However, you will be pleased to know his vanity project here at UNC-Chapel Hill (the Center for Poverty, Work and Opportunity) is still in existence, and still providing crony jobs on the taxpayer's dime. It's not like he's going to be doing without his lunch money.

This.

/North Carolina, the new New Jersey

in Durham, maybe.

Skit. Stupid phone...

And regardless, his political career is ruined, just like Eliot Spitzer.
Young and middle aged Dems, better walk the straight and narrow or this will be your fate.
Meanwhile, here's some hot and heavy GOP action.

paygun: Not totally vindicated it seems, since coverage still doesn't give his party affiliation.

FTFA: Edwards was on trial on charges of violating campaign finance laws in his run for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

So, how's that persecution complex doing for you?

Can we all move on now? He's a failed VP and Presidential candidate. Who gives a fark? It's soap opera entertainment BS and it pisses me off that the media laps this shiat up.

zippolight2002: Crocodilly_Pontifex: Brick-House: Retry????

can't.

Doesn't a mistrial allow for a re-trial on those 5 other counts?

Yeah, but typically when a jury deliberates for nine days and comes up with one acquittal and hung jury on five counts, doing the whole thing over again will usually result in more acquittals or yet another hung jury. Depends on the vote. If it was 11-1 in favor of conviction, that's one thing-do it again. If it was 1-11, or even 7-5, there's probably no point in a retrial.

Anybody know what the vote count was?

Broktun: Englebert Slaptyback: Broktun

Did I mis-read TFA, or are FARKERS dumber than I thought.


Or maybe you need to get your sarcasmonometer recalibrated.

I'm at work, with 5 females, who are all monstrating, sarcasm is not allowed.

What a Monstrator might look like:

FunkyPhantom: [i.imgur.com image 235x254]

I bet he didn't see that happening.

Well-played.

....leaving satisfied.

ongbok: stirfrybry: So it is cool to hide your mistress and lovechild with money from political ties?

The more you know!

It's not illegal as long as the money you are using to do it doesn't come out of your campaign fund. In this case they couldn't prove that it did, in fact all evidence pointed to it being a gift to him that was separate from donations into his campaign fund.

I haven't really followed the case - but couldn't you also point out that since hiding her was crucial to his campaign - accepting such a large gift violated contribution limits?

I mean then anyone could begin gifting politicians large sums of money and hiding it through clever ways. Slippery slope.

Kurmudgeon: And regardless, his political career is ruined, just like Eliot Spitzer.
Young and middle aged Dems, better walk the straight and narrow or this will be your fate.
Meanwhile, here's some hot and heavy GOP action.
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Meh, he was done politically anyways. He was never going to hold elected office before this; this just takes the already buried coffin and pours concrete on it and builds a 7/11 on top.

kliq: Can we all move on now? He's a failed VP and Presidential candidate. Who gives a fark? It's soap opera entertainment BS and it pisses me off that the media laps this shiat up.

Of all the different types of apathy in the world, I think I like this "self-righteous, annoyed to be informed" kind the best.

/ cuz who cares if he committed fraud with money others' entrusted to him.

GoodOmens: I haven't really followed the case - but couldn't you also point out that since hiding her was crucial to his campaign - accepting such a large gift violated contribution limits?

They had to prove intent, and prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. Sometimes friends just do things for each other, and sometimes it's for dishonorable but legal reasons like hiding a mistress from a hysterical shrew of a wife.

GoodOmens: ongbok: stirfrybry: So it is cool to hide your mistress and lovechild with money from political ties?

The more you know!

It's not illegal as long as the money you are using to do it doesn't come out of your campaign fund. In this case they couldn't prove that it did, in fact all evidence pointed to it being a gift to him that was separate from donations into his campaign fund.

I haven't really followed the case - but couldn't you also point out that since hiding her was crucial to his campaign - accepting such a large gift violated contribution limits?

I mean then anyone could begin gifting politicians large sums of money and hiding it through clever ways. Slippery slope.

Nope because it didn't violate any law and saying what you are saying is a stretch that even Stretch Armstrong would have a hard time making. Plus the person who gave him the money paid a gift tax on it. So they would have to prove that the money went directly to his campaign activities, and hiding a mistress doesn't count.

No matter how sainted Elizabeth Edwards is, she singlehandedly set the unreachable benchmark in Magnificent Bastardry, Revenge Edition.

Husband has a mistress with an out-of-wedlock child while you're dying of cancer? Write a book and go on a Farewell Tour letting people know how much of a douchebag your husband is.

She didn't just scorched the earth; she nuked the galaxy.

It's a shame the legal system waited until he was a defendant to work, and didn't start up when he was a douchebag trial lawyer making millions upon millions in trials against doctors for a disease they didn't cause.

Anyway, I've followed this saga probably more closely than I should, and no one comes out of it looking good. Except Cheri Young. Cheri, please ditch that pathetic little toady of a husband.

"Was there a verdict? There was? Because that's what I'm getting. I'm getting a 'G'. Galty, goolty? Guilty? Guilty? I't guilty, and I'm getting a 'not'. So guilty? Not guilty? Definitely one of those. Who's Bob?"

