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John Edwards Caught Visiting Mistress, Confronted By Reporters

By: Chris Jones (Diary)  |  July 22nd, 2008 at 04:52 PM  | 

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John Edwards has been caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar! ‘Mr. Poverty’ was caught visiting his mistress and love child at 2:45 AM this morning.

Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.

The married ex-senator from North Carolina – whose wife Elizabeth continues to battle cancer — met with his mistress, blonde divorcee Rielle Hunter, at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night July 21 – and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER was there! He didn’t leave until early the next morning.


That’s not the half of it! The National Enquirer has been secretly investigating reports of a possible Edwards love child for some time now. After receiving a tip-off that Edwards would be meeting with his mistress at a hotel, reporters got into position and waited.

This is what they observed:

At 9:45 p.m. (PST) Monday Edwards appeared at the hotel, and was dropped off at a side entrance. NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporter Alan Butterfield witnessed the ex-senator get out of a BMW driven by a male companion and stroll into the hotel.
Said Butterfield: “Edwards was not carrying anything. He walked in alone. He was wearing a blue dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He was looking around nervously before he entered the hotel.

“Once inside, he interestingly bypassed the lobby and ducked down a side stairs to go to the bottom floor to catch the elevator up – rather than taking the elevator in the main lobby. He went out of his way not to be seen.”
Meanwhile, Reille had reserved rooms 246 and 252 under the name of the friend who had accompanied her from Santa Barbara, Bob McGovern. Reille was in one room and McGovern was in another with her baby. This allowed her and Edwards to spend time alone, a source revealed.

Edwards went out of the hotel briefly with Reille, was observed by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and then went back to her room, where he stayed until attempting to sneak out of the hotel unseen at 2:40 a.m. (PST). But when he emerged alone from an elevator into the hotel basement he was greeted by several reporters from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.

Senior NATIONAL ENQUIRER Reporter Alexander Hitchen asked Edwards why he was visiting Rielle and whether he was ready to confirm that he was the father of her baby.
Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield asked questioned him about his hookup with Reille.

Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes, refusing to answer questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER about what he was doing in the hotel. A group of hotel security men eventually escorted him from the men’s room, while preventing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters from following him out of the hotel.

Said reporter Hitchen: “After we confronted him about seeing Rielle, Edwards looked like a deer caught in headlights!

This has to be the greatest story of 2008! John Edwards has always been the biggest phony in America and this just further proves what a loser he is. His wife is at home with cancer and he’s out banging other women and having babies.

‘Mr. Poverty’, ‘Mr. Compassion’, ‘Mr. two Americas’ is BUSTED!

(via The Hot Joints)

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  • Dave_in_Fla

    What with the Obamapolooza world tour going on.

    • Rod_Patrick
  • KBDay

    I’d say the golden boy was pretty much caught red-handed. I’d agree his VP options will take a big dive.

    On the National Enquirer–I used to scoff at that publication, back when it ran stories about extraterrestrial babies.

    However, in my opinion, there is very little difference between NE and others like the NYT, except the NE puts legs on the ground. That publication faces the same media liability as any mainstream publication–they certainly do not want to be sued.

    If Edwards were a Republican, this story would be front page and center and sound bites galore.

    If he does have a child as is alleged, by the other woman, that is an entirely different matter than a simple fling or one-night stand.

    That said, his wife is likely of the mindset our Southern mothers raised us with–the marriage is the priority and you work your way through the problems.

    What’s more troublesome is that his campaign narrative included a storyline of a very dedicated husband, one who was above reproach. He’d have been better off adopting a different approach.

    • Moe_Lane

      It’s just that Obama won’t dare repudiate them.

      Hey, not my fault that he’s a moral coward.

      Moe

      PS: Reply to This is your friend. Although it does seem fitting that you’re replying to yourself.

      • Moe_Lane

        Which I personally ranked as low anyway, but people had at least talked about the possibility.

        I will grant that it’s not an especially large story, although the salacious details will no doubt magnify its importance.

        • speciallist

          Sleep it off..you can have a piece of Cake tommorrow

          • Goldwaterite

            … insomuch as that a point I made about the moral equivalence of sexual scandals has been answered with an unrelated point about Iraq. Were I talking to myself, at least I’d be certain of staying on topic. Being crazy has its perks.

