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Audacity of Truth
"Diplomacy":
"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
His royal phoniness finally admits to fathering love child
The writing has been on the wall for months now, in spite of his routine lies about it. Via a heartbroken Charlotte Observer:
Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards admitted Thursday morning that he is the father of Frances Quinn Hunter, the 2-year-old daughter of a campaign aide with whom he had an affair.
Edwards, who became involved with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter during a presidential campaign but later denied fathering the child, issued a statement saying he was Quinn’s father and that he was helping support the young girl.
“I am Quinn’s father,” Edwards said in the statement.
“I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves. I have been able to spend time with her during the past year and trust that future efforts to show her the love and affection she deserves can be done privately and in peace.”
The admission was part of a report on NBC’s Today Show. Edwards did not appear on camera, because, the network said, of legal ramifications related to an ongoing federal investigation into whether campaign money was used to try to cover up the affair. Edwards has denied any wrongdoing.
I don’t really have a heck of a lot to add to this admission outside of what’s already been said by others. My feelings on Edwards are well documented here at this blog. I’ve said all along that the man is a chronic liar and snake, one of the worst of the bunch in the political arena at saying one thing and doing something different. Those of us here in NC who weren’t captivated enough by his “boyish good looks” and “aw shucks” artificial Southern charm enough to elect him to the US Senate years ago saw and have seen through his duplicity all along. That he would stoop so low as try to hide an innocent child he had out with a woman other than his wife just so he could win a shot at the Oval Office is a new low, even for him – the same guy who not only carried on the affair as his wife battled cancer, but who also used that cancer to raise campaign cash.
As someone who has witnessed personally how “extracurricular activities” can crush a relationship (whether you are married or not) and kill the cheated upon person’s self-esteem and spirit, I wish him nor his family no ill will whatsoever, especially his 2 y/o daughter, who will find out one day that her dad tried to deny she was his on a national stage, and his wife as she battles cancer. In fact, it sounds like they’ve worked things out. Great. I also know that there is a strong likelihood that this will mean the end of his attempts at running for president. That’s about the only good thing that’s come out of this whole sad, pathetic drama.
BTW, the Enquirer – the tabloid that broke the stories about the affair and the love child to begin with when the liberal media refused to run with it – plans on submitting the articles they did on this story for Pulitzer consideration. Another issue came out this week with allegations from a North Carolina bartender that in late December he repeatedly hit on her and tried to get her to go to his vacation home with him for sex.
Whatever. Time to move on.
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Yes, there are two Americas.
One America accepts its responsibilities without fraud, lies, or deception.
The other America has to be dragged kicking and screaming into taking responsibility.
We know which one Edwards inhabits.
I think it’s time that this narcissist be removed from our vocabulary and banish him into obscurity. I bet he still thinks he’ll make a comeback.
He’s got some sort of a book coming out or whatever, I’ve heard. You know this narcissistic self-adoring fop has something up his trial-lawyer sleeve besides an arm—count on this phony to keep on dodging and trying to scam us all.
Game Change makes Elizabeth to be an unindicted co-conspirator who pushed this empty suit to run for POTUS even after knowing about his running around—she believed herself deserving of First Lady status.
We all knew this already,what a jerk just now admitting it.Now I hope we hear no more from this cad.
“I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves.”
Too late, Jerko. That starts with being married to the child’s mother.
What the child doesn’t deserve (and no child ever did) is having a pompous, lying, cheating, empty-suit ass for 1/2 of his/her genetic makeup that he/she will never be able to count on for anything.
John Edwards was the speaker for my law school graduation. Because I was one of the 3rd Year Class Reps, I was on the committee for selecting a speaker – and I fought HARD against getting Edwards. (This was 2005 – he had just been Kerry’s VP pick and not yet a laughingstock.) I was overruled – and it could not have been better.
His entire speech was just a straight-up stump speech about his new anti-poverty initiative and that we should all either work pro-bono for it or just give him money after we start our jobs.
At the parties that night, I truly relished hearing some very liberal friends talk about how they were flat-out disgusted with Edwards and his inappropriate speech. One for the ages.
But ST – I was SO sorry to read about your own experience. I know I’m not alone on this blog when I say that we love you and are grateful for all the work you do here.
“Extracurricular Activities” – Hey, let’s make Adultery (as in Ten Commandments forbidden Adultery) right up there with being in the School Play! 
Why did he decided to come clean now? I am sure this has to do with something to make money for sure, not angst or guilt. Sort of like the Game Change authors who knew so much about Obama et al, yet decided to keep it quiet until they had a chance to publish it for money.
I pity this poor child who will forever be branded as illegitimate and not wanted by her father….until he decided it was necessary for his own career. So much for altruism!
And this clown Edwards somehow thought America needed a self-absorbed, self-serving, egotistical person for President. Oh wait! We got one!
He needn’t worry about keeping in touch with her. All he has to do is pretend he’s in front of a jury and channel the person he thinks he is to her consciousness, and all will be well.
With any luck, she won’t turn out to be the loopy scuzzball he is, will have a decent head on her shoulders and will know right from wrong and, with just a little more luck, will know right from anything her father has ever said he believed.