Well, only because she was a lobbyist.
I think my last post rebutted all of this. The fact that he finally admitted the child was his doesn’t change anything about the state of his career and maybe it’s not relevant now, but then again, the story came out while he was campaigning and this last announcement was mostly greeted by yawns. Nobody on the SDMB even commented on that news the day it broke. And yes, it’s news if it turns out a former presidential candidate and a current cabinet candidate has to admit he’s had an affair. It’s prurient news, but it’s news.
I hate to break it to you dude, but that’s not the “only” reason.
Well, that’s the only thing that would be relevant to me.
Nobody talked much about his admitted affairs.
Not much debate about whether his career is over - and today comes news that his marriage is probably over as well.
Elizabeth Edwards is reportedly separating from John, and told friends she is moving on with her life.
I find this very sad. I was never impressed with Edwards at all but I didn’t wish him particular ill either, nor his family. And the fact that this was inflicted by John doesn’t make it any less painful for the parties involved.
I think it does. Anger seems to be pretty good at deadening pain, for a while at least.
Of course his career is over. If you have a dying wife and *still *manage to lose the sympathy vote, there is no hope for you.
Regards,
Shodan
Very well said. But perhaps he can find another card to play – maybe he was a poor black child who had a disease which leeched the pigment from his skin?
Or maybe another member of his family will die, and he will handle that one better.
Although he doesn’t seem to be improving with practice.
Regards,
Shodan
Does he have any kids? A dying child is solid gold for political points.
Stick a fork in him he’s done.
Maybe Edwards and Tiger could get a place together and lick each others wounds…
I’m more upset at Edwards because of his position he should have known better. He threw away his political career. Tiger lost his endorsements but if he can still play golf he will still have a career albeit tarnished.
I don’t know if I am being wooshed or not (wouldnt be the first time) but John and Elizabeth Edwards lost a 16 year-old son in a car crash several years back.
John Edwards went on to invoke his dead son’s memory on numerous occasions when he felt it was politically advantageous to do so.
He is (even by a politician’s standards) a sleazy, shameless piece of shit, who can’t even manage to hook up with a hot mistress, instead choosing a scare-pie skank who most men wouldnt hit after last call at an Oklahoma City area Applebees.
No whoosh, I really didn’t know. So he cashed the kid chip in earlier…
He cashed it in shortly after he died. He bought his son’s high school a new wing, and the ran for senate.
ABC News is reporting that he made a sex tape with his then-pregnant mistress a few months before the Iowa Caucas.
How long before the tape gets leaked? That is not something I would get off watching.
He’s so totally done.
It’s worth pointing out that Young has a book coming out next week and he’s trying to drum up sales. But at this point you would believe John Edwards could have done all of that stuff, and the Dave Matthews thing, too, which shows what he would be up against if he ever ran for office again.
All too true. Newsweek’s postmortem on the 2004 presidential campaign mentioned that after Kerry picked Edwards as his running mate, Edwards told him a tear-in-his-eye, heart-in-his-throat story about swearing a vow of public service over the body of his dead son, assuring Kerry he’d never told anyone that before and swearing him to secrecy. Kerry was horrified… Edwards had told him the exact same story a few months earlier.
I remember a very flattering New Yorker article on Edwards in the first year or two of his U.S. Senate term. He seemed like a smart, persuasive, appealing guy with a great life story who was going places. Had I but known!
Now I’d say he’s done, as a politician at least. I can’t see him getting elected or appointed to anything in a very, very long time, if ever. What a scumbag… what a waste.
I wasn’t aware that he still had a career. It’s been long over.
That is the exact story I was thinking of.
And you are 100% right—What a waste, destroying both a family and a career, now despised by the entire nation, all for what?
Where is Starving Artist when you need him?