Political Punch

Do men like to play with spark?
They don't realize that spark will burn them down at the end no matter what.

So, I could see the Obama brass knuckle campaigning as they are known for behind the scenes whispering to Edwards; "Hey that Rielle thing, not good huh John?" Getting the message he withdrew suddenly as to not have the news released.

I supported John Kerry and John Edwards in 2004. "Electable", I think not, they both turned out to be losers, and were thought to be the best we had in the Democratic Party. Comparatively, there is absolutely no way that the American people have enough informaton to authentically support Obama. We cannot even come close to predicting what negative impact that Obama will have in the future.

Stepping back one can consider others who would fall into this sort of personal trap and family crisis. Of course the creepy Clintons come to mind, but the list is fairly long.

Looking at it the other way, name a politician, male or female, for whom one would be surprised to have this personal failing exposed.

Edwards blamed this on an overinflated ego and narcissism.

How will Obama ever keep his in check? It appears to be 10X that of Edwards.

Lord knows what secrets the media is hiding about Obama. The MSM is as dirty as the politicians.

This stuff makes me sick. The talking heads justified their breathless, self-righteous fixation on a former candidate's affair by claiming that it revealed something about his character. They spent a lot of time conjecturing about "what would have happened if he'd been the nominee?"

They miss an obvious parallel on the latter...there's no need for conjecture. We do in fact have a presidential nominee who cheated on his gravely ill wife. Worse, he got a marriage license before he divorced her. If the chattering class is going to continue whipping Edwards, they need to apply the same whip to McCain.

Mary Ann Wrote:

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Go ahead and register GOP and be proud of yourself when you vote for them. Just know, Mary Anne, that the current HHS Secretary seeks initiatives to limit access to birth control. If you TRULY FOLLOWED YOUR GIRL HILLARY, you would have known this a long time ago. And so would all the others voting for McCain because Hillary was wronged (like Gore, ran an inept campaign). Vote McCain, because you think he gives a crap about birth control?!

Any Man on this blog that has not been involved in discreet relationships like this should cast the first stone.

It is easy to critisize and castigate. But have you removed the log in your own eyes?

You guys need to know that whatever you write about the relationship would not hurt Senator Edwards more than it will hurt is Wife and Children.

We are all human afterall and the same color of blood runs through our vains.

The problem with America and Americans is that you expect your politicians to Super human and infallible.

I am yet to see a man that is infallible, so please get a life and quit punching the Man that is down.

What does this have to do with Obama? What Edwards did was his own doing, nothing to do with Obama. McCain had an affair with Cindy while his poor wife was trying to recover from a horrible accident, but his hands are clean I guess?

Jay Leno just had a joke on his show, saying that "Edwards was kicked off the list of speaker at the democratic convention for his bad behavior. He was replaced by Bill Clinton." - big laugh. Not so funny.

It should get as much press play as John McCains affair with Cindy Lou Hensley. Oh, wait a minute, it's already received more you say?

It's the Obama curse. Name one Obama supporter who hasn't crashed and burned or had something bad happen to them. Rezko (jail), Kennedy (brain tumor), Wright (lost his church), Jackson (disgraced civil rights leader), Edwards (predator), Michelle (ugly).

CNN is running all night coverage of this all too human situation.

Meanwhile, Russian jets are firing on Georgian tanks in what looks to be an all out war breaking out.

Priorities.

Anyways one by one they all fall more to come stay tuned.

E,NY, where have you been? Nancy Reagan has endorsed Sen. McCain ever since he won the Repub. Nom. LOL! Stop talking off the top of your head! Wonder if the Obamas will diss Edwards in the fashion you describe above!

You guys don't get it. John Edwards single handedly came up with the best pickup line ever. "My wife is in remission, would you like to F me?" It obviously worked. I think more guys are going to give this line a shot.

I give Edwards an A for pickup line originality.

And yes this is going to hurt Obama and hurt him big. In his endorsement of Obama Edwards said that Obama had great character. Well now we know that Edwards wouldn't know great character if it bit him in the posterior.