            Anyway, I have to disagree with you that general election candidates are under the moral obligation to repudiate immoral fringe views held by five percent of their supporters. I wouldn’t expect McCain to get up in front of the country and point out that God is not actually planning to kill off the majority of Americans and humanity in general by way of the Rapture, nor would I accuse him of moral cowardice for refraining to make such a speech. Similarly, I don’t expect Obama to get up on stage and explain to us all that those small number of Democrats who wish for American servicemen to be killed in Iraq are traitors. Neither party has a monopoly on such people.

          • HairyTrueMan

            One thing I know about The Left… they don’t give second chances. Even for VP.

            The young’ins want something new. Something fresh.

            They hate tradition. Old is bad, and young is good.

            The Left hates experience and loves change.

            And frig the learning of lessons.

          • Moe_Lane

            But then you had to equate evangelical / fundamentalist Christians with America-hating hard Leftists. Really, it’s like a blind spot for you people.

            Ta.

  • nivlem

    I am so sorry, but living in Raleigh and
    watching this “idiotic” couple try to
    manipulate the public the way they have…it amazes me….
    Any woman that would have an affair
    with that wimp of a man deserves whatever she gets.
    They manipulated the public from the
    press conferences of her cancer to his
    idiotic devotion to those that were in
    poverty to the amount of money they hid
    in real estate to relocate their neighbor.
    This couple should never have gotten this far. You do not try to manipulate
    the public in the absolute blatent way they have with his stupid “populist tour”
    while you are building and protecting your 50+ million dollar mansion.
    WHY IS THIS VALUELESS INDIVIDUAL STILL NEWS???

    • wlrer

      but I have to say I think it has a shred more credibility than the National Enquirer. The National Enquirer often completely makes up information out of thin air. It is no different from fiction. The NYT has a pronounced political bias, to be sure, but that is something quite different from outright fiction. Using a literary genre analogy, think of the NYT as historical fiction, and think of the National Enquirer as fantasy.

      The Iseman non-story was shoddy and irresponsible reporting to be sure, but it was not a complete fabrication. The article was just wilfully blown way out of proportion. Not printing Senator McCain’s editorial is not the same as writing one for him and posting it under his name. Spinning Abu Ghraib as the handiwork of Rove/Cheney/Bushitler is different from manufacturing the whole incident.

      I hate defending the NYT, but I think they are just a tad more trustworthy than the National Enquirer. Again, if the National Enquirer reported a story alleging that some Republican had done this, I think the reaction would be a bit different from some of our posters.

      Drudge has jumped on the story, so perhaps it does have some credibility. I’m still not real confident about the National Enquirer’s journalism.

      • nivlem

        I hate to even pull the lever for McCain, but your over the tot p zeal
        frightens me.
        Get a grip.
        We all have questions and disagreements…but you are doing more harm than good to anyone, including
        yourself.

        • Mason617

          of the Edwards’ marriage? Didn’t think so.

          • Mason617

            I’m offended!! Don’t lump us all together; not every agnostic libertarian has EDS (evangelical derangement syndrome). You just don’t hear christian bashing from the saner ones.

          • Moe_Lane

            Sorry if I was unclear about that.

          • Mason617

            You mean like the “solid” reporting they did on McCain’s affair with a lobbyist? The one that turned out to be a total fabrication?

          • Rod_Patrick

            You’re right. I was drunk that night.
            And so were my buddies. And I allowed my black foolish buddy to comment in my behalf. My mistake. I re-read the last comment (if was my buddy Ivan who finished it; didn’t see the final outcome because I had slept already.) and it was so awful because these are those things that should have been kept unsaid.

            I (in behalf Ivan – the foolish dog) should have never written those statements, especially on the personal life of McCain. I, like the rest of you, should have respected McCain’s appeal not to go there. After all, he’s running for president and not sainthood.

            I didn’t exactly know why I really got mad to Crabcakes’ opening comment. There was something in it that really ticked me off (and my buddy, Ivan). Crabcake’s comments is full of double intendre with innuendoes about McCain’s past.

            Yeah, there’s no explanation for the name-callings that cluttered the flow of thoughts in CrabCakes’s comments. Please accept my apology to Moe and the rest of RS guys. But I won’t

            I regret all the comments I’ve made here and I would be pleased if RS technicians could remove them in this diary. Our friend nivlim is correct in saying that it did more damage than good.

