranglehold by The Nuge..." as the song started up. I figured you couldn't possibly say something like that without some factual basis behind it, lest you find yourself facing a slander suit.