Infidelity, Edwards and McCain

[DogPoundPup]

Frankly, I don't give a flying leap about John Edwards affair. It was a crummy thing to do to his wife but that's their business. There's some case to be made that he shouldn't have been running for president with such a time bomb ticking in his closet but since he dropped out of the race and doesn't hold a public office anymore, it's really immaterial to the future of our country. It's only value in the news cycle is that the tabliod speculations make for good ratings in a slow news week.

However, I see that the latest theme emerging in the coverage is why didn't the elite media take more notice of the story? Even the LAT is saying "what's really significant here is the cone of silence the nation's major newspapers." I would suggest it's because it's not real news, it's glorified gossip, and again has no real impact on any of our lives.

But if they want to paint this sordid story as something significant, then I suggest it's much more relevant that the presumptive Republican candidate John McCain's affair prior to his marriage to his lovely, filthy rich wife Cindy, is much more relevant and that has been virtually ignored? Where's the outrage on that?

McCain callously left his first wife after she suffered a terrible car accident that left her overweight and four inches shorter from two dozen operations. Carol McCain, (pictured above), was loyal to John, waiting for him to come home from war. He immediately began catting around with a woman young enough to be his daughter, while he was still living with Carol and their children, and filed for a marriage license to Cindy while he was still married. McCain lied about it to his wife and in his book.

Yet, I've only seen one mention in the US elite media of McCain's sordid affair and he is running for president. You can be sure if Obama had done this, the media elite would have been all over it for months on end. Instead the driveling punditry is obsessing about whether Edwards' affair will hurt Obama. As if he had anything to do with the Edwards private lives.
http://info.detnews.com/redesign/blogs/politicsblog/index.cfm?blogid=12577

[BrklynLiberal]

1. ..and the rumors about his cheating on his current wife.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

2. Yes! What happened to that story? No reporter investigated further after the denials.

One stupid panel on one of the cable "news" networks was opining on whether this story would affect the Democrats or Obama. I don't think even one of them mentioned McCain's history of cheating or the recent story about his affair with a LOBBYIST.

[Hugin]

4. "For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk "

"A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.

When news organizations reported that Mr. McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of the lobbyist’s client, the former campaign associates said, some aides feared for a time that attention would fall on her involvement.

Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship. But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html

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I thought a reply to your post was a good spot for a refresher on this.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

5. Thanks. That was the very last I heard about the story.

Unless I missed it, I am unaware that anyone in the media attempted to get to the truth of that relationship. And, to me, it is not the fact that he may have cheated on his wife that is the problem, it is the fact that he paints himself as such a "moral" man.

[LibDemAlways]

3. McCain has an "R" after his name, so he's exempt from

prying into his private life. That's reserved only for "D's."