John Edwards...

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Sweet Fancy Moses. This is the most sordid story. Not just an affair; not just asking an aide to lie; not just a fun baby; not just cheating on his wife who was terminally ill with cancer; not just using campaing funds to pay off the mistress; not just speculating who his wife's terminal illness could help his campaign.

Now he reportedly punched his wife.

Holy shit...

[Dude]

[Sir Stewart]

To think I 'voted' for this guy (Kerry '04). I never did trust that greasy grin.

[explodo]

To think I 'voted' for this guy (Kerry '04). I never did trust that greasy grin.

Same. Something always seemed a little off. Looking back, I can't believe I voted for Kerry either but at least he's more real this this asshat.

[mountain bed]

I like a book about political campaigns as much as anyone, but there is no way in hell I'm gonna read that new tell-all book about Edwards. I just do not have the stomach for it.

 

What a disappointing dipshit of a guy. The really sad thing is Edwards could work a small room with his rhetoric pretty good. THANK GOD he didn't get the nomination in '08. Can you even imagine? >

 

You can disagee with President Obama, but he's not a scumbag like this guy.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

I like a book about political campaigns as much as anyone, but there is no way in hell I'm gonna read that new tell-all book about Edwards. I just do not have the stomach for it.

 

What a disappointing dipshit of a guy. The really sad thing is Edwards could work a small room with his rhetoric pretty good. THANK GOD he didn't get the nomination in '08. Can you even imagine? >

 

You can disagee with President Obama, but he's not a scumbag like this guy.

 

Even Gary Hart wasn't this sleezy.

[stagerug]

Sweet Fancy Moses. This is the most sordid story. Not just an affair; not just asking an aide to lie; not just a fun baby; not just cheating on his wife who was terminally ill with cancer; not just using campaing funds to pay off the mistress; not just speculating who his wife's terminal illness could help his campaign.

Now he reportedly punched his wife.

Holy shit...

 

Yeah. Wow. If I'm honest, none of the early information was surprising to me at all. He, like SO MANY men of his age, had a break and let his dick do the talking. Then maybe fell in love with the new pussy (pardon the parlance) cuz she was younger, and she made him feel younger and powerful, and was also there to help him grieve his, at the time, nearly terminally ill wife. And then desperate to win, he totally exploited his situation by using his wife as a campaign tool. And then did what he had to do out of desperation to cover it all up for personal preservation, when it was about to leak. This is awful stuff, but I get it. I'm sure that says lovely things about me, but I do get it.

 

If he was also beating his wife...FK that guy. That puts a whole new spin on it for me. That takes the whole runaway train angle out of it for me, and then all you got left is a real POS. I mean, Jesus.

[Atticus]

I know attorneys like Edwards. I think it's fine for people to love or hate him for his positions, I just tend to be in the latter camp, because he just doesn't pass the sniff test in my book. I hope he helps fix the insurance nightmare for doctors and several other industries in this country that he helped create.

 

john edwards is a superflow douchebag

super-scented extra strength

[Dude]

And just when you've thought we've seen it all, Edwards even has his own sex tape:

 

Judge wants Edwards sex tape 'under lock and key'

 

By Mike Baker, Associated Press Writer

PITTSBORO, N.C. — A judge wants to put a sex tape of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards "under lock and key," demanding Friday that a former aide to the pilloried politician turn over the video by next week.

Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones reprimanded Andrew Young during a brief court hearing in North Carolina for not surrendering the video when deputies went to retrieve it last week. Jones declared that the estranged Edwards confidant could face jail for contempt if he does not relinquish the tape and other items by Wednesday afternoon.

 

"These items are to be produced and turned over to the court," Jones said. "The court will put them under lock and key -- and under seal -- until the lawsuit is resolved."

 

Edwards' former mistress, Rielle Hunter, had won a temporary restraining order against Young that sought the return of what she called a "very private and personal" video she made in 2006. She has also sued Young for invasion of privacy.

 

The original sex tape is in an Atlanta safety deposit box along with possibly two other copies, according to an affidavit filed by Young on Friday night. The judge has asked for all of the copies Young has.

 

Young also said another copy has been turned over to the FBI, which has been investigating the money that exchanged hands during Edwards' second White House campaign.

 

An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment.

 

Young, who initially claimed to be the father of Hunter's baby, has written a tell-all book about how Edwards hid his mistress and child amid the 2008 White House campaign. The longtime aide wrote that he found a video in a "box of trash" Hunter had left behind at a home he rented in Chapel Hill.

 

The tape, Young says, shows Edwards in a sexual encounter with a pregnant woman that Young believes to be Hunter. Young's attorneys had argued that the tape Hunter was seeking appeared to be different from the one he has.

 

Young told reporters after the court hearing that he and his wife, Cheri, were happy to comply and supply the items. He has previously said that he kept the tape as security and proof of his story while declining large financial offers for the video.

 

"There's a reason nobody's ever seen the tape," Young said outside the courthouse. He also said in his affidavit that he would turn over campaign videos and photographs shot by Hunter.

 

Edwards, a former North Carolina senator and 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, admitted for the first time last month that he fathered Hunter's child, now almost 2 years old. He and his wife are now separated.

[u2roolz]

I'm surprised no one mentioned the sex tape until 3 minutes ago. I almost posted about it, but I got busy doing other stuff.

