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Enquirer: John Edwards Kicked Out of the House
According to the National Enquirer, disgraced 2008 Democratic Presidential nominee 2nd runner-up John Edward
s has been living apart from wife Elizabeth since July of 2008:
John Edwards was the candidate that many of us believed in so strongly that we were willing to dismiss increasingly better-documented stories about an affair, dating back to 2007.
In fact, the first writer to call it, Huffington Post's Lee Stranahan, was banned from Daily Kos (and wished out of existence by its founder) for his trouble. This was after Edwards had been photographed egressing Hunter's hotel.
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The real shame of it is that Edwards' work on poverty issues was so very important, and his disgrace has damaged that.
As for the uncharitable attitude so many have taken towards Elizabeth Edwards, I would ask them to magnify their own sense of betrayal exponentially, then imagine what it was like for her to live with this.
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s has been living apart from wife Elizabeth since July of 2008:(John Edwards') cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth kicked him out of their bedroom more than two years ago when he confessed to cheating on her, and the two are now living apart, sources say.This is a sad footnote to a tragic study in ego. The Edwards affair is also a huge black eye for journalism, and for the liberal community.
While the disgraced presidential candidate occasionally spends time at their sprawling mansion for the sake of their two younger children, the couple - who married in 1977 - sleep apart, insiders say.
...When he publicly confessed the affair to ABC News after The ENQUIRER caught him with Rielle and her love child Frances at a Los Angeles hotel in July 2008, Elizabeth tossed him out of their Chapel Hill, N.C., home, the source said.
John Edwards was the candidate that many of us believed in so strongly that we were willing to dismiss increasingly better-documented stories about an affair, dating back to 2007.
In fact, the first writer to call it, Huffington Post's Lee Stranahan, was banned from Daily Kos (and wished out of existence by its founder) for his trouble. This was after Edwards had been photographed egressing Hunter's hotel.
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The real shame of it is that Edwards' work on poverty issues was so very important, and his disgrace has damaged that.
As for the uncharitable attitude so many have taken towards Elizabeth Edwards, I would ask them to magnify their own sense of betrayal exponentially, then imagine what it was like for her to live with this.
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Mr. Serene
2:53PM May 13th 2009
John Edwards did wrong. No question about it. If his wife chooses to be unforgiving, that is her business. However, Elizabeth Edwards is not so sympathetic a character given her charade during John's Presidential Campaign. One has to wonder, he provided very, very well for her and their children. (I saw the Oprah show.) Since she has the house and his continued financial support, you wonder why she wrote a book trashing him. Does she fear their children will love him after she is gone (from her cancer)?
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Bellinda
4:44PM May 13th 2009
What absolute B.S.! that ELIZABETH EDWARDS is not such a SYMPATHETIC CHARACTER???? What STEEL TOED BOOT crushed your EMPATHY valve? How the hell could she not be a sympathetic character? Whatever your thoughts are on her supporting her husband in his bid for the Presidency, this woman has endured the DEATH OF A CHILD...and then she is stricken with cancer that she fights through and thinks that she has conquered only to find that it has returned and that there is NO HOPE FOR HER SURVIVAL. All of the grand homes in all of the world cannot make up for that fact that she is suffering this devastating disease AND she IS GOING TO DIE in the NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE...AND she has three living children...two of them younger ones that will be left without a MOTHER. THEN there is the fact that this husband that she asked fidelity from and trusted that he was giving it and put her bout with CANCER on a back burner to support HIS DREAM OF BEING PRESIDENT...had an affair with this constantly name changing and shape shifting, not so beautiful 'temptress' MISTRESS who CONVENIENTLY gets pregnant with his child and chances are that what is weighing on ELIZABETH EDWARDS' mind most heavily is the knowing that when she dies, MOST LIKELY, her husband will marry his MISTRESS and move her and his other daughter in with ELIZABETH's children!!!
