Wait, Edwards whose wife has breast cancer?
Yep.
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He denied fathering the woman's daughter.
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
'Safe'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Aug 08, 2008 10:33:43 am PDT #1805 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sarameg - Aug 08, 2008 10:34:28 am PDT #1806 of 10003
Congrats, shrift!
Stephanie - Aug 08, 2008 10:34:49 am PDT #1807 of 10003
Trust my rage
What a piece of shit.
eta: Obviously, that was re: Edwards, not re: shrift
Sophia Brooks - Aug 08, 2008 10:36:07 am PDT #1808 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He denied fathering the woman's daughter.
Holy Carp! He was my favorite for president (except kuchinich)
Also, it seems like they call every indiscretion "an affair"-- while to me "an affair" implies some emotional ties that just "cheating" does not. Not that they aren't both not good things.
Jesse - Aug 08, 2008 10:37:14 am PDT #1809 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also, Edwards has copped to his affair. So I guess folks knew that and that's one reason why nobody was talking about him as a VP candiate.
Did someone other than the Enquirer finally pick up the story?
It was time to go home for me! So I am home, with makings for what could be a delicious cous cous salad.
Tom Scola - Aug 08, 2008 10:38:19 am PDT #1810 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Did someone other than the Enquirer finally pick up the story?
ABC says that in an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Mr. Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with the woman, Rielle Hunter, but did not father her child, as has been reported by the National Enquirer.
tommyrot - Aug 08, 2008 10:38:37 am PDT #1811 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Funny: I found him
Barb - Aug 08, 2008 10:43:09 am PDT #1812 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
Yay, Shrift!!
When Edwards was still in the presidential race, a friend of mine who used to work in trial law and whose bosses were high enough muckety mucks that they did the social rounds with Edwards when he was still working as an attorney, told me that she could never vote for him because she'd seen the sorts of things he was capable of as an attorney. In her words, "He's the guy who'd sell his grandmother in order to get a favorable verdict."
DavidS - Aug 08, 2008 10:48:23 am PDT #1813 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In her words, "He's the guy who'd sell his grandmother in order to get a favorable verdict."
That's not necessarily a bad quality in a chief executive. I mean, his job was to get a favorable verdict. And I don't really know his grandma.
lisah - Aug 08, 2008 10:49:05 am PDT #1814 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
a friend of mine who used to work in trial law and whose bosses were high enough muckety mucks that they did the social rounds with Edwards when he was still working as an attorney, told me that she could never vote for him because she'd seen the sorts of things he was capable of as an attorney.
My brother, who is an attorney in NC, has met him and said he was nice enough but his hair was freakishly immobile.