...And leaves political offal aplenty. Elements of John Edwards' downfall that I found interesting include his informing the general public that he didn't love his mistress, Rielle Hunter (a standard bid for mitigation to the collective wife that we are not); that he was 99% honest when he was denying any connection to her (what exactly is the meaning of "is," anyway?); and the most awful offal, that he was as polished as the White House silver at dragging out the corpse of his son Wade for potential political gain:
In 2003, he mounted his first campaign for president. His strong showing earned him a spot as Kerry’s running mate in 2004.Shrum, then a Kerry advisor, said in a 2007 book that Kerry had qualms. Edwards, he wrote, told Kerry he was going to confide something he’d never told a soul: that after his son Wade had died, “he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he’d do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade’s ideals of service …
“Kerry was stunned, not moved,” Shrum wrote. “As he told me later, Edwards had recounted the exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before – and with the same preface, that he’d never shared the memory with anyone else.”
“I believe he gave into a very human tendency,” Shrum says now. “He wanted to be vice president and said what he had to.”
At least it was only a magic hat that John Kerry carried around in his briefcase.
Posted by floridacracker at August 15, 2008 04:35 AMOh, he's a politician first and foremost, and the guiding principle of that occupation is "Do whatever you want to, and say whatever suits you at the time. And learn how to fake emotions."
Posted by: Starla Darling at August 15, 2008 08:47 AMCreeping out Lurch himself is quite an accomplishment.
Posted by: Donnah at August 15, 2008 08:53 AMI always knew he was (is) a sleezbag. He would have taken Wade's body on the campaign trail if he thought it would have gotten him any votes.
Posted by: cindy at August 15, 2008 10:42 AMWe talked about this a bit when Mrs. Edwards was used as a typical 'useful idiot', and don't give me any shit about compassion, my sister battled cancer for 17 years...at least her husband (a fine North Carolina/Florida transplant-the best kind) kept his dick in his pants, before and after she died.
I guess the Dems would be put to the real test had were he the presumptive nominee..
Posted by: csason at August 15, 2008 02:49 PMwhatever..
were he, had he, wishda shoulda coulda put
John Edwards in a bag a dookee with all the other adulterous scum, and you'd have a bag a dookee.
so there..
back to snook fishin and weather watchin...
Posted by: csason at August 15, 2008 02:59 PMHi, Snooky! (You walked right into that, talking about snook-fishing where I could hear you.)
What grosses me out the most about Edwards, is not that he cheated on his wife. I mean, that is gross, but so many of them, both parties, do it (with both males and females) that it doesn't surprise me much, especially since he is pretty nice-looking and has a lot of charm.
What really makes me sick is 1. How he kept repeating that he did the deed while his wife was in remission, like she's supposed to be any less hurt and he's supposed to any less of a louse just because she wasn't flat on her back in the chemo ward at the time. How low.
Yeah..listening to Edwards bitch about how tough it was to cheat on his wife, secondary to her cancer treatments is like listening to a pedophile explain
why he raped a 5 year old..
He's all ate up with guilt now that he's been found out, but at the time it happened he just brushed the guilt off and went on ahead and did it anyway.
Posted by: Starla Darling at August 15, 2008 10:24 PMI don't think so Starla Darling.. that is the part people don't want to recognize, that slugs like this have no sense of guilt or shame, whatsoever.
Owen, I never thought for a hot second that Edwards really does feel genuine guilt or remorse over what he's done. I was being sarcastic. He's only sorry he got caught with his pants down, and sorry that he may have lost some valuable supporters. If he was the kind of person who would feel genuine guilt or remorse, he'd be much less likely to have done it in the first place.
Posted by: Starla Darling at August 16, 2008 02:39 PMYeah..if he had an once of any of that stuff you're talking about, he'd go shoot himself.
Posted by: csason at August 16, 2008 10:14 PMForget him shooting himself. His wife ought to do it ft for him. OUght to have done it long before now.
Posted by: Starla Darling at August 16, 2008 11:24 PMDid you ever think that the National Inquirer would be a sited source?
Don't ya know they did some high fiven, and somebody probably got a bonus too.
The only trash they printed this time was him !
The National Inquirer got burned once or twice for slander and had to put out big dollar settlements.
They make sure they have all their ducks in a row now before they put out information.
Pretty boy got caught schlepping around a hotel at 2:30AM leaving the room of his lover and he absolutely knew when he heard "Hi, I'm from the National Inquirer and I'd like to ask you a few questions." that his political career was over.
What really gets me is that both he *and* his wife continued the charade to promote his 'family man values' after he supposedly told her about the other woman during his campaign for the presidency. Both of them are hypocrites for that.
I can't wait to see who gave her all that cash to support her lifestyle.
Just maybe the IRS and the FEC will give it a thorough vetting to see if he gets to spend some time with the 'other' America he so clearly disdains.
It's scorned spouses like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Edwards that prove the point: you can feel pity for somebody without having an ounce of respect for them. They'll just take whatever their man dishes out just as long as they can still have their personal assistants and all the perks of beinga "kept woman." "Kept woman" being just a whore who has not diversified her clientele at all.
Posted by: Starla Darling at August 17, 2008 11:20 PMYou're right Gmac..again. There ARE two America's..
one that screw's the help, and one that doesn't.
I guess I must be a real ass, because when the Edward's made this grand press announcement about Mrs. Edward's cancer, I thought it was inappropriate
and it was being used to grandstand..In fact, it was a slap in the face to all those people who have had the same diagnosis, and instead of being able to stop the world and say "Hey, I am dying, please help me" they had to go home and watch this on TV.