<p>Why yes, Republican blogs would include the Hussein. It is clear what that is so.</p>
<p>For what it is worth, I don’t think Vermonters would refer to Obama as “OMG, he is so dreamy” as we take our politics seriously. I happen to also like Dean. My D, a Vermonter, living in NYC, will be performing with well known people at a fundraiser for Obama in NYC tomorrow. I have never heard her call Obama “dreamy” and she doesn’t use “OMG” either. And she is only 19 and this is her first presidential election in which she can vote.</p>
<p>^^ That’s why I am confused. In his statement he says that he met her in a bar so thought she got the job after that. Then I read that the affair started after she already had the job. Something doesn’t quite jibe.</p>
<p>It’s really laughable that someone would actually think that an affair someone had 20 years ago, which resulted in marriage could possibly be compared to John Edwards pitiful and despicable behavior. If Elizabeth was Edward’s second wife and he had an affair with her while married to someone else 20 years ago, no one would care in the least at this point.</p>
<p>The whole point of this is that Edwards carried on with this during his Presidential campaign, while his wife was suffering from breast cancer, and lied to both his campaign staff and the public about it. Then after it was supposedly over, he went to visit her at a hotel? And now there’s further sordid detail that his girlfriend was treated to a 2.5 million dollar home in California to “get her out of North Carolina”, paid for by one of Edward’s rich buddies who said he did it to help his friend. And interestingly the supposed father of the baby who was an Edward’s campaign staffer also is living in an expensive home with apparently no means of support. Hmmm. I wonder how much they are paying him to continue with the story that the baby is his.
The woman says the baby is Edward’s, and I don’t think we have heard the end of this story. Maybe we’ll see this one on Jerry Springer.</p>
<p>Edward’s own campaign manager was quoted as saying that this was a “betrayal” of all the people that put their trust and hope in Edwards (well they were stupid to do that in the first place), and that he hopes that Edwards realizes that he should leave the political arena for good.
That’s his own campaign manager. Yet people on this site are defending this lowlife? </p>
<p>John Edwards doesn’t even deserve to shine McCain’s shoes.</p>
<p>“That’s why I am confused. In his statement he says that he met her in a bar so thought she got the job after that. Then I read that the affair started after she already had the job. Something doesn’t quite jibe.”</p>
<p>Everything jibes if one assumes that Edwards only tells the truth when he has no other choice.</p>
<p>Maybe all 3 happened relatively simultaneously. She was hired to keep her around & give her presence a pretense of legitimacy (w/ benefits). She picks up a camera, creates a business, and voila! suddenly she’s a “filmmaker”!</p>
<p>Anyway, read my earlier post - this is NOTHING like the McCain situation over 30 years ago - add another one to the list - McCain didn’t hire Cindy w/ campaign contributors’ money.</p>
<p>^^ True. 1. She could not shoot videos. 2. She did not need his money. But he’s benefitted from hers! His supporters may be thankful that their campaign contribution is not being used to rent an airplane. Only elitists like Obama do. Non-elitists like McCain use their wive’s jets. ;)</p>
<p>come on bz - Cindy was THE campaign contributor. The Hensley money bankrolled McCain into politics - he certainly could have never done it on his own. A little research will tell you that the money was pretty dirty too - bootlegging, gambling, mafia ties, even murder in its history. Her father was involved in all manner of criminal activities.</p>
<p>I’d vote for Kathleen Kennedy Townsend - I already did actually - for governor of Maryland but she lost - seemingly because some found her unattractive. At least that was the only thing I heard mentioned on talk radio.</p>
<p>Demonstrably no. Who remembers a couple of months ago when Keith Olbermann actually broke into an existing tv show to announce that the NY Times was reporting an affair by McCain. It was the “breaking news” thing where my heart was in my throat.</p>
<p>“For that matter, I don’t think McCain’s affair is defensible either.”</p>
<p>It wasn’t one affair. It was multiple affairs over a period of seven years, while he was still married, which continued until he divorced his crippled wife and married the squeeze who gave him his entry into politics, and the money to do it.</p>
<p>I’m a true blue Democrat and I dislike infidelity among candidates of either party, but I think TIME is the answer to the question of McCain’s affair being accepted. If John Edwards decides to re-enter politics twenty years from today, his 2006 affair (assuming there’s no follow-up infidelity) won’t be very important.</p>
<p>I agree. It doesn’t make either of them a better or worse person but time with no further indiscretions makes a difference. That’s why Obama’s cocain use or Bush’s drinking are not issues. If it happened a couple of years ago that’s a different story but 20+ isn’t a problem.</p>