Maybe it will make ELIZABETH EDWARDS so damned pissed off that her adrenaline override will counteract the cancer! Would that that were so! This woman deserves nothing but concern and admiration for doing her DAMNEDEST to hold her family together! It's appalling that anyone would suggest anything else. I, for one, am also disappointed as hell in JOHN EDWARDS. For quite sometime, I was very torn between voting for him, HILLARY CLINTON, and BARACK OBAMA. My lovely but Republican mother was even impressed by JOHN EDWARDS. He COULD have made a wonderful President and certainly have done more to help the poor than any President in a long time and he not only let down and SOLD OUT his own family with his unseemly behavior but he let down and SOLD OUT all of the people that believed in him and worse than that...the people that NEEDED him to be a voice for them.
Shame on you, JOHN EDWARDS. Shame on you and shame on RIELLE HUNTER and WHATEVER YOUR NAME USED TO BE BEFORE YOU CHANGED IT. It seems that her father's genes of 'unfairness' of play have been transferred to her as shown with in her behavior. Tragically, he killed a HORSE/HORSES and SHE...RIELLE emotionally killed a whole family and the DREAMS OF MANY PEOPLE THAT SUPPORTED JOHN EDWARDS.
Maybe it will make ELIZABETH EDWARDS so damned pissed off that her adrenaline override will counteract the cancer! Would that that were so! This woman deserves nothing but concern and admiration for doing her DAMNEDEST to hold her family together! It's appalling that anyone would suggest anything else. I, for one, am also disappointed as hell in JOHN EDWARDS. For quite sometime, I was very torn between voting for him, HILLARY CLINTON, and BARACK OBAMA. My lovely but Republican mother was even impressed by JOHN EDWARDS. He COULD have made a wonderful President and certainly have done more to help the poor than any President in a long time and he not only let down and SOLD OUT his own family with his unseemly behavior but he let down and SOLD OUT all of the people that believed in him and worse than that...the people that NEEDED him to be a voice for them.
Shame on you, JOHN EDWARDS. Shame on you and shame on RIELLE HUNTER and WHATEVER YOUR NAME USED TO BE BEFORE YOU CHANGED IT. It seems that her father's genes of 'unfairness' of play have been transferred to her as shown with in her behavior. Tragically, he killed a HORSE/HORSES and SHE...RIELLE emotionally killed a whole family and the DREAMS OF MANY PEOPLE THAT SUPPORTED JOHN EDWARDS.
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(3) bob sprangler
3:25PM May 13th 2009
John Edwards needs excitement in his life like everybody else. If he can't get it from his own wife--you got to look elsewhere!!
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(-3) Truth
3:26PM May 13th 2009
Every so often, Tommy almost hits on an important truth. In this case he dances with truth on the edge of the massive corruption of the liberal controlled media. The Edwards story was pigeon holed by the mainstream media. They avoided it like it was the Swine Flu.
Needless to say, The Daily Kos is incapable of impartiality, or integrity, and react to bad news for liberals in the typical frothing, hate driven, kill the messenger method they are infamous for. No one in their right mind expects truth, decency, or rationality out of those idiots, but they do expect a high level of integrity from the major media sources, or should I say, we used to.
How is it that they ALL "missed" the Edwards story? They didn't miss anything. They ignored it. Our media is as corrupt as the state run media was in Soviet Russia. The Edwards story is minute in comparative importance to other stories ignored by the media, especially since Obama came on to the scene.
If the framers of our imperiled constitution were writing it in today's political reality, they would be calling out for Separation of Media and State. They would barely concern themselves with religion.
If one could go back to the Revolutionary period for a few weeks it would become apparent that in that era the Church was the media. Information was controlled and disseminated by the Church of England. The Church, as THE media, had tremendous control of what people were allowed to do and think. Our media today has the same power, and is just as corrupt. If we want to maintain freedom in this country, we need to create a firewall between the media and the government. Separation of Media and State IS the cornerstone of liberty and Freedom.
