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Life & Events > John Edwards Admits to Affair.
 

John Edwards Admits to Affair.

Well,well what do we have here.
This is the lowest of him,screwing around while his wife
was battling cancer.
Just to think that he almost got nominated for President.
They talk about Bill Clinton.
Do you realized all the wasted vote that he got?
How could him run for this?Poor Elizabeth.
Guess they all do it.Who is next.
Remember that song by Aretha Franklin?
Shame,Shame,Shame.He try to set moral value.
Surprised that it was a woman and not a man.LOL

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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.

Edwards told ABC News that he lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter but said that he didn't love her. He said he has not taken a paternity test but knows he isn't the father because of the timing of the affair and the birth.

A former Edwards campaign staffer claims he is the father, not Edwards.

Hunter's daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter, was born on Feb. 27, 2008, and no father's name is given on the birth certificate filed in California.

The National Enquirer first reported on the affair in October 2007, and Edwards denied it.

"The story is false," he told reporters. "It's completely untrue, ridiculous." He professed his love for his wife, Elizabeth, who had an incurable form of cancer, saying, "I've been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years and as anybody who's been around us knows, she's an extraordinary human being, warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known. So the story's just false."

Last month, the Enquirer carried another story stating that its reporters had accosted Edwards in a Los Angeles hotel where he had met with Hunter after her child's birth. Edwards called it "tabloid trash," but he generally avoided reporters' inquiries, as did his former top aides.

In the interview, scheduled to air on ABC News' "Nightline," Edwards said the tabloid was correct when it reported on his meeting with Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hotel last month.

Most mainstream news organizations refrained from reporting the story, but newspapers in Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C., recounted the Enquirer's allegations in prominent articles on Thursday. Edwards acknowledged the affair on Friday afternoon, traditionally a slow-news period even when the Olympic Games' opening ceremonies are not preoccupying millions of Americans.

Edwards was a top contender for the Democratic nomination for president, pursuing his party's nod even after announcing that his wife's cancer had returned.

He placed second in the Iowa caucuses last January but dropped out of the race a few weeks later. He has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential choice for Barack Obama. The former North Carolina senator was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2004.

The Edwardses have three children - Cate, Jack and Emma Claire. Another son, Wade, died at age 16 in a 1996 car accident.

David Bonior, Edwards' campaign manager for his 2008 presidential bid, said Friday he was disappointed and angry after hearing about Edwards' confession.

"Thousands of friends of the senators and his supporters have put their faith and confidence in him and he's let them down," said Bonior, a former congressman from Michigan. "They've been betrayed by his action."

Asked whether the affair would damage Edwards' future aspirations in public service, Bonior replied: "You can't lie in politics and expect to have people's confidence."

In 2006, Edwards' political action committee paid $100,000 in a four-month span to a newly formed firm run by Hunter, who directed the production of just four Web videos, one a mere 2 1/2 minutes long.

The payments from Edwards' One America Committee to Midline Groove Productions LLC started on July 5, 2006, five days after Hunter incorporated the firm in Delaware.

Midline provided "Website/Internet services," according to reports that Edwards' PAC filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Midline's work product consists of four YouTube videos showing Edwards in informal settings as he prepares to make speeches in Storm Lake, Iowa, and Pittsburgh, as he prepares for an appearance on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and travels in Uganda in 2006.

Edwards' PAC followed the six-figure payment with two smaller payments totaling $14,461, the last on April 1, 2007.

At the time Hunter was compiling the videos in 2006, Edwards was preparing a run for president.

Episode One of the four videos captures a conversation between Edwards and an unseen woman as the two chat aboard a plane about an upcoming speech in Storm Lake, Iowa.

Cutting between clips of the speech and the conversation with the woman, Edwards touches on his standard political themes, declaring that government must do a better job of addressing the great issues of the day, from poverty and education to jobs and the war in Iraq.

"I want to see our party lead on the great moral issues - yes, me a Democrat using that word - the great moral issues that face our country," Edwards tells the crowd. "If we want to live in a moral, honest just America and if we want to live in a moral and just world, we can't wait for somebody else to do it. We have to do it."

The sound track for the six-minute video is the song "True Reflections" which begins with these words: "When you look into a mirror, do you like what's looking at you? Now that you've seen your true reflections, what on earth are you gonna do?"

The video entitled "Plane Truths," opens with Edwards relaxing in his seat on the plane, telling the unseen woman that "I actually walked the country to see who I am, who I really am, but I don't know what the result of that will be.

Edwards adds: "But for me personally, I'd rather be successful or unsuccessful based on who I really am, not based on some plastic Ken doll that you put up in front of audiences, that's not me, you know?"

posted on Aug 8, 2008 1:55 PM ()

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I cannot imagine in this day and age that a politician this high in the food chain thought his affair would not be discovered! What an idiot!
comment by dragonflyby on Aug 10, 2008 7:13 AM ()
I must agree with James and AJ. Also can understand yoyur feelings about it Fredo xx
comment by itsjustme on Aug 10, 2008 3:44 AM ()
Everyone loses. He loses his credibility. His wife is dying and she is humiliated and loses her trust in his love. The other woman loses because he repudiates her. This is a no win situation.
comment by elderjane on Aug 9, 2008 10:37 AM ()
I agree with AJ 100%. They all screw around in one form or another, they all lie; some get caught because political opponents and the media make it their life's work to snoop and pry until they come up with some dirt and blow it out of proportion. It would be refreshing if people would mind their own beeswax.
comment by troutbend on Aug 9, 2008 9:11 AM ()
Jesus Accused of having a wife and child? You make it seem like a crime.
comment by clovis on Aug 9, 2008 12:24 AM ()
Come on Fredo... You know that politics is the art of telling lies as if they are the truth... I just love this comment. "You can't lie in politics and expect to have people's confidence." what utter rubbish... remember weapons of mass destruction? That lying president and his followers are trusted more than their opponents when it comes to defending the country. I agree with AJ. The guy is very good looking. Women and men are all after a piece of him. He was lonely and upset with his wife so illl. you and I know that casual sex means absolutely nothing... and it shouldn't be a big deal in this man's case.
comment by clovis on Aug 9, 2008 12:22 AM ()
Hey, at least unlike the Republicans, there was no Meth, Diapers, Prostitutes, Rubber wet suits, Under-age Pages or Bathroom stalls in the story...

I know what AJ meant thought, Policy issues are more important in the scheme of things than their personal matters.
comment by ekyprogressive on Aug 8, 2008 3:13 PM ()
1. We've been lucky here. He could have been the candidate and had this story come out...?
2. Never trust a politician who says he has a clean record or past.
3. Everyone has some level of libido. People have even accused Jesus of having a wife and child.
comment by jondude on Aug 8, 2008 2:58 PM ()
I am trying to figure out when the private lives of everyone on the planet became a news item. Kennedy slept around a lot and no one seemed to make a big deal about it. I could care les who is sleeping with whom. Not because I necessarily think it is OK. But because it is really none of my business.
AJ
comment by lunarhunk on Aug 8, 2008 2:40 PM ()

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