            This will be my last comment. I will pay the my own self-imposed penalty: I won’t make any comments for 1 week(?). But I hope you guys allow me to continue to read your posts and comments.

          • Flagstaff

            Fox News has confirmed the facts of the Enquirer story, but not its claims.

            One might think that if the claims aren’t true, a high-powered lawyer like Edwards would already be threatening a big-money lawsuit. Unless, of course, he’s a real gentleman and was just helping the lady with some delicate late-night legal advice.

  • speciallist

    n/t

  • Brandozilla

    I guess in his “Two Americas” John Edwards gets 1 family per “America”?

  • speciallist

    The Phalse Prophet and the Silky Phony what a team

  • Vegas_Rick

    ’cause no one really is perfect. The Breck girl is finding that out now. Pretty funny on the surface, but you have to feel bad for his wife.

  • wsjreader

    We need photos!!

  • Chris_Jones

    I guess so

  • Moe_Lane

    He has children, and a wife who doesn’t need this right now.

  • CrabCakes

    (Not that there’s anything wrong with that…other than the adultery part, of course.)

    Thank God my guys didn’t nominate this guy! Even before this, I said all along that the one thing that would make me vote GOP was Edwards at the top of the GOP ticket. Now it looks like I don’t have to worry about him in the number two spot either.

  • pilgrim

    Silky Pony Rides Again

  • speciallist

    be shown on Cable news…I want them Splattered all over the TV…

    I give him first place in the Orange County Fair pig contest..oink

  • CrabCakes
  • Mord

    If this were Romney or something like that, it would be on Primetime even before it was confirmed to be true or not.

    I expect a ckicket symphony until it breaks on Fox or something.

  • pilgrim

    If and I repeat IF you can find an Associated Press link to this comment then you are da man.

  • Rod_Patrick
  • stickler88

    Yet again, pointless trivia gets more attention than relevant give-and-take with supposed Republican leaders.

    I have seen ZERO interaction from the big names that have posted here.

    It would seem they are using RS as a convenient place to drop off press releases and then scurry off.

    This is still the discredited “top-down” model that didn’t work in the past and isn’t going to work now.

  • Pentagon16

    the National Enquirer has reported on Obama’s affairs as well.

    I am sure that in 2009 the press will follow Senator Obama in Chicago and find him knocking boots with somebody other than Mrs. “I am proud of my country for the first time”

    It is inevitable with you libs.

  • Rod_Patrick

    in your link and I’d say you’re genius, or should i say… you’re a naughty boy, pilgrim!

  • Pentagon16

    I like the cut of your jib sir!!

  • streetwise

    big service, if Edwards is on his VP list.

    Andif true, I agree with Moe – I’m disappointed in him. I can’t stand him politically, but this really hurts people who don’t deserve to be hurt.

  • Pentagon16

    I like the cut of your jib sir!!

  • rjd27

    Until a publication other than the National Enquirer reports this, this story needs to be left alone.

    It’s only funny (and sad) if it’s true.

    side note: I will submit that the distinctions between the NE and other MSM outlets are becoming ever more blurred.

  • streiff

    if you want to whine, hit the “contact” button at the masthead. Otherwise, comment on the story.

  • Moe_Lane

    NT

  • CrabCakes

    I know that the tabloids have repeatedly reported on potential affairs with multiple politicians, but (and I know this sounds loony) I consider the Enquirer a bit more trustworthy than the other tabloids. After all, they nailed OJ and Jesse Jackson. I hadn’t heard them report anything on Obama, though.

  • Dave_in_Fla

    The aledged mistress is the one who got the $100K+ contract to make a film for the Edwards campaign that raised so many eyebrows.

  • CrabCakes
  • CrabCakes

    John McCain isn’t exactly immune from criticism in this quarter, you know.

  • Moe_Lane

    It’s not so much the gay sex as it is the crack cocaine use. You can hide being the sort of person who’d commit adultery. You really can’t hide for long being the sort of person who’d smoke crack. That is, in fact, the major reason why the phrase “smoking crack” is now synonymous with “saying or doing obviously insane things in public.”

  • Moe_Lane

    …where everyone concerned remained friendly and supportive is rather different, don’t you think? Certainly there’s been no credible rumors of infidelity from the man since then.

