Isn't he largely out of politics already, now, with a failed VP bid and a two failed primary bids? I figured those were most likely proverbial "kiss(es) of death."

Or is he still angling for that AG position? Anyone with more knowledge of the man care to enlighten me?

Normally I am not at all a proponent of the scare tactic "Well if you have nothing to hide why don't you step aside", etc. But this is not a normal situation here - John Edwards is a man in the national spotlight, a supposed champion for family values, and a hopeful for several Cabinet spots. He needs to shut up the gossip if it's false with credible evidence, or own up to his mistakes. His silence is hurting the party and will continue to do so the longer he waits.

His career is toast either way.

Skail: Or is he still angling for that AG position? Anyone with more knowledge of the man care to enlighten me?

i haven't seen much buzz for that outside of message board opinion. i don't see why he would be a particularly attractive candidate for AG anyways; it wouldn't help win votes as it happens after the election, and there are certainly more qualified candidates for the job.

Maybe people will shut up about this and the whole MSM crap now.

What career in politics? He's just a dude -- neither serving, nor running to serve.

Again, why John Edwards is relevant at all is a mystery. He's like th GOP's Romney.

I'm sure if he just gets the mistress drunk, puts her in the back seat of his moms car, drives off a bridge somewhere, locks her in, swims to safety, goes home, wakes up, eats breakfast, meets his buddies, calls his lawyer, and then just says this was all a misunderstanding, everything will be A-OK.

3_Butt_Cheeks: Again, why John Edwards is relevant at all is a mystery. He's like th GOP's Romney.

The other GOP.

This is something they've wondered for two days in a row now. (new window)

ummm wasnt the butter and jam spread all over his career a few months back already

it warms my heart to see Democrats embroiled in scandal. and to all of you who have laughed at the GOP recently, yes, the pot does call the kettle black from time to time.

He probably should address the allegations.

Well, he can always go back to being a multimillionaire tort lawyer who channels dead kids.

The 50th link on fark about a guys who hasn't held office for years and is not running for anything.

I guess it's not news.

Did he ever have a 'political career' other than presidential candidate?

CheddarPants: His career is toast either way.

That was my first thought too. But, Barney Frank, Teddy the K, and others have survived worse.

moralpanic: Did he ever have a 'political career' other than presidential candidate?

They probably want to run him again in 2012, either as Pres or VP.

TheGreatGazoo: Well, he can always go back to being a multimillionaire tort lawyer who channels dead kids.

In a rational world he would have been disbarred before he ever set foot in an actual courtroom, but since we don't appear to have a rational world, I'm going with a "this" here. He's a professional con just like that other John Edwards, he's just better at it.

I thought his career was already over. I supposed they want to keep him around for advisory roles in which case, yeah, he should address it. If he's going to quietly bow out of the public eye for good, let him be.

DarnoKonrad: What career in politics? He's just a dude -- neither serving, nor running to serve.

This.

Or?

Hmm... whats in the news today...

bush had the cia forge evidene to inv...

HOLY SHIAT a politian not currently in office or running for anything had an affair!!!

Existensial dyslexia: it warms my heart to see Democrats embroiled in scandal. and to all of you who have laughed at the GOP recently, yes, the pot does call the kettle black from time to time.

Because this definitely compares in every way to sex with children.

stargazer101: His silence is hurting the party and will continue to do so the longer he waits.


Is it? I can't imagine it hurting much more than him and his own family, and if I'm wrong, just chalk it up retarded party politics. Party before country, as they say.

Jim_Callahan: In a rational world he would have been disbarred before he ever set foot in an actual courtroom

Disbarred for what, exactly? Difficulty: be specific and cite actual laws and/or regulations. Bonus points for using complete sentences.

stargazer101: But this is not a normal situation here - John Edwards is a man in the national spotlight, a supposed champion for family values,

Sorry, but what exactly is a "family value?"

Is that how much wealth a family has, or the insurance liability if they were all to die at the same time, or projected potential earnings over the next generation?

Or are you talking about the family values of sexual repression, frequent divorce, mistress on the side that most people in the pulpit and politics live?

Or the one that they preach: sexually repression, no divorce, no gays, nothing before marriage and nothing after except to kindle the fire of life?

Cause I can't keep up with all the "family values" that are flying around.

Heck, I could say I'm for family values, but my family values may entail degrading my wife in public but calling her a "c*nt" and a "trollop" and entering her in topless, simulated sex "beauty pageants." It may include interns under the desk in the oval office, and on boats, loud raucous parties, where some participants end up on the bottom of a channel, and/or duct taped to a tree in central park. It's my family, and they're my values. Besides, I think I could get fair market value for the kids. I may have a wide stance, or text pages.

So, vote for FreudulentSplit, champion of family values you can believe in, even though you don't know what the hell they are.

kronicfeld: Jim_Callahan: In a rational world he would have been disbarred before he ever set foot in an actual courtroom

Disbarred for what, exactly? Difficulty: be specific and cite actual laws and/or regulations. Bonus points for using complete sentences.

Eh, ok, point to you, ethics regulations don't seem to apply to case selection and rhetorical form as often as they should, and vary from state to state anyhow. In my imaginary world where the legal system is for redress of legitimate grievances rather than the profit of unethical plaintiff's attourneys, though, I'd be disbarring any such attourney that advised a client to file a lawsuit against someone based on 'they have money' rather than 'they're at fault'.

Yes, I'm aware this would significantly reduce the lawyering population and is somewhat unenforceable.

Also, screw you and your complete sentences.

ZachF81: I'm sure if he just gets the mistress drunk, puts her in the back seat of his moms car, drives off a bridge somewhere, locks her in, swims to safety, goes home, wakes up, eats breakfast, meets his buddies, calls his lawyer, and then just says this was all a misunderstanding, everything will be A-OK.


