Edwards’ Mistress Rielle Hunter the Model for Character in Gen-X Lit

my comment is we all have sinned and come short of the glory of GOD. Everyone is talking, but how many of those people are perfect. Things happed. So I always wondered from the media, whats in their closet. No excuses, but who is the perfect man or woman. thanks.

I am getting tired of people trying to minimize sexual escapades. I do not mind that he lied about the affair. I think no one has the right to expect
information on ones private lifeto be provided by just asking.. That said, It speaks poorly of any man who cannot be true to his marriage vows which incidently are only secondarily to one’s spouse and primarily to God.
I have remained faithful to my vows and am fast approaching the age where temptation may decrease. Until then I still hope to continue to be faithful to God. We are all tempted.

Sounds like it is all HER fault, men who are boys are just to weak to resist.
An affair is merely having your cake and eating it too!

“Rielle” Hunter sounds like a total, spoiled, flake. Have fun, John Edwards with your choice. I pity your children and family. Elizabeth Edwards should have continued to practice law instead of taking care of John Edwards’ kids.

What has all this got to do with Edwards as a person capable of leading the country. When was it that the Presidential candidate has to be a holy man ?
Is he not entitled to a private life.
BTW, get your God out of here, please.

We just found out that the CIA was running a covert propaganda operation whose target was the American people, and this story is printed instead of that? In what kind of a twisted universe are we living?

Bush and Cheney had the gall to break the law and think they could get away with it! He ran for reelection KNOWING what he did. You guys are always forgiving when its the other side, talk about being sanctimonious and cavalier

So, is this a case of art imitating life, or of life imitating art?

The truth is that this affair is new and flashy news at the present BUT in the long run, noone will pay the price like John and Elizabeth. My heart goes out to them. Let’s just pray for peace for them and not condemn lest we do the same thing ourselves. God, watch over and protect them. With all sincerity, Nan

Hmmmmmm One more “liberal” who can’t keep it in his own pants. If he can’t make better choices at this level of his life how can he be trusted to make better choices at the level of President of The United States… It will be very interesting to see how Obama handles his sexual scandel… Another Kennedy whore,,, And don’t tell me how great JFK was he was a whore too ( just ask Norma Jean )

FDR, Lyndon Johnson, the Kennedys, the Clintons, Hart, Jesse Jackson, etc. All these socialist types cannot be honest even with their own spouses and expect us to trust them? Why is it that leftists always try to hide who they really are?

Beckie, since you missed it, I was drawing the comparison to show how our political discourse is filled with trivialities. Of course there is no equivalence between betraying your spouse and thus your family, and betraying your oath of office and thus your country. Both are serious, of course, but in a totally different way. The fact that the one that affects an individual family is treated as important while the other is not just shows how shallow our discourse is.

disambiguates, of course it would remind you of Clinton, seeing how similar the case is. Of course it wouldn’t remind anyone of how McCain cheated on his sick wife, since the case is totally different, isn’t it?

If you looked in the skeleton closets of most of these top tier politicians, you’d find this kind of thing in two-thirds of the cases. But Edwards is way too slick. He made good populist arguments in this election, but he’s political toast now. The most fascinating thing here is the way the media gave him a pass when this story came up during the campaign and then totally ignored it when the National Enquirer nailed it down recently. Fair and objective reporting of the news, not!

It’s odd how we need to assign blame between two adults who choose to be selfish… “It’s all her fault” (previous post). This needs to be filed under, Buy a Vowell and is not worthy of further debate.
Or justify the unjustifiable. “All Throughout English, French, and German literature, and more, many rich men had mistresses or affairs.”(previous post) Such a grand sweeping statement fails to recognize the loveless marriages and mistresses for whom their station in life was set at birth unless they could sleep with powerful men for the affections they may receive.
The act these two adults made the consious decision to committ was obviously without regard to a woman fighting for her life. Or children marched out on morality parade. Set politics and religion aside this was a dispicable act by a weak man. I only hope I can do better.

I careless about Edwards love affair.
Edwards is a cheater and a snake….
He endorsed Obama a day after Hillary’s
big victory in WV…..
I voted for Hillary in primaries but
i will NOT vote for Obama in november.

ABC CBS MSNBC and the NEW YORK TIMES are Obama’s personal PAPARAZZI. No wonder they dropped the ball on any kind of objective reporting on Obama and Edwards.
Maybe the Obama will admit the truth about Larry Sinclair

Natural born citizen means that you were born within the boundries of the US. Although, with McCain he might be old enough to be a citizen at the time of the ratification.

Another thing you cannot talk about Obama or the MEDIA will say your picking on the SAVIOR. You cannot say Obama is a CELEBRITY even though Obama and his campaign went to great efforts to make him one.. Just ask Oprah THE ONE

Dean, Sinclair is a liar, we all know that. The sad thing is that YOU know it as well.
I’d like to see where your birth certificate flap goes. McCain is not a ‘natural born citizen’, and that is an uncontested fact.

The National Enquirer, the paper that all the Obama supporters portray as having no journalistic integrity, teaches the MSM a lesson in reporting with the Edwards/Hunter Story.