I keep posting this comment and it keeps getting deleted. I'm baffled as to why. Would someone explain to me what is the matter with my comment that ABC thinks it should not be viewed?

"I wonder if this will hurt the DNC with their most valuable voter block. Many forget, the DNC is 60% women." ----And so those offended women are going to go vote for ..... John McCain????? You should probably do a little background checking before you run away in horror from the mis-behaving Dems? Ronald and Nancy Reagan, and a number of others, have had nothing to do with John McCain after the way he treated, and cheated on, his first wife Carol, the one who stayed loyal and raised their kids during his years of captivity.

I wonder if suburban soccer moms like me are sitting at our TVs remembering when Edwards endorsed Obama over Hillary who OBVIOULSLY shared more of his opinions. I wonder if Obama knew about the bombshell then? This is just one more thing that confirms Edwards' opinion of women, namely his own wife. I wonder if this will hurt the DNC with their most valuable voter block. Many forget, the DNC is 60% women.

The sad thing is that Americans now have to rely on The National Enquirer to pursue Investigative Journalism when it comes to liberal politicians in whom the Mainstream Media have a vested interest. 2008 will go down in history as the Year Journalism Died. We've long been warned about the government curtailing a free press; we never dreamt that the press would put a clampdown on the truth all by themselves.

"In his endorsement of Obama Edwards said ..."
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With Obama's Rezko connection in the news at the time, I doubt that serious supporters of John Edwards put any stock in that supposed "endorsement".

Edwards is a VERY smart man: the fact that he had no POLITICAL praise for The CHANGEling spoke volumes.

Remember that Edwards is the only candidate who promised to END domestic spying. And it was Edwards who broke the politicians' infallibility rule, and thereby opened the floodgates, by apologizing for his vote on Iraq.

Whatever they do in supposed "privacy" -- an artifact of the past -- Edwards would be a great president, and The CHANGEling wouldn't.

Belle Star,

So Obama is responsible for the action of EVERY man he ever met?

You are obviously a very angry woman. Get a job, get some insurance and get some help. All that anger is eating you up inside and it's not pretty to watch.

Your victim-pity sprial is getting old/

Remember FDR and JFK, kiddies.

On the other hand, The CHANGEling's supposed LACK of an amorous past is quite peculiar.

And we care about this because...

I agree with you 100%, Mary Anne. My heart goes out to Elizabeth and her Family, but Edwards is a weasel and I am glad he got outed. Kudos to The Enquirer for following up on this story - the rest of the Obama media just tried to bury it. The Obama-clan motto - Do as I say, not as I do! Wonder how long it will take B0 to throw Edwards under the bus! Obama sure attracts hypocrites!

He says the kids not his....well, he said he didn't have the affair either.
Hmmmmm. Guess we know why Edwards wasn't interested in the VP slot.

The one who gets nailed in this story is not really Edwards, is the MSM. The MSM has already been exposed for their overly bias for Obama. Now the Edwards story only reinforces people's perception that the MSM is in tank with liberals.

Obama will also be damaged because fewer people will just take the MSM's glowing reports about him without suspecting that there might be something not so good unreported. So far Obama has mainly relied on the media hype to stay in the lead. We will see how much that will change once the MSM totally loses its credibility.

Right now there are several rumors being distributed online or in small newspaper: 1. Obama's forged birth certificate, 2. Obama's illegal campaign contribution from people in Gaza. 3. the whitey tape. I wonder if they will turn out to be true, who will break the news, and who will the public turn to for information.

Maury Povich should do a show on this. Have the woman, John Edwards, and Andrew Young on, do a DNA test, and do one of those "John Edwards You ARE the father" statements.