  • jonreagan

    Edwards’ creepiness quotient in this incident, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 15. Meeting with a girlfriend in LA while his cancer-ridden wife is back in NC dying, is on a par with consulting one’s political advisors while a woman drowns.

    I first saw this reported on Larry Kudlow’s show this afternoon; he threw it into a “debate” discussion between Steve Moore, and liberal Democrat (and actor of “Big Love” fame) Lawrence O’Donnell. I was blown away when O’Donnell said that he had reviewed the National Enquirer article, and that it was “very solid reporting”.

    Not that I’m surprised–as a centrist who once voted for Democrats, I always thought of John Edwards as a George Wallace minus the racism. Just a two-bit little creep.

    Lots of ramifications here:

    1) Despite their new and laughable “unbiased” tag line, CNN has still not acknowledged this story (6:30 PDT).

    2) This will take some of the oxygen out of Barry’s European “Victory Tour”, once the cable outlets decide to report it.

    3) HRC supporters–who hate Edwards anyway for not making an endorsement during the primaries–will be ready to castrate Edwards along with Obama, as most of them really respect Elizabeth Edwards. Maybe they’ll recruit Jesse Jackson to help….

    At least we know now why he was getting those $400 haircuts….

  • Rod_Patrick
  • Moe_Lane

    We’d cordially loathe each other, of course – she’s a progressive, and I’m a neocon – but I suspect that what convictions Edwards has comes from his wife.

    And, of course, I wouldn’t wish terminal cancer on my worst enemy.

  • CrabCakes

    And, no, I wasn’t referring to Vicki Iseman, which I take with a giant grain of salt.

    I was referring to his previous marriage and his daughter thereby and his former mistress/current wife.

    It seems that if his time as a POW, 35 years ago, should serve as a window into his character then his infidelity 29 years ago should as well. But that’s probably just me.

  • Dave_in_Fla

    Any more the Enquirer is a better journalistic organization than a number of other organizations, such as the New York Times. At least they have the guts to actually wait until they are able to prove the sordid affair, unlike the Times reporting that bogus story about an aledged McCain affair (someone told someone that someone told McCain that he might be looking like he is having an affair).

    We will wait for pictures to show up, however this story is posted at the National Enquirer site, so they are out on a limb with the accusation, including the claim of photos.

    How low the MSM has sunk, when the Enquirer is the paragon of journalistic integrity.

  • streiff

    really hurts people who don’t deserve to be hurt
    If we’re talking about the kid.

    Elizabeth Edwards is a voluntary combatant and no one undertaking adultery deserves much consideration.

  • phred

    right off the Veep list… of maybe not.

  • Rod_Patrick
  • CrabCakes

    After all, I don’t see picking an adulterer over Hillary appeasing the feminist wing of the Democratic Party.

  • tcgeol

    Its not a funny story and I sincerely hope it isn’t true.

    We might be better to leave this until there is better proof.

  • Dave_in_Fla

    Removed any possibility that he will be a VP choice from this election, and likely killed all future political possiblities.

  • CrabCakes

    And as noted above, I wasn’t talking about Iseman.

  • Jaded

    So John McCain having an affair and divorcing his wife and then marrying the woman is akin to John Edwards having an out of wedlock child with his mistress while his wife is having cancer treatments…..and I suppose it is relative to Barack (I am the cocaine king) Obama and his ADMITTED drug use….yeah that right there makes a great POTUS…and before you liberally say EVERYONE does it….you would be wrong so just skip the bs.

  • Rod_Patrick
  • SteveLA

    Maybe after Edwards “Love Child” graduates from College or something.

    But I’m left with questions:
    Would that be fair enough?
    Will this teach the Democrats, the KOS Kids and Moveon.org to pay nicer…?

    No….well then….bombs away!

  • streiff

    if you think Barack Obama is going to get through this campaign without his own string of mistresses becoming public then I think you are mistaken. I’m sure they will have no probative value to you because infidelities by a Dem are hardly newsworthy.

    The campaign season is still young.

  • Goldwaterite

    For the duration of this story, there will be a sudden and convenient meme developing here that things that happened a long time ago and that may be described as having ended with “friendship” and “support” by those who have no direct knowledge of the actual circumstances just don’t pertain to things that are happening today. Oddly enough, this principle will not apply to anything else other than McCain’s infidelity.