NANCY GRACE STRIKES AGAIN!

He never took the stand. That speaks volumes.

FTGodWin: kliq: Can we all move on now? He's a failed VP and Presidential candidate. Who gives a fark? It's soap opera entertainment BS and it pisses me off that the media laps this shiat up.

Of all the different types of apathy in the world, I think I like this "self-righteous, annoyed to be informed" kind the best.

/ cuz who cares if he committed fraud with money others' entrusted to him.

Does this warrant round-the-clock coverage with endless pictures of him walking to and from a courthouse? How much time has been spent, by comparison, on the volatile Egyptian election or the Syrian genocide taking place?

Geotpf: Meh, he was done politically anyways. He was never going to hold elected office before this; this just takes the already buried coffin and pours concrete on it and builds a 7/11 on top.

I think you misunderstand just how popular he was before this scandal.
The point still stands though.

I knew every'ting would be ok, John. Now come on home, bebbe.

Kurmudgeon: Geotpf: Meh, he was done politically anyways. He was never going to hold elected office before this; this just takes the already buried coffin and pours concrete on it and builds a 7/11 on top.

I think you misunderstand just how popular he was before this scandal.
The point still stands though.

He got beat by John Kerry in 2004. JOHN KERRY.

In 2008, he scored a whopping 4 1/2 delegates.

I don't think he was ever all that popular, to be honest.

Baby, you left me defenseless
I'm horny as can be
Lock me away inside of your love
And make me burn when I pee
I'm guilty... of gross douchebaggery.

No. Just douchebag.

Close2TheEdge: Facebook - ZOMG! STRING HIM UP!

There ain't no justice until there is mob justice.

The BEST kind of justice!

LeroyBourne: He never took the stand. That speaks volumes.

You fail law forever. In fact, a judge should hold you in contempt for even being in a courtroom.

jj325: Edwards' mother, Bobbie Edwards, said, "We prayed for this and God answered our prayers."

If only they had prayed to cure Elizabeth when she had cancer.....

Unfortunately, real 'Murcans prayed harder for her to die simply because she was Edwards' wife.

His only regret...

Is that he has...



Bone-itis.

Brick-House: Retry????
Retry
Retrial
Retarded (Edwards, not you)

John Edwards gets 2 breaking news topics. Yesterday's Seattle shooter gets zero.

HeartBurnKid: He got beat by John Kerry in 2004. JOHN KERRY

He was John Kerry's VP selection, hardly the bottoming out of popularity you attempt to make it.
As for people voting for Dubya over the decorated war vet, well, the idiocy of that has been well documented and continues to be an issue to this day.

ecmoRandomNumbers: Pants full of macaroni!!: Just goes to show you, and it'll show you once again: JURIES LOVE FAMOUS PEOPLE.

This.

I'm convinced that it's part of our DNA -- something to do with our evolution and survival.

It's probably related to the "What is Beautiful is Good" theory.

Related material: Link

onearmedninja: I think the saddest part of this is that noone will be surprised by this verdict.

Especially the jurors.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Not seeing it in TFA, which charge was he found not guilty of?

It's probably been answered for you already, but if not, he was found not guilty of count number 3 illegal campaign contributions. A mistrial on count 1 conspiracy, count 2 illegal campaign contributions, count 4 illegal campaign contributions, count 5 illegal campaign contributions, count 6 false statements.

Hope this helps.

stirfrybry: So it is cool to hide your mistress and lovechild with money from political ties?

The more you know!

ongbok: I figured if the jury could separate his behavior as a husband from what they were there to decide he would be acquitted. After all the facts are that the Bunny Mellon chick gave the money that this whole thing was about to him, and she even paid gift taxes on it, not his campaign.

Unfortunately not all juries are that smart. Hell, an alternate was flirting with him in the courtroom, practically stripping! The jury loved him. I knew how this would go when I heard about the alternate and also too by how long the jury was taking to come back with a verdict. When a judge has to ORDER them to come to a verdict, it does not look good for prosecution. Sorry.

Banged a butterface while his wife battled cancer.

Don't care that he got a mistrial, because publicly this guy is O.J. with slightly better hair.

/his punishment will be lifelong.

G-Rot: Banged a butterface while his wife battled cancer.

Don't care that he got a mistrial, because publicly this guy is O.J. with slightly better hair.

/his punishment will be lifelong.



you know who else had an affair while his wife was in the hospital with cancer?

Republicans: stop wasting tax payer dollars trying to prosecute Democrats for doing things that aren't illegal, even though they may be immoral. It's one major reason why moderates turn away from your party.

The Justice Department: NOT your hit-squad.

G-Rot: Banged a butterface while his wife battled cancer.

Don't care that he got a mistrial, because publicly this guy is O.J. with slightly better hair.

/his punishment will be lifelong.



you know who left his first wife and kids when he met a young ,pretty girl half his age who had a rich daddy who wanted to buy a politician and needed a "war hero" to back?

Not saying that Edwards isn't a total douche and deserves to be shunned.
but the GOP has more than their share of those who have done the same or worse that they have forgiven and taken back into the fold.