Needless to say, The Daily Kos is incapable of impartiality, or integrity, and react to bad news for liberals in the typical frothing, hate driven, kill the messenger method they are infamous for. No one in their right mind expects truth, decency, or rationality out of those idiots, but they do expect a high level of integrity from the major media sources, or should I say, we used to.
How is it that they ALL "missed" the Edwards story? They didn't miss anything. They ignored it. Our media is as corrupt as the state run media was in Soviet Russia. The Edwards story is minute in comparative importance to other stories ignored by the media, especially since Obama came on to the scene.
If the framers of our imperiled constitution were writing it in today's political reality, they would be calling out for Separation of Media and State. They would barely concern themselves with religion.
If one could go back to the Revolutionary period for a few weeks it would become apparent that in that era the Church was the media. Information was controlled and disseminated by the Church of England. The Church, as THE media, had tremendous control of what people were allowed to do and think. Our media today has the same power, and is just as corrupt. If we want to maintain freedom in this country, we need to create a firewall between the media and the government. Separation of Media and State IS the cornerstone of liberty and Freedom.
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(0) jrivas2956
4:33PM May 13th 2009
The far left wing media operates on its own agenda. They report only what they want us to know!
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(0) rtcraw
4:39PM May 13th 2009
Well- it's getting where you can't do or get away with anything these days, Edwards is a typical politician, runs his mouth, does nothing, gets his ass caught, lies, then under so much remorse he tells some of the truth, media wears him out, wife throws him out, he and his hand are much closer now!!!
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(1) m7241
4:50PM May 13th 2009
"This is a sad footnote to a tragic study in ego. The Edwards affair is also a huge black eye for journalism, and for the liberal community.
John Edwards was the candidate that many of us believed in so strongly that we were willing to dismiss increasingly better-documented stories about an affair, dating back to 2007."
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Don't worry about journalism getting a black eye. That horse left the barn a long time ago. You and 99% of those that claim to be a journalist are nothing more than shills pumping out propaganda. A journalist would report the facts and let the reader come to their own conclusion. A journalist would rather have their fingernails pulled off than let their opinion color a story they are reporting. Call yourself an editorial writer or a propaganda spinner. Anything but a journalist. Every time you color a story with your own opinion and present it as journalism you give the true journalists that came before you a black eye. When the National Enquirer proves to have been closer to the truth than you, it is time to examine the integrity of your work.
John Edwards was the candidate that many of us believed in so strongly that we were willing to dismiss increasingly better-documented stories about an affair, dating back to 2007."
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Don't worry about journalism getting a black eye. That horse left the barn a long time ago. You and 99% of those that claim to be a journalist are nothing more than shills pumping out propaganda. A journalist would report the facts and let the reader come to their own conclusion. A journalist would rather have their fingernails pulled off than let their opinion color a story they are reporting. Call yourself an editorial writer or a propaganda spinner. Anything but a journalist. Every time you color a story with your own opinion and present it as journalism you give the true journalists that came before you a black eye. When the National Enquirer proves to have been closer to the truth than you, it is time to examine the integrity of your work.
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(2) David S.
5:23PM May 13th 2009
While I never thought John Edwards was Presidential material, I did think he was a good guy who was devoted to his wife and family. What a dog he turned out to be, putting it mildly. I feel for any spouse who is on the other end of an affair. It is demoralizing, and to have that played out in the media is worse. Yet I have to wonder also why Elizabeth Edwards not only writes this tell-all book, then promotes it on television shows. It is not as if she needs the money, and she and John are not in the middle of some bitter divorce proceedings. She is -- for now, standing by her man -- and defending him in this tawdry affair. Elizabeth is not the first woman to do this, for sure.
A very odd and unfortunate situation all the way around, especially for their two very young children.
A very odd and unfortunate situation all the way around, especially for their two very young children.
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