Elizabeth Edwards is a better woman than I am
 

After all they've been through and her unfailing support of him even in the face of incurable cancer, how in god's name did THIS happen???

Edwards Admits Affair

Part of Nightline Report

I hate to say this, but I'm at the point where I think all politicians have extra-marital affairs, lie about it and have their spouse's forgive them. I am so tainted and immune to all of this now (particularly when they are smooth-talking, southern lawyers)

Damn liberals and their infidelity.

Are we a bit miopic?

President Bill Clinton, Democrat
New Jersey Governor James McGreevey, Democrat
Idaho Senator Larry Craig, Republican
Louisiana Senator David Vitter, Republican
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Democrat
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Democrat
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Republican
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Democrat

Well at least he can admit it unlike Larry Craig...who isn't a liberal though, hmmmm.

What I don't understand is that this lady, Rielle Hunter, is claiming that Edwards fathered her 5 month old daughter.

Yet Edwards claims the affair ended in 2006.

The baby was born Feb. 27, 2008. I'm not a mother, and I don't know the particulars about conception, but that would have put the date of conception around May of '07.

How can the baby be his?

Reports said that Ms. Hunter will not persue a paternity test. Somewhere today I heard that another man admitted to being the father. Can't remember where I heard it or the source.

Do we need to call Maury?

It says it in the link that nittany posted. Someone involved in Edwards campaign says he's the father.

Yet, Ms. Hunter hasn't said he was. I was looking for the source that I read where it said that she wanted to prove Edwards was the father, but I can't find it.

The fact that she doesn't want a paternity test anymore just shows to me that Edwards couldn't be the father, and she knows it.

I just read something on theHuffington Post that it was her sister, Melissa, that wants to prove it. From a couple of articles that I Googled under her name, it said Rielle is in hiding.

"The family of John Edwards’ former mistress, Rielle Hunter, is challenging the former senator to take a DNA paternity test after his claim that he did not father Hunter’s 6-months-old child.
In the first reaction from Hunter’s family, her younger sister Melissa told ABC News that Edwards should immediately follow through on his pledge to take a paternity test.
“I would challenge him to do so,” the sister said.
“Somebody must stand up and defend my sister,” she said. “I wish that those involved would refrain from bad-mouthing my sister.”"

So what was Newt Gingrich's excuse? :rolleyes:

The Enquirer also claims that people close to Hunter have been saying that she's in love with Edwards and truly believes they will be together in the near future.... how creepy...it's like she's waiting for Elizabeth to pass :mad:

All day on the news, I have heard that Hunter refuses to take a paternity test and that she wants to keep her life private! Is she kidding? This really makes me believe John is the father. It's like she's protecting him!

I couldn't have said it better! ;)

In the political arena, philandering is equal-opportunity. Liberal, conservative, black, white, Catholic, Protestant, Gay, Straight....you name it, they all screw around.

I'm sure she's beating his butt behind closed doors. If she can muster the strength.

Though not married at the time, Strom Thurmond had an illegitimate daughter as well, and I'm pretty sure he's not a liberal.

I'm not saying one group or the other does it more often, I think people in general are equally prone to infidelity regardless of their politics.