I see what you did there.

Jim_Callahan: In my imaginary world where the legal system is for redress of legitimate grievances rather than the profit of unethical plaintiff's attourneys, though, I'd be disbarring any such attourney that advised a client to file a lawsuit against someone based on 'they have money' rather than 'they're at fault'.

And your evidence that he did that is what, precisely? What they tell you on TV?

lilbjorn:
Because this definitely compares in every way to sex with children.

sexual immorality is sexual immorality. you don't cheat on your wife. Someone as upstanding as John Edwards should know better. Apparently his "two America's" speech describes one America of him and his rich friends, and another America for all their illigitimate children.

FreudulentSplit Or are you talking about the family values of sexual repression, frequent divorce, mistress on the side that most people in the pulpit and politics live?

Care to prove this disgustingly generalized asshattery?

Whatever, nobody needs Edwards anymore. He shouldn't be allowed to speak at the convention, nor should Hillary. Kennedy can speak via teleconference, and maybe Rockefeller can get up and say a few words. Other than that, Obama will just run the entire show. It's a coronation biatches!

While the nation is obsessed with sex they won't be seeing the truly immoral sheeyat this government engages in.
Typical.

Existensial dyslexia: it warms my heart to see Democrats embroiled in scandal. and to all of you who have laughed at the GOP recently, yes, the pot does call the kettle black from time to time.

At least he (allegedly) did it with a woman.

/Not that there's anything wrong with that.

kronicfeld: And your evidence that he did that is what, precisely? What they tell you on the TV?

Fixed that...

DarnoKonrad: What career in politics? He's just a dude -- neither serving, nor running to serve.


Apparently you haven't been to America yet, so I'll help you out with this one. John Edwards is a very active figure in American politics. Most recently it's well known that he has been courting Obama for a possible VP spot. Before that he had been running for president since his announcement in 2006, and was the third place candidate in the primaries, behind only Obama and Clinton.

He was the VP candidate in the 2004 general elections. He had been a Senator before that, and did not run for re-election in order to run for president instead. Judging from his history, there is a high likelihood that he will try and run again for president in 20012 or 2016 (depending on who wins in 2008).

These days he works full time at a PAC he founded in 2001, the One America Committee, which is "dedicated to working to fight poverty and lift more Americans into the middle class, as well as helping elect Democratic candidates across the country,". He also does political and legal consulting and often makes appearances on various TV shows promoting his own and Democrat Party concerns.

So as you can see, he is a prominent political figure who is *very* active in American politics. He's run for our highest profile positions and will undoubtedly be running again - if this scandal doesn't have any truth to it and thus doesn't cripple his political career of course...

Good luck planning your visit to our fine country! The dollar is running relatively low compared to many other currencies at the moment, so now is an ideal time to visit! Despite what you hear from our own news and clueless intellectual class - we're a very welcoming country and I just know you're going to enjoy the trip!

Given the guaranteed caterwauling from the Hypocrite opposition party, his career IS over.

guys like John Edwards is a dime a dozen in the upper levels of politics, just kick him to the curb and get some other schmuck to take his place...

Please stop with this recurrent AG bullshiat. Before you nominate and confirm Edwards for any post in Obama's cabinet, ask a North Carolinian whom Edwards claimed to represent in congress why that joker couldn't even deliver his own state as Kerry's runningmate.

Here's a hint. He's a prettyboy stuffed shirt with his eye on the Whitehouse and not his current job, whatever that job may be. AG needs to be an experienced, winning prosecutor, not an ambulance chaser. Get someone in the AG spot who's put away mob bosses and terrorists, not extorted insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

Winning a settlement because it's less expensive than ejudication is not equivalent to successful prosecution of criminals, no matter how noxious the insurance and pharma industries have become.

Let's hear it for Family Values!

I might believe the Enquirer if their big money shot wasn't a blurry picture that conclusively proved the father of John Edwards' love child was Chris Noth.

Or John Barrowman. One of the two.

This story that won't go away. It proves the Democratic Party will do anything to prove Edwards isn't gay.

Democratic party bigwigs think John Edwards needs to address the mistress issue or his career in politics is toast

In which of the two Americas will his career be toast?

Aexia: I might believe the Enquirer if their big money shot wasn't a blurry picture that conclusively proved the father of John Edwards' love child was Chris Noth.

High resolution non-digital pics or it didn't happen.

Existensial dyslexia: lilbjorn:
Because this definitely compares in every way to sex with children.

sexual immorality is sexual immorality. you don't cheat on your wife. Someone as upstanding as John Edwards should know better. Apparently his "two America's" speech describes one America of him and his rich friends, and another America for all their illigitimate children.

That actually wasn't bad as a troll. It made me laugh, anyway.

Oh, I don't know.... 6/10. Maybe 7.

Aaandd Edwards is about to come out and admit to the affair.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5441195&page=1

MSNBC just announced Edwards is admitting to having an affair.

Snipped from cnn.com's Political Ticker:

Breaking: Edwards admits lying about affair
Posted: 03:05 PM ET

(CNN) - John Edwards said Friday he had lied about his affair with a film-maker throughout his presidential campaign, according to ABC News.

He also said he had not fathered the 5-month-old child of Rielle Hunter, 42, although he also said he had not taken a paternity test.

In a Nightline interview set to air tonight, Edwards said he knew he was not the father because of the timing of the birth. His former aide Andrew Young has claimed paternity.

Last month, he told reporters that he had not been lying during his presidential bid when he denied having a relationship with Hunter. "I have no idea what you are asking about I have responded to consistently to these tabloid allegations by saying I don't respond to these lies," said Edwards.

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