    Is it absolutely necessary that you excuse away everything in the service of the greater good, Moe? Can it not be acknowledged that two men made similar mistakes, regardless of party? Must these nonsense qualifications be added to every little bit of the news cycle in order to justify an attack on an irrelevant populist like Edwards?

  • Vegas_Rick

    n/t

  • Moe_Lane

    NT

  • CrabCakes

    People who cheat on their spouses and/or leave them for another person (or, almost as bad, for “irreconcilable differences), especially when children are involved, are irresponsible and completely blameworthy. (And yes, more irresponsible and blameworthy than someone doing cocaine. Hurting oneself, while shameful, is much less so than hurting others.)

    So, yes, Bill Clinton, John McCain, David Vitter, and now John Edwards have demonstrated the same substantial character defect and lack of integrity. Does that mean that they are all bad or irredeemable? Of course not, people change, but that doesn’t change the fact that infidelity is wrong and shameful.

    Pretending that this is a liberal or conservative defect though, as our naive friend Pentagon16 seems to want to do, is ridiculous. This particular defect, unfortunately, cuts across the political spectrum.

    (Fair disclosure: My parents divorced when I was a kid, so perhaps I feel more strongly about this than some.)

  • Moe_Lane

    We do have some, and he’s been around long enough to achieve regular status.

    So ixnay on the Krusty Crab thing, ‘kay? I request this without heat in my voice.

  • CrabCakes

    But that’s a pretty serious charge your leveling at him without any evidence. Back when honor meant something, that kind of thing could’ve ended in a dual.

    (By the way, when did it become OK to accuse a man of infidelity just because you disagreed with his politics?)

  • tcgeol

    play fair, because it won’t happen. Leftists are known for their “creative truth” (normally known as lies) and the idea that the end justifies the means. I want us as conservatives to be as rough as possible and still be honest about things.

    That means I don’t like accusations without proof, even if it is to our advantage, and the National Enquirer isn’t good proof.

  • Jaded

    no one else….what liberal hell are you living in (no reality)….people are dying everyday for cocaine to get to Barack Obama’s nose…from the people in Mexico on the border to the kids in the streets selling it for the kingpins…..your closed mind to the reality of drugs is quite quaint but quite dangerous quite like your imitation Christ Barack…..John McCain and John Edwards’ sex with other women did not kill anybody.

  • Moe_Lane

    Should John McCain ever, say, try to get the USA to lose a war in order to get himself elected President, I’ll be the first to break with him.

    Fortunately, that’s unlikely: we already have somebody doing that.

  • CrabCakes

    In fact, I believe “shameful” is the word I used.

    But if you believe that doing coke in college (even including all the indirect harm done by drug smuggling) is nearly on the same level as breaking up a family with children to chase one’s own selfish lusts, then your moral compass is so far out of whack that you might want to turn that metaphorical ship of yours back toward Portugal now.

  • Jaded

    …

  • Dave_in_Fla

    And his indescrtion that was no different from previous representatives who had had similar occurances and had both remained in Congress, but been re-elected?

    Yeah, I’m all for that “similar indicretions in the past” line. Although, I note it only is used when a Democrat is caught. When the Democrat party is running ads in FL-24 trying to tie Feeney to Abramoff, yet remaining silent on William Jefferson’s re-election, the argument leaves me just a bit cold.

    And the left calls us hypocrites.

  • Jaded

    to get coke to those poor college students people die and they do so everyday….so say what you will but I would rather my politicians boinking than blowing snow up their noses.

  • Vegas_Rick

    in John McCain’s marriage after he returned from Viet Nam? I didn?t think so. You are very judgmental for someone who knows squat about the situation. In your world, is the woman/wife never at fault?

    I would think that the fact that he and his ex remain friends is telling.

  • Vegas_Rick

    Oh wait, Obama doesn’t have the stones to meet McCain at a townhall, he sure doesn’t have the stones for..gulp..violence. Bwahahahahaha

  • CrabCakes

    And I find your implication that the woman might be at fault for her husband’s infidelity a bit offensive.

    And I would hope they remained friends, they had three children together. If one won’t be man enough to stay faithful to his wife, the least he can do is try to stay on decent terms with her for the sake of his children. The fact that she did the same shows that she had quite a bit of character.