I’m confused, when did this become about McCain, Obama, Bush, Cheney liberals, conservatives, God, atheists, FDR, Lyndon Johnson, the Kennedy’s, the Clintons, Hart, Jesse Jackson, Norma Jean ? Or my personal favorite THE CIA !!!
I hoped this would be more intelligent than the adolescent posts regarding sports.

it is funny that you all hold edwards more responsible than you do mccain pres. candidate

The former Lisa Druck doesn’t come off as a “sympathetic” or “endearing character” in her interview clips — meanwhile, the Edwardses aren’t dealing with Druck/Hunter in the realm of forgettable fiction.
Meanwhile, of complications in a CHICAGO hospital, Bernie Mac — who made waves for The CHANGEling a bit ago — comes up dead at 50.
How many MORE loose ends get snipped, up while The One meets with his masters in Hawaii?
Are the DEMOCRATS going to go for this?
And who sent Druck/Hunter?

geevil
If you think the media avoiding a story about salacious affairs is bad …then why aren’t you asking them to investigate Mccain’s relationship with Cindy when he left his disfigured wife?
or why are you leaving it there that even though they didn’t follow up with a discredited newspaper like the Enquirer…
why is there not that kind of fervency to unearth where the story of mccain’s affair came from…
I mean the New york times is a lot more legitimate than the Enquirer (and don’t try to spin that one please)
yet you say this shows that the media isn’t investigating Obama? are you kidding
McCain’s timeline does not work out for when his relationship started with the young blonde millionairess that he left his wheelchair, disfigured older wife for? or the stories of his affair with that actress in the 80′s?
please…start making sense…if anyone has not had their personal affairs looked into it is absolutely positively overwhelmingly..
John and Cindy mcCain.
Obama has been under the microscope for 10 months straight…and to say other wise is…
well it’s a lie.
this story hurts John Mccain much more than Barack Obama who has no such history like that of John Mccain
how about John’s finances…or the paperwork on his health or the details of why Nancy reagan didn’t speak with him for years…
the media didn’t focus on this because they were trying to not make this a tabloid election…but if the republicans want a tabloid election bring on the starlet, the whhelchair disfigured ex-wife and the blonde bimbetter drug addicted millionairess new wife… and all the rest…from Budweiser and the windfall inheritence to Keating.

Oh i forgot about the story of Obama and his Rev Wright of over 10 years that Obama had to put a muzzle on until after the election.
Who would think that Democrats would tell a citizen not to speak. It is America and you have freedom of speech. SO REV Wright speak up

“Obama has been under the microscope for 10 months straight…”

Yes lets do some real research. About how Obama has done nothing but get a tax payer funded paycheck for over 8 years. Now almost 2 years of a do nothing senator that JUST GAVE A SPEECH> Hillary Clinton

it is amazing that since the repubs cannot find any substantial scandal against obama they try to blame him for everyone elses misdoings—–he will win in the fall—and mccain can go wet start his airplane—-my money is on obama—–but i still want paris to wash my car.

“Men. I’ve never met any. They’re all boys.”
That’s, of course, because nobody with self-respect would talk to somebody like that.

Thanks, WestCoastMessenger! Agreed!

What do you mean “Former Mistress”? Edwards just got caught at the Beverly Hilton and Hunter was there, too..coincidence? I don’t think the American people are that stupid even though the networks didn’t publish the liason until he was caught last week. Thank you Fox News and Drudge Report for pushing this info to the media. Edwards got what was coming to him..he thought he was above scrutiny.
No vote here!

So, Elizabeth Edwards knew about her husband’s sexual affair with Rielle Hunter in 2006 and fully supported his run for the White House ??? Is she nuts?? No wonder the media tried to cover up John Edwards’ affair. Exposing John’s sex romp makes Elizabeth look just as stupid as him. Of course the infidelity would come out for two reasons: Rielle Hunter told all her family and friends, and the National Enquirer has the cold hard cash!
John really blew it from the start. He should have claimed the baby was his from artificial insemination and the Rielle was a paid surrogate. When Rielle refused to give up the child, John wanted to talk to her alone. Elizabeth could have claimed full knowledge.
If Obama didn’t know what John Edwards was doing with his spare time (even though the Enquirer told him) and still had him as a VP candidate, then how is Obama going to figure the Iranians out? The answer: Obama knew.

WHY IS THE MSM RUNNING WITH THIS STORY? WHY ARE THEY NOT WRITING TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT OUR CURRENT FAILED LEADERSHIP… HOW THE ECONOMY HAS BEEN TRASHED… AND HOW THESE LEADERS LIED TO THE WORLD CAUSING 4,000 DEAD SONS AND DAUGHTERS… WHY?

Why did Edwards endorse Obama when Obama’s health insurance plan is deficient? It’s Hillary’s plan that Elizabeth Edwards thought was the best. Curious. Did Obama know of the affair?

I wish this had been kept private, but since it’s not I am simply amazed at the ‘so what’ attitude expressed by so many of you. Adultery is immoral and utter mistreatment of a spouse, and if your supposed ‘best friend’ has cancer for crying out loud, how can any of you be alright with Edwards’ act(s)???
“It’s not hypocritical to be a male and do what males do.”
“Clinton did it while in office and it doesn’t make him satan.”
“Why all the focus here and not on Bush…” blah blah blah.
First – Edwards should be as ashamed as Spitzer, and neither should be allowed to legislate again. Lack of moral fiber will infect (both literal and figurative meanings) their thought proceses and we deserve better.
Second – We all need to stop the bitter political diviseness continually expressed in these blogs. Bush did a bad job, though we haven’t had another 911. Obama needs to demonstrate more substance. McCain needs to stop those foolish ads. We need to call them as we see them rather than continually, ad nauseum pushing our agendas!!!

Oh my god! A polician has made a mistake like a normal human being! What ever will we do? Won’t someone think of the CHILDREN!?!

The issue is becoming where the money came from. It appears more and more that Edwards used campaign funds which would be an illegal move and thus he may be defending himself in a courtroom over his actions.