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  • Am I the only one totally stunned by the Edwards' debacle? How does Elizabeth Edwards do it? He's obviously the father of this baby and is in the middle of this affair. I can't believe I had some admiration for this sleaze. Yeccchh.

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    08.14.08, 05:21 PM [ Flag ]
    • it's what you sign on for when you marry a politician unfortunately.

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      08.14.08, 05:22 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • np: agreed. i just found out all the John McCain affair stuff (I had no idea, I guess I missed that media firestorm) and somehow it surprised me. (PS Not sure that is his baby, though, OP -- Edwards wants pat. test and Rielle does not....)

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        08.14.08, 05:24 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • dh is in network news tv and said the bush was boffing condy and that laura bush was so doped up that she didn't even care. it's a rumor of course but rumors often are found out to be true.

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          08.14.08, 05:26 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • Actually I read (in some gossip mag) Laura was fed up w/George's drinking. I realize just a rumor but I kind of believe it.

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            08.14.08, 05:28 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • And Rice at a dinner in Washington once started a sentence by saying, "I've told my husband...I mean, I've told President Bush" which is a weird Freudian slip since she's never been married.

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            08.15.08, 07:45 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • They never pursued McCain this way. Maybe times were different. Thet looked the other way with JFK too. Now it's being said that Edwards and Hunter choreographed this paternity test thing.

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          08.14.08, 05:28 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • I do think the mccain thing is a pretty crazy double standard. He is running for president and claiming to be like so "for others and not for himself" and it turns out he dumped his first wife (after a car accident?) and had all these affairs on her. Edwards, although gross, isn't even running for office

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            08.14.08, 05:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
            • ah did you forget his was a candidate for President of the United States until February 2008?

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              08.14.08, 05:34 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
            • That is a really inaccurate representation of McCain's history. His first wife (who he is still close with and who says she wants to see him elected president) has said any number of times that she believes that his time as a POW and his desire to kind of "go wild" (my words not hers) when he got back from Viet Nam were what killed their marriage. There are a ton of things to attack John McCain on. He is a dangerous and disassociated man. He is not the free thinking/"Maverick" of eight years ago. Lets focus on what matters here and leave the mud to the pigs.

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              08.15.08, 07:55 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • ita but he didn't start out as a politician. I just feel so badly for her. I don't know how she holds on to her sanity in the face of everything she's endured.

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        08.14.08, 05:26 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • When you've been together as long as they have and been through as much as they have your marriage is about more than sex.

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      08.14.08, 05:26 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • itta

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        08.14.08, 05:27 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • OP here: We also just celebrated our 31st anniversary coincidentally and let me tell you old dh would not be living with me if he had done what Edwards did. I have a 7 y/o too. Yes our marriage is a best friend thing as well as a love affair but I will not be betrayed. That kind of passion lives on.

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        08.14.08, 05:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • My dh and I have been together for 24yrs and I would never throw our dc's lives in such turmoil because he humped an easy piece and he knows it. I would however, make sure that he lived to regret it, and he knows that too!

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          08.14.08, 05:40 PM [ Flagged | link to this post ]
          • He ddin't just hump an easy piece - I could recover from that and ita would not risk hurting dcs over it. He carried on for what seems to be a year - lied about breaking up with her ater his dw announced her terminal illness and apparently now has fathered a child. Whew.

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            08.14.08, 05:45 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • This is old news here on UB. But it is hilarious to believe that because Edwards staunchly demands a paternity test - a test which Rielle Hunter has been very well paid to refuse - he is somehow telling the truth about this fact. No one could stomach the idea of Edwards humping his floozy during the presidential campaign - a fact that I sadly have no doubt is true.

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      08.14.08, 05:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • what it really boils down to is this: does having an affair make you less effective at your job? the answer is no. lot's of pple have affairs and function in their jobs just fine. why do americans care so much about the dick factor?

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        08.14.08, 05:48 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • Really? Because I think character and integrity are quite relevant to the decision making process; to the associates you keep close to you and to the moral compass you use in logic and analysis.

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          08.14.08, 05:59 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • np: I go back and forth on that. I don't think Clinton, Roosevelt or Kennedy were bad presidents because they slept around. But Edwards has shown seriously bad judgment here.

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            08.14.08, 06:06 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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