 

Anyways, I wonder if his bush has a similar coiffe.

[Dude]

Even Dave Matthews gets dragged into it. If you're stupid and shallow enough to plan a wedding with a future spouse while your current one is dying of cancer, I suppose Dave is the best you can come up with:

 

Dave Matthews on playing fantasy wedding of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter: Um, I don't think so

BY NEIL NAGRAJ

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

 

What would Dave Matthews say if asked to play a wedding between John Edwards and Rielle Hunter?

 

"He didn’t ask me," Matthews says, but if he had, "I would make a fair bet that I would have said no to such an offer."

 

"Or, I would have charged him some incredible amount of money," he said, laughing.

 

The 43-year-old singer commented on his connection to the Edwards sex saga in an interview last week with “Access Hollywood.”

 

Edwards allegedly told the one-time campaign videographer they would have a rooftop New York City wedding at which the Dave Matthews Band would play after his wife, Elizabeth, died of cancer.

 

The tawdry charge was made by ex-aide Andrew Young, author of the salacious new tell-all "The Politician.

[bobbob1313]

Dave Matthes is only 43?

 

That's the most shocking thing in this whole thread.

[Sir Stewart]

So he was around 30 when the band got wicked famous? That seems about right.

[bobbob1313]

So he was around 30 when the band got wicked famous? That seems about right.

 

Hmm. I guess. It just sounded odd that he's only 43.

 

They first hit it big in like 94, though right? That's most of my life as a sentient being. Fuck.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

I'm surprised no one mentioned the sex tape until 3 minutes ago. I almost posted about it, but I got busy doing other stuff.

 

Anyways, I wonder if his bush has a similar coiffe.

 

I was going to throw in the bit about the sex tape in the OP, but I was already throwing up in my mouth.

[Sir Stewart]

They first hit it big in like 94, though right? That's most of my life as a sentient being. Fuck.

 

Hey, enjoy the "Man I am young" moments, they don't come back once they go!

[ikol]

I believe my first post on this board was calling Edwards a douchebag in 2004.

[moxiebean]

The tape, Young says, shows Edwards in a sexual encounter with a pregnant woman that Young believes to be Hunter. Young's attorneys had argued that the tape Hunter was seeking appeared to be different from the one he has.

So there's possibly another sex tape out there?

 

**shudder**

[Dude]

 

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/John_Edwards_Scandal/john-edwards-made-sex-tape-abortion-plea-aide/story?id=9680626&page=2

 

Young claims that Edwards even called upon him in late May 2007 to convince Hunter to terminate her pregnancy.

 

"The senator tried to convince her to have an abortion. ... He tried to convince me to convince Rielle to have an abortion," Young told Woodruff.

 

"She [Hunter] asked me if I were in her shoes what would I do. And if I said, 'I'm pro-choice, but after having had three kids, if you're asking me what I would do, no, I would not do it,'" Young recalled of his conversation with Hunter.

 

Young claims that Edwards was infuriated with him for not convincing Hunter and stressed that he was not certain the baby was his because Hunter was a "weird slut and a freak."

[Sir Stewart]

I bring this up in totally non-partisan way: how long before Obama's first mistress speaks up?

[u2roolz]

 

Has there been a murder?!

[Dude]

Alright, this is just comical now:

 

Young also maintains that Edwards had also asked him to arrange a fake a paternity test. "Get a doctor to fake the DNA results," Young said Edwards told him. "And he asked me ... to steal a diaper from the baby so he could secretly do a DNA test to find out if this [was] indeed his child."

 

Young said he ignored the requests.

[u2roolz]

Alright, this is just comical now:

 

Young also maintains that Edwards had also asked him to arrange a fake a paternity test. "Get a doctor to fake the DNA results," Young said Edwards told him. "And he asked me ... to steal a diaper from the baby so he could secretly do a DNA test to find out if this [was] indeed his child."

Young said he ignored the requests.

 

http://forums.viachicago.org/topic/42897-a-form-of-big-brotheror-nothing-to-worry-about/

 

You'd think he know about the above thread topic.

[Analogman]

He is not the only one (of course):

 

Gingrich

Gingrich has been married three times. He married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old. She was seven years his senior at 26 years old. They had two daughters, and he pressured her for a divorce in 1981, while she was recovering from cancer surgery. Numerous allegations that Gingrich was callous in the way he handled the divorce were made in a 1984 Mother Jones magazine article. In 1981, six months after his divorce was final, Gingrich wed Marianne Ginther. He remained married to Ginther until 2000, when they divorced. Shortly thereafter, Gingrich then married Callista Bisek, with whom he was conducting an extra-marital affair during the Congressional investigation of Bill Clinton's perjury relating to his affair with 23-year-old intern, Monica Lewinsky.

 

McCain

During this period in Florida, McCain had extramarital affairs, and the McCains' marriage began to falter, for which he later would accept blame.

 

You could post stories like that all day - from both the left and right. It goes on everyday in the lives of regular folks.

 

These guys screw up because they try to use their power and wealth to cover things up. In the days before instant access, this could be pulled off more successfully. Now, not so much. It could also be that the people in the inner circle know that there is money to be made by way of a book deal - so they are less likely to remain loyal these days.