  • Vegas_Rick

    Because, in the real world, women are not perfect. They do not ALWAYS make perfect wives. They are not always faithful, especially when their men are overseas. Dear John ring any bells? I am NOT placing blame. I don’t know what happened. Neither do you.

  • CrabCakes

    If she leaves, then fine, date, remarry, have a blast. If she cheats, then the man can either leave or be the bigger man and try to make it work for the sake of his family. If he decides to stay, however, he doesn’t have the right to cheat just because she did.

    (The same goes if the tables are turned, by the way.)

  • Rod_Patrick
  • Rod_Patrick
  • speciallist

    n/t

  • speciallist

    n/t

  • Moe_Lane

    NT

  • stickler88

    It’s people like you that continue to make conservatism a punchline rather than a serious answer, to anything.

  • Flagstaff

    This is the National Enquirer folks. Let’s have some further confirmation by The Onion or Mad or The Daily Show, OK?

  • speciallist

    Or Bigfoot?

  • speciallist

    n/t

  • Rod_Patrick

    I smell some adultery going on here! ROFLMAO!

    Yeah, Mr. Special List, I’m having fun here by just reading what the brokenhearted trolls are saying.

  • speciallist

    n/t

  • Moe_Lane

    NT

  • Moe_Lane

    NT

  • Vegas_Rick

    n/t

  • Flagstaff

    And he wasn’t just an ordinary Bat Boy, he was a VAMPIRE Bat Boy. Which he admitted as he used a conductor’s punch to put two holes in the big toe of his recently late sidekick, Rubin (The Boy Blunder), followed by two soda straws to help him drink Rubin’s blood.

    Bigfoot is another matter.

  • Vegas_Rick

    n/t

  • speciallist

    n/t

  • wlrer

    shouldn’t we think about the source? The National Enquirer doesn’t exactly have stellar journalistic credentials. I think it’s wrong to level accusations of this magnitude based on the reporting of a ridiculous gossip rag. Think about this: If the National Enquirer reported the same situation with Bobby Jindal, would you believe it?

  • Flagstaff

    to suck out your brains. (from The Fairly Odd-Parents)

    I’m experiencing a beautiful Arizona sunset as I type.

  • Brandozilla

    We discuss the NY Times all the time, even their gossip crap about Vicki Iseman.

    I don’t think anyone here will say that the Enquirer is less credible the NY Times, and I say that fully aware that they write stories about alien babies.

  • Goldwaterite

    Because Obama – like the sizable portion of active duty U.S. servicemen who support him, along with about half of the population of the U.S. – allegedly wants our nation to lose in Iraq, it is somehow a fine and virtuous thing to attack Edwards for doing something that McCain did while simultaneously excusing McCain based on the fact that his particular sin occurred 30 years ago (and will you discount his heroism as a POW based on the same chronological relativism, I wonder?). It is equally fine to respond to criticism on this point by changing the subject.

  • Rod_Patrick

    Didn’t get your warning on time.

    I’ll be tender to Sir CrabsCake. But I can’t help it. His position on the issue of Edwards is really funny.

    1. He immediate rebuked the Sinclair issue. At least there is a witness here (although not very credible.)
    2. Then, he offered the idea of McCain’s first wife. Good. he has a valid case to me, as a conservative. But it’s like opening a cold case with all the evidences completely missing. But his alleged victim doesn’t want to file a case. I would only accept that the story in this diary is comparable to Carol+McCain+Cyndi personal issue back in the late 70s if Cyndi and McCain had a child before the divorce – which is false.
    3. Crabscake has never presented any word or statement from Carol (the first wife) against McCain. Why? Because Carol(the first wife) doesn’t want to play a victim of MSM(i.e., victim of McCain). Thus, I assumed that CrabsCake has resorted to MSM reports such as those by HuffPo’s. In this particular issue, MSM used their trademark journalistic style of getting infos, which is talking to: paid-in neighbors, gardener?, Carol’s friends (turned politicians), barber?, cook?, driver?, navy/marine buddies, Reagan’s former aide?, and other whathaveyous. And MSM took their words as holy factoids. For me, Crabscake innuendos point to HuffPo’s journalistic style: GOSSIP is the source of true information.
    4. Later, CrabsCake was preaching like his BO. He instantly metamorphosed into a marriage counselor.
    5. Next he wrote the unthinkable. He became a champion of the Women’s lib. He’s implying that all failed marriages are due to the infidelity of the man. And woman has nothing to do with it.
    6. Then he made a threat that he will condemn BO, if he finds that BO is as an adulterer. What does that mean? For me, CrabsCake seriously believes that BO has never been an adulterer and is really contented with Michelle. This is short of saying that BO is really a saint.
    7. Now, back to Edward thing, which is the subject of this diary. CrabsCake’s just can’t admit to himself about the facts presented by this diary. He’s actually in a denial stage. He immediately made a remark to elevate his Candidate, BO, as if his candidate has just acquired a special status of being an Untouchable on this issue. He immediately bashed Edwards (look at his first remark – it’s sounds like Yukk!) to shield his candidate BO from any form of adultery (whether with a dude and a woman). It’s also interesting to note that it was CrabsCake who offered the idea of “a dude” third party here (not me!)