Unfortunate that it's extramarital and worse that it affects a fine person like Elizabeth Edwards who happens to be ill again. However, for those who are not members of the Edwards' immediate family circle, maybe it would be prudent to instead focus our points of light to 1) get a grip on pressing real national priorities and challenges (wars, economy, environment, education, terrorism, etc.) instead of being distracted by boogeymen or straw issues and 2) admit that the details of consensual sex - whether Republicans, Democrats, hetero or homo - for public officials cannot compare in importance to competence and a willingness to speak and act civilly against a variety of inventive scams and rationalizations imposed on the general public by those with enough privilege and power to pull it off.
This Jerry Springer audience segment of the population seems unable to meter their outrage in any proportion to the magnitude of the inciting topic, so a personal sexual dalliance by a public figure they dislike for other reasons can generate more venom than famine, genocide, the murder of a child, environmental collapses, or anything from a menu of recent institutional violations of our former Constitutional rights.
No surprise that those most resistant to recognizing this fact are also so very susceptible to having their dogma, self-righteousness and finances exploited by the very same finger-shaking, propaganda-spewing, symbol-flaunting vitriolic right wingers whom they so rabidly defend . . . with the net result being that the true-believers' habitual agitated dust-kicking over always new always irrelevant diversions only serves to provide fresh smokescreen for yet more exploitation or ordinary citizens, including themselves.

And all the attacks on them over the John Edwards story particuarily from Edwards himself now look ridiculous. The main stream media will perhaps not laugh at stories such as this when they are reported in the Enquirer and will actually do some investigating of these stories themselves.

Another reason why women should be running things. Men can't keep their pants on.

If the affair ended a long time ago, and then kid is not his, what the hell was he doing in her hotel room in the middle of the night just a few weeks ago?

watching: LOL ya, I don't think McCain is smart enough to not touch it. He will run some stupid ad that will back fire on him, again....

I Doubt McCain will touch this with a 10 foot pole ;)

Fox news covered this about 2 weeks ago but ABC, MSNBC, NBC AND CBS didn't report.

It is so nice to sit back and see poetic justice served to all the backstabbers who abandoned Hillary Clinton during her campaign. Edwards is one and I hope that many more are to follow, especially those two gasbags, Kennedy and Kerry. I'd love to see them crumble! And to think I voted for Kerry and used to respect Ted kennedy! I am registering Republican and will only vote Democratic if a woman candidate runs who I believe in. I am so done with the Democrats!

"she just had the wrong rival."

Stay tuned.

I am thrilled that John Edwards had to come out and admit he had an affair. I knew his squeaky clean image was hiding something after he stabbed Hillary Clinton in the back and jumped over to Obama's camp! I just hope that something happens to each and every one of those backstabbing liars who abandoned Hillary Clinton. It made my day!!!! And to think I would have voted for him if Hillary had not been running! What a hypocrite all the way around!

Boy this is really similar to when McCain had an affair with Cindy after his current wife had an accident and was in a wheelchair.

my real concern is why was the msm was 'sitting on this like a hen' why the cover-up?
again my prayers go out to the edwards family.

Belle Starr...OMG! The Changeling had me ROFLMAO

Who cares! Politicians stay married for all kinds of reasons. People have affairs for many reasons too. I really don't care and don't need to know.If people were judged by what they do behind closed doors instead of their ability to do their job, then there would be a lot of job openings all over the world.

I'm going to start getting my news from the National Enquirer! ABC, CBS and NBC never even bothered to report on the allegations.

Smart Republicans will uniformly be understanding and supporting of Edwards, unlike how they treated Bill Clinton. Why? The Republicans don't want to do anything that would bring up the subject of John McCain's womanizing and numerous marital infidelities during his first marriage. The Republicans desperately hope this story goes away, because if it doesn't go away soon, someone may finally point out, hey if it's such a big story with someone who's no longer even a candidate, why isn't it a bigger issue as part of the character of McCain, who is a candidate? And that might lead to further investigation (informing voters who never knew or forgot) of his past, including his participation in the Keating Five scandal, his poor academy records, his lavish spending and enjoyment of luxury, etc.

Americans think they know John McCain, but they really don't. They're just familiar with his brand image.

