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cali

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14. Your post is sickening
Fri May 11, 2012, 03:19 PM
May 2012

I don't know if he's a criminal. Neither do you. He isn't being prosecuted for fucking Rielle Hunter. He's being prosecuted for misusing campaign funds. I have my doubts about the case, but you are not describing it accurately.

Do I judge JE? You bet I do. Not so much for his cheating on his dying wife, but for his being a complete phony and a shameless liar and for using poor people as his campaign hook.

That fuckwad went to "work" for a sleazy hedge fund and when questioned about it, he said he was trying to learn about poverty.

This is a man who was completely driven by his own smarm ego and he wasn't above using his dead son to get what he wanted.

&quot Kerry) was even queasier about Edwards after they met. Edwards had told Kerry he was going to share a story with him that he'd never told anyone else -- that after his son Wade had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he'd do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade's ideals of service. Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the same exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before -- and with the same preface, that he'd never shared the memory with anyone else. Kerry said he found it chilling, and he decided he couldn't pick Edwards unless he met with him again. "

From Robert Shrum's book "No Excuses".

He didn't have a fucking breakdown. He's a vile little man who's caused much suffering.

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John Edwards [View all] stellanoir May 2012 OP
Bankers walk but Edwards stands trial - justice in America. polichick May 2012 #1
I don't judge what he did with Rielle Hunter, my anger has to do with his taking money from Happyhippychick May 2012 #2
bingo... Whiskeytide May 2012 #24
Never liked him. Never trusted him. Proud Public Servant May 2012 #3
If he illegally used campaign funds then he is a criminal. Ruby the Liberal May 2012 #4
Oh... so that's what it's called now? "Seeking Comfort." Fawke Em May 2012 #5
When fluffed like that... Capt. Obvious May 2012 #6
Seeking comfort? MineralMan May 2012 #7
"oh boo hoo, its not his fault!" quinnox May 2012 #8
*sob* My wife has cancer *sob* Comfort MEEEEEE with sex. DevonRex May 2012 #9
wah dahlin, ahm studyin this here hedge fund to fight pahvetty for mah campaign dionysus May 2012 #13
Yes, I do. DevonRex May 2012 #15
His character isn't being deliberated. DearAbby May 2012 #10
criminal? perhaps not. sleazy con man? most certainly... dionysus May 2012 #11
Oh yeah, and why the fancy word paramour? Mistress too good for her ladyship? DevonRex May 2012 #12
Your post is sickening cali May 2012 #14
That just gave me chills. DevonRex May 2012 #20
On point! nt Raine May 2012 #25
John Edwards had every opportunity Aerows May 2012 #16
"Seeking comfort"? The Velveteen Ocelot May 2012 #17
Sounds like the Ashly Madison ads. JoePhilly May 2012 #18
+1. nt seabeyond May 2012 #28
here's something you can boohoo about: JE Judge refuses to dismiss case cali May 2012 #19
I don't get the mentality behind you JE apologists cali May 2012 #21
I really don't care. jp11 May 2012 #22
I don't view it as "seeking comfort" tledford May 2012 #23
The prosecution in this case hasn't done a good job of proving he broke Fed campaign donor laws. Lex May 2012 #26
your post made me want to throw up. i never have that reaction to OPs. you pulled it off seabeyond May 2012 #27
Rielle Hunter's first words to Edwards were "You are so HOT!" Nye Bevan May 2012 #29
Are you joking? The jury will decide if he's a criminal. An indictment was filed, Honeycombe8 May 2012 #30
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