    NOW WHY DO I CONSIDER MCCAIN WAS A BETTER MAN DURING HIS YOUNGER YEARS THAN THESE TWO TOP DEMOCRAT LEADERS:

    1. Based on the account of the last 30 years and his own biography, McCain had the courage to admit his sins, something that only an principled man can do.
    2. Why should I believe McCain’s words written in his biography? If McCain cannot be trusted to his words, then I wouldn’t also believe MCCAIN WHEN HE SAID THAT HE HAD COMMITTED RANDOM SEX.
    3. McCain HAS NEVER SAID that HE LIVED A “HOLY LIFE” against his sexual urges. He’s never been a hypocrite with respect to this issue. I’ve never heard of McCain preaching like Barack in a pulpit in front of a congregation in a church service.
    4. McCain never had a love child. He respects the role of a father to a son much better than many of us here. He took Andy and Doug like his own flesh and blood (before and after the divorce).
    5. Did Carol forgive McCain, assuming that McCain deceived and hurt her? Why not CrabsCake visit Carol and tell her his argument against McCain. I can expect that Carol will hurt Crabscake so bad and throw him out of the window.
    6. If we believe in God, we’d surely agree that this man (McCain) has really been forgiven by the Lord above. Why? Instead punishing McCain of his “horrible sins” as described by MSM, God has even favorably blessed McCain with two “good and patriotic American” sons and a good daughter. He has even entrusted McCain with another a special kind of daughter. (Of course, we now all know that this girl is not really a love child of McCain as rumored in 2000).

    Conclusion of 1-6:

    McCain admitted his sins, has sought forgiveness by all people that he hurt and has changed his ways. I believe that at the age of 72, McCain has finally made peace with his own God and he’s now ready to accept the role of a President using all the wisdom he has acquired in his entire life. He has an experience of a lifetime to be qualified for this position.

    Final Analysis:

    1. McCain, over time, has established himself a very large happy McCain clan worthy of all his sacrifices and his continuing efforts towards the right path. McCain and Carol are truly the best of friends. Remember that Carol very much wanted to help McCain and Cyndi win during the 2000 primaries against Bush. And for the sake his friend and former husband, Carol threw the MSM under the bus.

    2. Barack’s real strength of moral character cannot be proven yet!. He’s still 46 years old and he still has a lot of temptations to overcome in his life before we can truly say that he is really a good man. In addition, he needs constant supervision to check if the impact of “smoking cocaine” won’t haunt him in a damaging way.

    3. I can assure you that McCain won’t repeat Bill’s disgusting behavior while at the WH. At 72, this man is the real deal.

    4. As for Edwards? A Lovechild has no explanation. He’s really doing the so-called “Two America” thing as defined in some of the earlier comments in this diary.

    5. Discussing other’s Fidelity and relationship issues is unfair. I believe that I might have been unfair to my Old Pal Mac in the above… because I was not privy to any of the things above. I wrote the above to counter all the HuffPo and MSM lies surrounding the blogosphere. What about Edwards? If lovechild exists, then the National Enquirer can rest its case. I would forgive him if he make a public admission of all his sins, like what McCain did in the case of his failed marriage.

    Now, Mr. Moe. I’m now taking Sir CrabsCake seriously.

    NOW I HAVE BECOME LIKE THE GOSSIP TALKSHOW HOST.

  • HairyTrueMan

    shirt.

    Too bad he’s not the nominee, huh? Obama seems to be squeaky clean with the ladies.

    This is a non-story.