Just waiting to see how much "dirt" circulating about BO turns out to be true. These political folk live by a different code and they are put in and at times thrust into situations that become hard to resist. They are so different than you or I.

He was just on the frontlines, fighting his war on poverty. 100 grand and a bimmer.

McCain is an adulterer so what's the big deal of John Edwards is too?

my heart goes out to the edwards family-especially elizabeth.

If Senator Obama really did "set this up," as some of you have claimed, then you should definitely vote for him - only someone that Machiavellian can win the "war on terror."

Just a bad hair day.

The National Enquirer now has the biggest "I told you so" of its existence. Heh Heh.

Wow if Edwards was the Dem nominee we would have had two CHEATING husbands for nominees for the President: McCain who cheated on his first wife with Cindy McCain and married her only a couple of weeks after his divorce and now Edwards.

It would have been the duel of the CHEATING SPOUSES.

I can't describe how Elizabeth feels about this.
He had an affair while his wife was battling with cancer even though he made an excuse the cancer was in remission.
What's wrong with this guy...

"Uh...this is not...uh, uhh.. the John Edwards that I...uhh, uhh...that I knew for 20 years..."

"Very interesting."
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Last-minute sex scandals have ALWAYS "overtaken" those who pose an electoral threat to The CHANGEling.

If the National Enquirer can track down this info, the newspaper and tv news can too... Why did the mainstream media protect him?
Edwards is a just another politician who speaks with fork-ed tongue!

On the brighter side, McCain now has the perfect VP pick available. Bipartisan too!

Elizabeth Edwards doesn't deserve this, she stuck with that Jerk while she was and is fighting cancer. He is a piece of garbage.

Holy Mama.

Oh why oh why did you do it John?

"How can this be Obamas fault?
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Who sent Rielle Hunter? Remember that Axelrod used to WORK for Edwards. Hunter made his acquaintance in a bar, supposedly ..."

Very interesting.

You make me sick, John Edwards. But no sicker than McCain does for doing basically the same thing. I wonder if this disgusting situation with Edwards will bring to the fore the facts in the McCain affair. Politicians: God can't you keep it zipped???????

If we based a presidential candidate's ability to run the country upon their fidelity to their wives, George Bush would have been an excellent President.

"There are also so-called Obama rumors there, I wonder how many of them will turn out to be true."
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If the Dems are dumb enough to nominate him, we'll soon find out. For the moment, uber-Republicans can't find enough sweet nothings to trumpet.

ABC must have had some incontrovertible proof for Edwards to stop lying and "come clean," so I would give this weasel no kudos. However, as a female and a McCain voter, my thoughts and prayers go out to his suffering wife Elizabeth and their children. I hope John can make somehow make himself and them whole again.

SARA
now i have heard it all thats funny like obama made edwards have an affair your too funny i cant stop laughing!!

How can this be Obamas fault? What are you people yelling about. Boy talk about being into someone.

Edwards had the affair on his wife, McCain did the same, Clinton did the same.

Obama is still clean.

Independent, at the time that the latest story broke about John Edwards' late night encounter in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago, Edwards was rumored to be on Sen. Obama's short list for his VP. In addition, there was likely a major role for Edwards at the Democratic Convention. The former is now absolutely out of the question. The latter is probably out of the question as well. THAT is why this is still newsworthy.

SO what he had an affair not the end of the world clinton did mccain did left his wife ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD THERE IS MORE IMPORTANT THINGS GOING ON LIKE THE ECONOMY, UNEMPLOYMENT, ENERGRY CRISIS, ETC NOT WHO PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING WITH THAT DOESNT LOWER GAS PRICES THAT DOESNT CREATE JOBS, THAT DOESNT PUT FOOD ON YOUR TABLES JEEZ PEOPLE STICK TO THE ISSUSES!!

McCain did the same, had an affair on his wife after a tragic accident and then left her and the kids. We are allowing him to run in this race. I find it so 2 faced we made 2 politicians step down this summer because of it but we allow one to run for our highest office in our Country. Crazy!

