pics or it didn't happen

Nrokreffefp: freewill: His private life should have no bearing on his political career, its as simple a concept as ad hominem attacks being logical fallacies. .

I was thinking about this earlier; that sentiment keeps cropping up in politics whether its the French/Italian presidents, Senators/Representatives, Presidents, or potential candidates, or even that guy from the IMF.

Think about this: what if his private life is something he's ashamed of? Doesn't that open a man (or woman) up to all kinds of potential for blackmail and extortion? In all seriousness, frankly once someone has command of most/all of the military and/or nuclear codes, or great power over national policy, damn right their private life has a bearing on their political actions. If they've got a deep dark secret they want left alone, and someone suddenly brings it up and says 'do this or I'll tell the world', isn't that reason enough to want full disclosure from the people we elect to lead us?

Honestly I don't care if a politician has a mistress or two, a kid out of wedlock, or youthful drug use. If they perhaps were involved in a negligent death but were found innocent, I'm still willing to accept that people make mistakes and learn from them and maybe become better leaders because of it. I do not however think it's acceptable to sweep things under the rug. Own up to it and show how it's made you stronger, but don't excuse it as 'your private life'. It's the 21st century, if you want that much power, you have no private life. God knows I've made mistakes personally and professionally, but I won't lie about them and I believe they've shown me how to handle future situations where I might have floundered in the past.

So she ripped her shirt and bra off. Big deal. It's not like she had tits anymore anyway.

/one please

I hate this crap. It's pretty clear that he didn't steal money, and if he had some friends pay for stuff for his girlfriend, who gives a shiat?

Anybody think that it's coincidence that this trial is going to be its seediest right as the national campaigns get underway? No? Didn't think so.

Clinton was a scumbag but a good President. Edwards and Richardson are both scumbags who would have made good Presidents. Being an egotistical sociopath doesn't keep you from being a good President- it's almost a requirement.

And just think, at one time, there was a metric shiatload of Democrats who thought this pantload deserved to be president. Thank God his pier collapsed before his ship came in.

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Pam scares me.

It's embarrassing, but I identify with her. Overweight, massively horny, totally crude and pretty violent.

/plus I hand out blow jobs like puffy stickers
//but I drink less

This guy just needs to kill himself.

FTA: Ms Reynolds said Mrs Edwards had screamed: "You don't see me any more." Then she took off her shirt and bra, exposing herself to her husband in front of his staff, the court heard.

"He didn't have much of a reaction," Ms Reynolds said.

Mrs Edwards had gone through intense treatment for breast cancer before the incident took place.

This part of the article just about brought a tear to my eye. The pain she must have been going through at that moment...incredibly sad. And the bystanders must have been horrified by the spectacle.

If you read Game Change, you see that Elizabeth was not a nice person. At all. Even so she did not deserve to be treated like John treated her.

And as bad a person as he is- a very bad and phony person indeed- I don't think he violated "campaign finance law" and so should be acquitted.

Meanwhile Andrew Young and his wife seem to have stolen a million dollars of the hush money to build their 'dream home.' The biggest crooks of all got immunity to testify against Edwards for a nonexistent crime!

This case is a kaleidoscope of greed and narcissism and insanity. I feel sorry for Edwards's children, but for him and the rest of the hangers on and groupies, I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.

OHDUDENESS: TWX: He's a slimeball for cheating on his wife while she was ill and slowly heading toward death from it.

He doesn't hold a candle to Newt Gingrich, who cheated at least twice.

So, numerical count over severity of crime? Two speeding tickets @ 5mph over are worse than reckless in a school zone?
Got it.

Newt also served his wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital with cancer. So was was doing a little more than 5 mph over.

He's a slimeball for cheating on his wife while she was ill and slowly heading toward death from it.

He doesn't hold a candle to Newt Gingrich, who cheated at least twice.

Do I have to be the first one to say that Elizabeth was kind of hot, in that martha stewart, kay bailey hutchinson sort of way?

I should stop watching CNN in the morning. When this "news" network ran this story, the talking head lavished shame and judgment on Edwards (he could have been president!) before spending a second telling the news, which was the contents of the Fark headline.

Real news organizations tell the news and leave moralizing to the people who hear the news.

goodwynn: He is a jackass. Elizabeth Edwards in her prime:




And this is her revenge beyond the grave. Her "I'm Dying and My Husband is a Douchebag" Tour on all the relevant talk shows sealed it.

Nrokreffefp: freewill: "He didn't have much of a reaction," Ms Reynolds said.

That would be because he is a farking monster.

You should read "The Prince". Machiavelli said (according to my reading) that the ruler was essentially a sacrifice to immorality for the good of a society. Edward's lack of reaction was simply good sense. His private life should have no bearing on his political career, its as simple a concept as ad hominem attacks being logical fallacies. You don't know the details of their relationship, unbunch your panties. This account certainly makes her sound like a psychotic moron to me, even if she was wronged. Women should not marry influential or wealthy men and expect fidelity, it is probably the easiest road to heartbreak.

