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Edwards To Admit Paternity of Hunter's Child
Posted on 08/13/09, 11:20 pm
http://www.wral.com/news/local/pol...
WRAL news says a source has told them John Edwards will admit paternity of the child of Reille Hunter, with whom he had an affair when she was the videographer of Edward's failed Presidential primary campaign. And aide to Edwards on the campaign initially came out and said he was the father, but he is now writing a book naming Edwards as the father. A grand jury has been investigating whether Edwards used campaign money in '08 to keep Hunter silent. Hunter testified before that jury this week.
I wonder if the Edwards' marriage can survive this.
WRAL news says a source has told them John Edwards will admit paternity of the child of Reille Hunter, with whom he had an affair when she was the videographer of Edward's failed Presidential primary campaign. And aide to Edwards on the campaign initially came out and said he was the father, but he is now writing a book naming Edwards as the father. A grand jury has been investigating whether Edwards used campaign money in '08 to keep Hunter silent. Hunter testified before that jury this week.
I wonder if the Edwards' marriage can survive this.
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Reply #1 08/14/09 2:45am
I feel sorry for his wife. -
Reply #2 08/14/09 5:00am
Yes; terminal cancer, his affair, and now the mistress has a child for which he will be liable for child support. A living reminder of his infidelity. I feel very bad for poor Elizabeth also. -
Reply #3 08/14/09 8:41am
Not to be judgmental to Elizabeth Edwards but how could she keep campaigning for Edwards candidancy when she knew about the affair. Her husband could have been the Democratic candidate for the presidency. -
Reply #4 08/14/09 9:31am
Yes, it was reckless of Elizabeth Edwards to campaign for him but for me on a personal level my heart goes out to her. What a jerk he is. -
Reply #5 08/14/09 3:33pm
If every man who had extramarital affairs did not run for office, we wouldn't have had a lot of Presidents we have had, including JFK, FDR, Clinton, and a whole bunch of them I can't even remember. I disagree. I don't think it was reckless for Elizabeth to campgaign for him. I don't see how the two things are connected. To me, men are like this. It's like it's in their DNA. -
Reply #6 08/14/09 3:41pm
But in this instance had Edwards won the nomination would not the Republicans had a field day with all the dirt they could have dug up. The affair to begin with, the hint of a child and then Edwards paying his mistress off with hush money from his campaign funds. Do you really think Edwards could have won the election??? -
Reply #7 08/14/09 7:53pm
Boomer, I didn't know who was going to win the nomination, much less the election, and neither did anybody else. We were all surprised I think, that Obama won over the great Hillary. And the D's were really worried that McCain might indeed win the Presidency. Obama's election was a wonderful surprise - it seemed like a tight race.
The hush money stuff didn't come out till recently. It's hard to say what the R's could gin up on Edwards - there were rumors of John MCain having an affair with a campaign staff member, I forget who - and it never really went anywhere. Besides - who knows who can win an election nowadays? Remember when Hillary was a "shoo in" - for the nomination? Her "inevitability? We all thought SHE would be nominated, remember?
What I don't understand is why you guys are blaming the victim - making this all about Elizabeth's "sin" for campaigning for her husband
while knowing he had an affair. I thought women would empathize with this poor lady who has had this public humiliation and breach of trust in her marriage, while dealing with terminal cancer, but I guess I thought wrong.
I guess in this thread, nobody cares about Elizabeth but me. -
Reply #8 08/15/09 6:55pm
No - you have my vote on that one Shevan.
As to her continuing to campaign - politicians wives always
campaign with their husbands - that's part of the
job. So - she did her job.
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For her to rock the boat, at that time, would have created entirely
too much uncertainty for her.. She already had fear of her death
looming up in front of her and facing death alone - well .......intolerable.
I feel very sorry for this woman - she's a bright, caring person and
she deserved better.
Shevan - as to your question about their marriage surviving this
experience - I think she will stay but from what I've seen in interviews there is no
love left in that relationship - she appears to be furious with him and sick of his
crap.
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Reply #9 08/15/09 7:31pm
Linda Jean - Thank you - you are spot on!! I agree with everything you say; I did leave unsaid what I thought, as you said, that campaigning for her husband is part of her job!! I am glad to know someone else can see that this poor woman has been pulled through a knothole by life, and she doesn't deserve it; Lynne Cheney maybe, but not Elizabeth Edwards! I see her as you do; a kind, caring, bright woman silently suffering alongside her handsome, charismatic politician husband. She may not be facing death in the near future; she has said with her kind of cancer, it could be ten years. Imagine - I would not want to live with that Sword of Damocles hanging over my head for all that time. And I am sure she is furious at him. I know I sure would be. -
Reply #10 08/29/09 2:54am
So, I never did hear, IS the kid his?
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