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You Knew a Quote Like This Was Bound to Surface

August 09, 2008 9:42 PM

"I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen."

-- John Edwards on Bill Clinton, February 1999.

(Hat tip, Andrew.)

- jpt

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In this comment LOUIS writes the following words

"again, the story of infidelity of a democrat trumps the story of treason of a Republican. President Bush and VP Cheney should be charged with treasonous acts against the United States. There is no question of the evidence against them and no excuse for their actions beyond hubris".

Please realize that any European Parlementary system could have easily gotten rid of the law breaking leaders.

Posted by: Jack van Dijk | Aug 11, 2008 2:26:17 PM

again, the story of infidelity of a democrat trumps the story of treason of a Republican. President Bush and VP Cheney should be charged with treasonous acts against the United States. There is no question of the evidence against them and no excuse for their actions beyond hubris.

Posted by: louis | Aug 11, 2008 10:50:57 AM

Who is this gal Karma and how does she manage to keep comin' round? Maybe she needs some investigative reporting??

John 8:32

Posted by: Nancy Burhans | Aug 10, 2008 9:48:14 PM


Wow... this is a reminder to never judge others. It makes you wonder how or if his affair played into his throwing his support behind Obama. I feel sad for all of his supporters. It must be difficult. This is a good reason not to idolize presidential candidates. They are after all human beings.

Posted by: rafraf | Aug 10, 2008 8:35:17 PM

A lot of sympathy for Ms Edwards but remember she married this sleazeball and he didn't turn into a sleazeball just this week.

Posted by: Moos | Aug 10, 2008 7:19:07 PM

Jake, let's get off this topic...Edwards is a narcissist and a has-been. Let's worry about why BHO has all kinds of foreign donations, such as the two brothers from Gaza who gave him almost 30 K and lots of others as noted on this

Some real news, please.

Posted by: Hillary Supporter | Aug 10, 2008 4:56:52 PM

There is no comparison between
what Clinton did and Edwards
did. The quote correctly
describes the disgrace Clinton
brought to the nation's highest
office.

Edwards showed he's a wimp
when cornered by a trash mag's
reporters. Instead of just
brushing them aside he started
blabbing away without discretion.

Posted by: anon | Aug 10, 2008 4:50:55 PM

I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen."

-- John Edwards on Bill Clinton, February 1999.

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What goes around comes around.

Posted by: Patti | Aug 10, 2008 3:26:19 PM

One by one they are falling. I don't even need to name them, just take a look back at all of those self righteous backstabbing individuals that have tried to discredit the Clintons at one point or ther other, especially those that recently insulted and turned their backs on Hillary, one by one they are falling, whether by disgrace or death, do he research. God don't like Ugly and Karma is truly a *****.

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All well, maybe true. Still doesn't erase the fact that Bill Clinton was a humiliation, not only to his country but to his wife and daughter.

Makes me throw up when he admitted that he cried when Chelsea read the Starr Report. Shoulda thought of that Bill, you just weren't some working stiff on K Street taking advantage of an intern from GW...

Sorry, no passes for Bill Clinton on this one.

Posted by: Kate | Aug 10, 2008 3:05:31 PM

"What's the difference between the way the Americans and the French regard extramarital affairs?"
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One supposes they feel somewhat similarly about using the badger game to oversee, then disable -- not to mention milking for hundreds of thousands, at least, dollars -- the campaign of the only "Democratic" candidate worthy of the name.

Posted by: Belle Starr | Aug 10, 2008 2:01:02 PM

What's the difference between the way the Americans and the French regard extramarital affairs? The Americans worry if their politicians are having an extramarital affair, while the French worry if their politicians are NOT. But despite these differing perspectives, it still behooves a candidate like Sen. Edwards to be a little more circumspect in passing judgment and expressing moral outrage, lest he be hoist with his own petard. Oops--it seems he has been!

Posted by: chuck | Aug 10, 2008 1:25:18 PM

Kim: I couldn't have said it better myself! That was the first thing I said when I heard John Edwards admitted to the affair. I said, "Now I want to see Bob Casey from PA, Chris Dodd, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, etc, etc, go down from some scandal or karma as you stated. They were a bunch of backstabbers and if you live by the sword than you shall die by the sword. It is wonderful seeing justice served to these backstabbing creeps! And, I am thrilled to hear that they convinced Bill Clinton to give the remarks at the convention before Obama announces his vice-president selection. It means only one thing. They are offering something big up to the Clintons because they have found out that Obama didn't keep pulling ahead by leaps and bounds in the polls since his nomination and they are worried about getting him elected. Isn't that poetic justice? He sexually bashed Hillary the entire campaign AND NOW HE NEEDS A GIRL TO HELP HIM GET ELECTED! lolololol I love it! He is such a pompous, elitist, superego sexist pig and I hope that he still loses to McCain. The Dems need to be taught a hard lesson so they cut the you know what!

Posted by: Mary Anne | Aug 10, 2008 1:23:16 PM

One by one they are falling. I don't even need to name them, just take a look back at all of those self righteous backstabbing individuals that have tried to discredit the Clintons at one point or ther other, especially those that recently insulted and turned their backs on Hillary, one by one they are falling, whether by disgrace or death, do he research. God don't like Ugly and Karma is truly a *****.

Posted by: Kim | Aug 10, 2008 12:43:31 PM

The real issue for serious
people is the invasion of
private space by rogue,
crude tabloids not the
private recreational
activities of public figures.

Posted by: anon | Aug 10, 2008 12:31:12 PM

Why did the National Enquirer break this story? The mainstream media is pathetic.

As far as people saying this should be private. Sorry, but no. MANY people vote for others based on character, and not policy. This story should have broken during the primaries. And now that he's a potential VP or cabinet pick, we needed to know this.

If it were a minor indiscretion, a one time thing, so be it. We all make mistakes and we should all forgive and move on. But when your wife is in the hospital with cancer and you cheat, then you resume that affair after you find out she has another, interminable form of cancer - you crossed the line from a mistake to being downright despicable.

This man's political future is over, and for good reason.

Also, we should find out where the funds came from that he used to set up his mistress.

Posted by: JA | Aug 10, 2008 12:17:17 PM

I think the riffraff reporters
and cameramen from trash tabloids
like the NE should be permanently
restrained by law from being
anywhere within a mile of their quarries.


Posted by: anon | Aug 10, 2008 12:08:22 PM

I can not vote for someone who had committed adultery, whether it is Clinton or McCain. What I find as hypocrisy are the religious right voting for McCain. When it was a Democrat, who commits adultery they say they can't vote for someone who commits adultery, but all of a sudden they change their tune and decide McCain is ok. Why don't they stick with their moral principals now?

Posted by: The Unshrub | Aug 10, 2008 12:04:32 PM

How did the National Enquiror's reporter get those photo's from inside a closed hotel room? Was it done by using a pin hole camera inserted from a hole drilled in the wall from a joining room? If so then they should be sued for invasion of privacy, extortion and any other applicable charges.

Posted by: Saddlesablazing | Aug 10, 2008 11:58:35 AM

Please tell me how the Nat Enquiror reporter got photos from inside a closed hotel room??? Did they breeak the law using a pin hole camera stuck thru a hole they drilled in the next room??? If so I think they needed to be prosecuted for invasion of privacy.

Posted by: depravedmaniac | Aug 10, 2008 11:55:38 AM

The difference between Clinton
and Edwards is that Clinton did
it on the job while at work in
the White House with a barley
legal intern.


Posted by: anon | Aug 10, 2008 11:50:25 AM

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