This is a most excellent idea. I wonder if Maury’s people are already making phone calls. If nothing else, this should be acted out in puppet theater.
My guess is that
He had the affair and confessed
Then he went back and did it again …this time he knocked her up
He never confessed to the relapse
He confidently agrees to a paternity test because he knew SHE wouldn’t agree
It’s fun to make stuff up.
It is high time this thread was ended, because criticism of Edwards only detracts from his overriding mission to help those in need. Edwards made that clear in his statement:
- If you want to beat me up – feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare* and will now work with everything I have** to help my family and others who need my help."*
So you meanies better shut up now. You’re taking food and health care away from underprivileged Americans.
*not unless the Enquirer has more than it’s been showing so far.
**is Edwards selling off the mansion and estate, or was that a metaphor?
The fact that the mistress in question is refusing to take the paternity test makes me think it likely that the child’s father is Edwards. Also, if it really was the other dude (the campaign aide) why did she refuse to list a father on the birth certificate? Doesn’t make sense.
Who’s to say she without an agenda here herself? That baby’s father could be anyone (well, anyone male).
Well, the campaign aide is married with 3 children. So it’s not obvious that he would want to be listed.
Clay Aiken just fathered a baby…
Maybe two!
What is in it for her to submit to such a test? If it were me I would not submit to such a test just to clear things up for people following the story in the news. I might have it done if I wanted child support from the father or I did not know who the father was and wanted to find out who it was.
There might be something in it for the child – like knowing the medical history of both parents, which might turn out to be important some day.
If so, it’s none of our damn business one way or another.
I’m pretty sure she knows who the father is.
Not necesarily. I’ve seen all too many episodes of Maury where 10 suspected fathers of one woman’s baby all test negative! :eek:
Again, Edwards has admitted an affair. The rest is none of our damn business.
What would be the legality of some smarty-pants reporter securing a DNA sample of the child and Senator Edwards and running a DNA check? I am thinking some hair from the barber’s floor or something.
If Edwards isn’t the father, and she can prove it, then maybe the press will stop hounding her. As it is, she’s leaving the door open. Whether it’s any of our damn business is besides the point. She’s become a public figure, and people like to gossip. Deal with it.
I am for Obama and for the Democratic party all the way, but I’ve always hated Edwards. He’s always seemed to be total fucking mendacious phony, and I’ve never quite gotten the whole brilliant policy aspect that people claim for him. He’s got the right ideas, sure, but so did Clinton and Obama; the question was who was best able to lead, and I certainly didn’t see him as so able.
Here’s an example of what a truly phony, creepy liar he is. Link from Time:
I always hated how this rich guy seemed to feel he could “own” poverty as his issue, as if the poor just couldn’t get along without his help. BS.
Instances of successful lobbying and political mobilization at the national level by the poor are, AFAICT, few and far between. Usually it does, in fact, take someone with resources and access to the media to agitate on their behalf; otherwise they’re ignored.
I’d be delighted to be shown how wrong I am.
Except that Edwards explicitly made it our business - based on his earlier comments about personal behavior being an important consideration in determining a person’s capacity to lead. He had this to say in 1999 about Bill Clinton’s dalliance with Monica Lewinsky:
“I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen.”
By Edwards’ own standards, he has shown disrespect for his office and for the “moral dimensions” of leadership. His behavior (and we still don’t know if the whole story is out) is relevant to whether he should be supported in a bid for higher office or named to a top post in a future Democratic administration.