Don't know much about Edwards, but my inner pedant feels compelled to point out that many people believe that The Prince was intended as satire.
http://www.historytoday.com/vincent-barnett/niccolo-machiavelli-%E2%8 0 %93-cunning-critic-political-reason

Nrokreffefp: freewill: "He didn't have much of a reaction," Ms Reynolds said.

That would be because he is a farking monster.

You should read "The Prince". Machiavelli said (according to my reading) that the ruler was essentially a sacrifice to immorality for the good of a society. Edward's lack of reaction was simply good sense. His private life should have no bearing on his political career, its as simple a concept as ad hominem attacks being logical fallacies. You don't know the details of their relationship, unbunch your panties. This account certainly makes her sound like a psychotic moron to me, even if she was wronged. Women should not marry influential or wealthy men and expect fidelity, it is probably the easiest road to heartbreak.

I think it has more to do with Edwards meeting Type I (personality) criteria for psychopathy than anything else.

The guy was a smooth-talking, skin-deep charmer, pathological liar, deceiver, and a self-centered, grandiose narcissist. The flagrant lack of empathy, combined with what can only be described as proto-emotions - he obviously lacked the capacity for forming any sort of complex emotions - the only emotion he ever showed was outrage/anger when others attacked his character, is what was on full-display here. There was no Machievellian cogs turning in his head; the only thing he was thinking was, "Why the fark won't this biatch just farking die already?"

His wife was exhibiting what can only be described as soul-crushing pain, and he lacked the ability to empathize with her in the slightest; it will probably be revealed that he was angered that she had the audacity to confront him in public where reporters may be watching.

/plus, malpractice attorneys = the ultimate definition for parasitic lifestyle
//I wouldn't put it past him to have murdered her as she started to get more and more "in the way" - the breast cancer would have provided him with a perfect cover for her demise

You guys are missing the funny part.

Edwards is in trouble because of campaign finance laws. Incumbent politicians love those laws, because it makes it so much more difficult for grass roots types to run against them. So step one in any 'outsider' campaign is; a couple million dollars of legal work, before you can even start fund raising.

When an incumbent ignores those laws; they aren't prosecuted. Look at all of Hillary's violations - an outsider would have gone to prison over all that Chinese funny money.

But now it looks like Edwards is going to prison; because he embezzled from his own campaign. They finally screwed one of their own, with their 'protect the incumbent' horseshiat.

It's Wonderful.



He should never have come out of that toilet.

Nrokreffefp: freewill: "He didn't have much of a reaction," Ms Reynolds said.

That would be because he is a farking monster.

You should read "The Prince". Machiavelli said (according to my reading) that the ruler was essentially a sacrifice to immorality for the good of a society. Edward's lack of reaction was simply good sense. His private life should have no bearing on his political career, its as simple a concept as ad hominem attacks being logical fallacies. You don't know the details of their relationship, unbunch your panties. This account certainly makes her sound like a psychotic moron to me, even if she was wronged. Women should not marry influential or wealthy men and expect fidelity, it is probably the easiest road to heartbreak.

I'm with you for most of this save for the fact that he used his family as part of his act.

It's fair game to call you out on your charade when you use it as part of your image.

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Pam scares me.

It's embarrassing, but I identify with her. Overweight, massively horny, totally crude and pretty violent.

/plus I hand out blow jobs like puffy stickers
//but I drink less

We can work on the drinking...

/otherwise, how YOU doing...?

If he's lucky, very lucky, his daughter might forgive him enough to sit at his deathbed when the day comes for him to pass.

The Jami Turman Fan ClubI hate this crap. It's pretty clear that he didn't steal money, and if he had some friends pay for stuff for his girlfriend, who gives a shiat?

That's not at all what he is accused of doing. He accepted money (way more than allowable) from people who believed they were supporting his campaign. Then used their money to instead cover up his affair. That would be like me giving you money under the assumption that you were taking donations for cancer research, and you using it to have a keg party.

TWX: He's a slimeball for cheating on his wife while she was ill and slowly heading toward death from it.

He doesn't hold a candle to Newt Gingrich, who cheated at least twice.

Sanctity of marriage! wharrrblgrbl!!!!

NewportBarGuy: This is just such a disgusting story. I'm not reading any more of it. Lock him up and fine the sh*t out of him just for being a horrible human being.


Sorry but being a piece of shiat is not a crime and this prosecution will fail. There was no crime. He'll walk.

bugontherug: OHDUDENESS: TWX: He's a slimeball for cheating on his wife while she was ill and slowly heading toward death from it.

He doesn't hold a candle to Newt Gingrich, who cheated at least twice.

So, numerical count over severity of crime? Two speeding tickets @ 5mph over are worse than reckless in a school zone?
Got it.

Newt also served his wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital with cancer. So was was doing a little more than 5 mph over.



Dude, I'm not a Gingrich fan by any means, but the comparison was bunk and so is your data. Sorry. Edwards is on a whole different level of douche-tasticness.

"In 2011 their daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, remembers that it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital stay, and that Gingrich's visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple's children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce." - Cushman, Jackie Gingrich (May 7, 2011). "Setting the Record Straight". Creators Syndicate. Retrieved May 9, 2011.

And this is relevant how?

Man, zombie PMS is a biatch.

The chick he f*cked isn't even that hot. Idiot slimeball.