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Gopher
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The woman who had an extramarital affair with former presidential candidate John Edwards won't seek a paternity test to prove whether he's the father of her 5-month-old child, her lawyer said Saturday...
He said her child is not his, as had been claimed in tabloid reports, saying the timing of the affair would make that impossible. A former Edwards campaign aide, Andrew Young, has publicly said the child is his.
Edwards said he was willing to take a paternity test to clear up the question.
"Happy to take a paternity test...would love to see it happen," he said in an interview with ABC News. |
CNN Reports
The plot thickens.
I would interpret this as meaning that Rielle Hunter has chosen, of her own free will, to remain loyal to John Edwards and has done this to protect him. Or Edwards has bought her off, with or without threats to enforce it, and then offered to take any test, knowing that his and her child's DNA will never become available, in a most cynically disingenuous fashion -- evading it while claiming to volunteer for it. Or some combination of the above.
This man is no mere Democratic Senator. He is the Democratic Party's former vice-presidential nominee and was a top contender for the nomination for president this election cycle. If we are going to generalize about Democrats and Republicans and scandals and morality, and I hope we will not, I wish Democratic partisans would not claim such moral superiority against Republicans. Because the more this story unfolds, the worse Edwards starts to look as a politician.
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| As for the 'white guy' comment, there was a white guy, a white woman and a black guy. Mith can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he was just making a humorous identification. |
I didn't even intend for it to be humorous. Way back when there a lot of candidates for the party to choose from, there was some underlying common wisdom that in spite of the excitement behind the first female or black candidate that maybe it would be best to go with the white guy in spite of the lack of experience or excitement in Edwards because that's the only type of person that has been able to win the presidency so far. The revelations this week have put a nice lid on that. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| As for the 'white guy' comment, there was a white guy, a white woman and a black guy. Mith can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he was just making a humorous identification. |
I didn't even intend for it to be humorous. Way back when there a lot of candidates for the party to choose from, there was some underlying common wisdom that in spite of the excitement behind the first female or black candidate that maybe it would be best to go with the white guy in spite of the lack of experience or excitement in Edwards because that's the only type of person that has been able to win the presidency so far. The revelations this week have put a nice lid on that. |
uh, didn't it come out in Spring that McCain had cheated on his scary Beavis-looking wife with some chick that looked quite a bit like her |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| mithridates wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| As for the 'white guy' comment, there was a white guy, a white woman and a black guy. Mith can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he was just making a humorous identification. |
I didn't even intend for it to be humorous. Way back when there a lot of candidates for the party to choose from, there was some underlying common wisdom that in spite of the excitement behind the first female or black candidate that maybe it would be best to go with the white guy in spite of the lack of experience or excitement in Edwards because that's the only type of person that has been able to win the presidency so far. The revelations this week have put a nice lid on that. |
uh, didn't it come out in Spring that McCain had cheated on his scary Beavis-looking wife with some chick that looked quite a bit like her |
Well, the whole process up to now in the GOP after he won has been 'let's try to learn to love McCain'. He squeaked by in South Carolina by 3%, suddenly became the frontrunner according to GOP winner-take-all rules (Huckabee got a few delegates there but McCain got the majority), and then another thin margin in Florida got him all the delegates for that state and it was pretty much all over. The GOP didn't really have all that much time to really examine their candidates and were left with this one so by then it really didn't matter what their past was. Now they're in the election with the candidate they have, not the candidate they wish they had. |
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