August 8, 2008

So, now you know the real reason John Edwards pulled out of the race before Super Tuesday.

We haven’t mentioned the National Enquirer’s scoop on John Edwards’ extramarital affair for the simple reason that it never pays to jump on a salacious story that hasn’t been verified yet (despite the Enquirer’s admittedly good track record of breaking such stories).

But now Edwards himself has confessed to the affair — only after lying through his teeth while running for the Democratic nomination for POTUS:

Edwards Admits Sexual Affair;
Lied as Presidential Candidate

John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.

In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 42-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.

Edwards also denied he was the father of Hunter’s baby girl, Frances Quinn, although the one-time Democratic Presidential candidate said he has not taken a paternity test. …

According to friends of Hunter, Edwards met her at a New York city bar in 2006. His political action committee later paid her $114,000 to produce campaign website documentaries despite her lack of experience. …

Edwards made a point of telling Woodruff that his wife’s cancer was in remission when he began the affair with Hunter.

As if Elizabeth’s remission status makes a damned bit of difference?!

You cheated on your wife.

You cheated on your wife who is suffering incurable cancer — making a mockery of that “in sickness or in health” vow.

You cheated on your wife, who is a freaking goddess of a woman, and a far better human being — and progressive — than you ever were, or ever will be.

When the National Enquirer first reported the alleged Edwards-Hunter affair last October 11, Edwards, his campaign staff and Hunter vociferously denounced the report.

“The story is false, it’s completely untrue, it’s ridiculous,” Edwards told reporters then.

He repeated his denials just two weeks ago.

Edwards today admitted the National Enquirer was correct when it reported he had visited Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton last month.

The former Senator said his wife had not known about the meeting. …

And to think I was going to vote for you on Super Tuesday. You fake, you fraud, you weak, pathetic liar.

And what a first-class “sancitity of marriage” hypocrite, Mister “I Don’t Personally Support Gay Marriage Myself.”

Looks like you “don’t personally support” straight marriage either, boy.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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