Gothamist: John Edwards: "I Made a Serious Error in Judgment"

AggieAngst

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:49:49 -0500

I liked it back in the old days when I didn't know who politicians were screwing. :p

chiefeditor

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:49:42 -0500

We posted audio from the ABC interview at Entertonement: http://entertonement.com/collections/1790/Affair

NannyState

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:40:35 -0500

I love his mealy-mouthing "explanation". Another lawyer tries to defend himself proving once again that he has a fool for a client. We don't want some innoculating, half-baked self-psychoanalyzing bullshit, we want the dirty ugly truth so he can be sealed in this waste capsule forever and not run for anything again. As obnoxious as this clown was before this tawdry scandal, he's even more grating and self serving after. Work on that golf game, John, and get the fuck out of our collective Mandala.

nicemarmot

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:55:09 -0500

Yeah guess what, when you're a politician you get to live in a glass house because you are - in the case of most politicians - using your "morality" as part of your ploy to get elected. Edwards is one of these jerks, and therefore, he is an even more ridiculous hypocrite than most politicians. Not to mention I don't believe him about that kid - why the hell did he go visit the woman and the baby last month if their affair ended in 2006 and the kid's not his? Lie, lie, lie, lie to cover up your lies. Hopefully his career will be over and we won't have to hear about this particular scumbag anymore.

murphguide

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:00:53 -0500

If you squint, it looks like the Cookie Monster is reading the Enquirer in the bottom picture. Good old Enquirer. They would have earned some journalistic cred for breaking the story eight months before everybody else, but they went too far by throwing in the love child angle.

moonbeam

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:24:04 -0500

Jen said: "How can you campaign for president and NOT think this will emerge? Jeez!" True. I think I've led a pretty honest and tame life, but there's still no way I'd ever run for public office because I don't want to see every foolish and embarrassing thing I've ever done made public. And you have to believe there's an excellent chance it will.

Anna_Merkin

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:17:43 -0500

#14 this is is a chess game. Linking the young senator who is considered attractive and was a potential VP for Obama (or at least someone with a potential Cabinet position) to Obama, also a young senator who is considered attractive is just one additional tactic in the fear campaign from the supporters of McCain. Never mind the scandal in McCain's past about his leaving his old(er) wife for the younger, wealthier, more glamorous Cindy.

takethecanoli

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:08:13 -0500

In other news, water is wet.

moonbeam

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:58:14 -0500

Wouldn't this story be more relevant if Edwards was currently running for office? He dropped out of the presidential race many months ago and isn't a serious contender for VP so, at this point, it's nothing more than celebrity gossip.

Barbj8

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:55:33 -0500

Wonder how much Andrew Young is being paid to claim he is the father. Just goes to show that even wholesome baby-faced politicians need to keep their dick in a crate.

TSOL

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:33:26 -0500

Edwards is the sideshow here. The real news is the fact that most of the major news organizations conspired to help their party and keep this scandal from the public. What else aren't they telling us?

Jen Chung

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:11:23 -0500

@Steven--I know! How can you campaign for president and NOT think this will emerge? Jeez! And definitely click the Dallas Morning News link-- it's amazing how these things work.

Pull My Finger

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:04:49 -0500

This is just to funny for words. I just hope that kid has a chance for a good life being that he is being raised around dopes.

sweatyelectric

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:01:19 -0500

At least if you are a public figure and want to cheat on your wife, do it with someone good looking. This girl looks really used up. Same with Clinton - he couldn't do any better than Monica or Paula Jones? In this sense, Spitzer had the right idea - order out.

Mr Mel

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:46:44 -0500

mtauser, I believe you may have problems that neither Jen or bornbred can help you with.

Spiritof76

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:43:58 -0500

He didn't make a serious error in judgement. He made a pair of doozies. First the affair then the cover-up. [3] Were we be being asked to vote for anyone from the Post? Were we going to put the fate of the country in their hands? Does anyone here expect high morals from Post employees all the way up the chain to Murdoch himself?

Steven

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:40:58 -0500

In this day and age with news at your fingertips politicians still have affairs and still think they wouldn't be caught.

bornbrednewyorker

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:17:36 -0500

mtauser, do you get out of the house much? Who cares?

cucarachita

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:16:36 -0500

I love how the Post is willing to throw the first stone! I bet nobody who works there has ever had an affair, right? The campaign aide affair seems to be mandatory, doesn't it? Egos and other things inflammed....

mtauser

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:15:48 -0500

Politicans that you feel have done good for the world seem to crash and burn over sex scandals. President Clinton, Governor Eliot Spitzer, Senator John Edwards, Governor Jim McGreevy, Gary Conduit and Gary Hart. With Youtube era, all of the recent politician scandals have tracebacks. With Spitzer he gave his last interview with Gabe Pressman and when talking about Grand Central terminal I believe it was, he talked about how it generated an emotional responce. But at the same token, the NorthEastern Corridor has been carefully controlled by the ruling federal powers. I still recall how the day before the Spitzer scandal went down, someone was monitoring me from a building across me on the roof and I knew something was going to happen the next day and it did. I wasn't sure what to make of it. Spitzer could have done it but maybe not. It wasn't too long after Spitzer generated a letter to the Washington Post about the banking system. In the case of Edwards, when the National Inquirer story broke it was a shock to me at first. We know that Edwards had the affair and lied about it now. The questionmark is the child. Edwards lost a child as we know, and I was in my head thinking that Edwards really wanted another child and so he had one out of wedlock if the child is actually his. Why am I thinking about this and how is it relevent to my life? It really isn't but the public consciousness seems to let these stories take a life of their own and sometimes its better one just clears the air rather than let the story keep repeating.

zstone

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:12:50 -0500

Dear Barack, I will keep you away from ladies that I deem a threat to your family for minimum wage and a health plan and together we can save the image of our party and politicians. (Little does he know I'd actually do it for free!)