Rumors turned out to be true. There are also so-called Obama rumors there, I wonder how many of them will turn out to be true.

SOAP OPERA: "DAYS OF OUR LIVES"
EDWARDS WHAT A JERK!! I HOPE ELIZABETH KICKS HIM TO THE CURB. IT'S FUNNY HOW THE NATIONAL INQUIRER WERE THE ONLY ONES THAT BROKE THIS STORY TWO WEEKS AGO. HE MIGHT AS WELL ADMIT THAT HIS KIDDIE.

ANOTHER OBAMA BUMB FRIENDS UNDER THE BUS..IT'S A GOOD THING OBAMA IS ON VACATION,TIMING, HMMMMM!!

"He lied"????!!!! The first qualification to be a good politician is to be a great LIAR! Under the table bribes, sex and cheating the American people require that one be able to lie and keep a straight face while doing it. "I did not have sex with that woman....!"

Now the Edwards story finally broke. The MSM should do a self-check on why they haven't caught this story early on.

A new story about Obama's illegal campaign contribution from people in GAza. I have a feeling that it will break out soon.

He has always struck me as insincere and phony. Great hair though.

Typical liberal! They all have a better way for us to live, but can't seem to take care of themselves. More of the same...do as I say, not as I do.

Not only did Edwards have an affair behind the back of his cancer stricken wife (who he so passionately professed to love) but if he didn't father her child and Andrew Young did, then he also shares women with fellow staff members. As long as no laws were broken, it is a very sad private matter but what a total sleaze. So glad he will not be President.

At least he won't be alone when Barry tosses him under the bus.

Typical liberal! They all have a better way for us to live, but can't seem to take care of themselves. More of the same...do as I say, not as I do.

Kudo's to Edwards for admitting his mistakes and lies. Takes a Big man to Come Clean, Knowing what it will cost him.

Wonder if Obama could ever be man enough to do the same? I seriously doubt it. He is probably so confused to what is a lie and what is the truth.

I think the bombshell may be Obama's forged birth certificate.

It is a gossip paper that did the investigative work. How much confidence will the public have in MSM now? The reporters have been so busy at hyping up Obama and trashing Hillary, they ignored everything else.

Now the question is how much we don't know Obama. I truly believe there will be something big coming out.

Now he's a full fledged Democrat !
Congratulations to him !

I'm surprised ABC will even be airing this!!! I guess they are trying to distance themselves from the MSM who has refused to report this until this or until that. Well here it is. I'm sure that it will be on the back page of the sports section in tomorrow's NYT!

"she just had the wrong rival".....

so far. There is still a lot of time before the election or convention.

a good argument for a female president: the men are dogs. even the ones with messiah complexes. poor elizabeth: what a man--wife has cancer; he strays. obama will be next to fall--

Kind of glad that he had the affair with the women. I thought he was gay.

If he were running vs. McCain, I'd still vote for him.

Still 90 days left. Who would guessed, and who will.

Sounds like "slick good old boy" was a player. Hope he was not on any list of BHO. Gone now so not a story but sad for his family. .

It's the Obama curse. Name one person who came out and supported Obama that hasn't gone down in flames. Just one.

That bombshell on Obama could come yet. We all know why Edwards endorsed him! BLACKMAIL! The Obama campaign blackmailed Edwards into endorsing Barack over Hillary. Think about it...Edwards' positions are much more in line with Clinton than Obama. Its not rocket science! And we all have seen how dirty Chicago Style Politics work! Look what he did to the folks that ran against him for his Senate seat. Hellllooooo!

To bad the media forgot to report on the alleged affair! Now they have some explaining to do.

The right is going to have a good laugh over this. They are so obsessed with people's personal problems, but curiously forgiving of their own. They'll never forget about Bill Clinton... but Gingrich or Vitter, well it doesn't matter, it's personal, blah, blah, blah.

I can't decide if the Democrats are auditioning for a soap opera pilot, or some kind of weird reality program. Since Edwards is no longer a candidate, his personal life is of no importance in the general scheme of things.