Yesterday John Edwards paramour Rielle Hunter was Oprah's guest. It was interesting to see "the other woman" up close as it were, and hear her speak. The words Hunter used most often were "honest" and "honesty."  But Oprah had a time digging out much honesty from  Hunter, who demurred and deflected and dodged answering questions such as (from Oprah) "Do you believe you hurt Elizabeth Edwards?" Hunter: "You'll have to ask her that." (As we know from Elizabeth Edwards she was deeply hurt, as one would expect.)
Hunter says she got involved in the affair because there was immediate, strong attraction between the two, and she wanted to bring out Edward's "honesty" whatever she means by that.
This is how I perceived Hunter: She is hard and street wise and a bulldog going after what she wants--and she wanted John Edwards, and if other people got hurt, so what. Her compulsion to get what she wanted came first. She said when Edwards and Elizabeth were renewing their wedding vows, she and Edwards  were already involved in an affair and were saying I Love You to each other. I sensed no moral qualms or regret from Hunter.
What does that say about Edwards? That he was a lying, low down duplicitous SOB--period, or maybe vulnerable to a woman(Hunter) telling him "You're Hot!"  Is that all  it takes to topple a man so he loses everything?
susil