John Edwards To Admit Paternity of Ex-Mistress's Child?  

I can't believe how he lied through his teeth. Every time he spoke publicly about this incident he lied some more. It's really none of the public's business, not once he'd dropped out of the campaign, but it kills me that he'd do that to his wife and kids. I'm so sorry about your problems with cancer.
Annie

You're right, some get away with it and others are destroyed and I don't quite understand that. I think it's sad because he had a good message when he was campaigning. Now it's like that's also tainted and it doesn't seem right.
Annie

"Are you as disappointed in Elizabeth for staying with John as you were about Stanford's wife staying with him? Just wondering, Annie."
I have no clue who you're thinking of but it's sure not me! When did I EVER post anything bad about Jenny Sanford? If you recall, I started a discussion praising her.
Annie

I think that the women that stay after an affair are not very smart piasa, and in a way that disappoints me only with that fact that women are educated nowadays, this isn't 1809. I would put my husband out in a minute if he cheated.

"I think we've reached a consensus that we all want to throw up when we hear or see him! They just said on the news that Jenny has released a statement saying she's "willing to forgive him". Why, Jenny, WHY???
Annie" http://www.mylot.com/w/di...

That comment was made by you after your post praising her. And hey, I had to go back over a hundred pages to find that! I do think that I remember hearing on the news somewhere that Jenny has taken the boys and moved to her parents but she plans on "visiting" Mark often or some such baloney.

Anyway, I'm just waiting to hear if the hush money Edwards gave Hunter was illegal. That would be the icing on the cake.

I'd forgotten about that off-handed remark...lol! I didn't mean it in a bad way towards her at all. I've always defended spouses who have been in these kinds of situations. The only times I've said anything negative about them have been when they've stood by their cheating husbands' sides as they confess their sins and apologize to the world and then it's not meant as a put-down but to say I'd sure never do that. For the record, I AM glad Jenny's left him now.

Annie

From where I sit she needs to kick him to the curb, that's for sure, but I never judge a spouse for doing whatever they choose in these situations. My heart aches for her, that much I know for sure. If she's telling the truth and he really was a good husband for over 30 years, maybe she can forgive him. I don't know how, but I guess that's something only Elizabeth knows for sure, right?
Annie

I think that despite what has happened she needs to stay with him. At least for the kids because they might very well lose their mother. I'm not sure what the situation is concerning her cancer at the moment. She is in a vulnerable position. And they have a deep bond together having been married all those years and having gone through so much. I don't have anything negative to say about Elizabeth staying with John in this situation. If she were well I would probably have a different opinion.

Her illness certainly does have a huge bearing on how she deals with this situation. From what I've heard her say herself the cancer is incurable and it will eventually kill her. It could be in a year or it could be 10 years, they just don't know, but she's doing well right now. With two young kids like theirs are it would be terrible for her to take them and leave only for them to possibly have to be uprooted again if and when her condition worsens.
Annie

That is true about her children, for the younger ones, it would be best for them to stay together, because it must be very stressful for them already and they are 9 and 11 I think, that's an age where they understand things but not fully, so it would be very confusing for them. If she doesn't kick him to the curb, then she needs to say "hey buddy, im only staying with you for the kids, I'm the mother of your children, and your wife for their sake, but that's it, anything else you lost". The children are also a reason why I really get pissed off at John Edwards, one daughter is already grown up, if my father cheated on my mom while she had cancer, and fathered a child with his mistress, I would resent him and be so furious with him, I don't know if I would be able to forgive him...it must be so hard for the children but it is probably hardest for the oldest daughter because she should understand and be aware of everything. Elizabeth and John had another son who died in 1996, and the oldest daughter was about 14 when it happened, so she went through that with them.

I guess my point is that these kids have not been thought of at all by John Edwards because he did what he did, so if Elizabeth stays with him, he needs to step up and be a thoughtful father and appreciate his children with Elizabeth. He also needs to step up and be a father to this new child. One thing is for sure, John Edwards is not a good role model for fathers

I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic, but John Edwards is a democrat

ROFLMAO... Suspenseful, did you immediately assume Edwards is a Republican because I posted this discussion or because you automatically associate cheating husbands with Republicans now? I love how you seemed ready to forgive him; Ill bet that's changed now that you know he's a Democrat!
Annie

First of all it wasn't The Globe it was The National Enquirer. They're both tabloids which rarely get anything right but it was the Enquirer that broke the story of the affair. You've repeated made the claim that "John Edwards run on a platform of Christian family values" and I've repeated said that wasn't the case. He ran on a platform of the "two Americas", remember? All the networks I've seen have reported this story recently since the Grand Jury investigation.

I must say I'm amazed at you lack of compassion for Elizabeth Edwards, a woman who is suffering from cancer and has two small children of her own to care for. I guess YOULL never be able to enter politics and run on a "Christian values platform", will you...lol?
Annie

I agree with Annie, Rose....first of all, women whose husbands cheat on them are in a "damned if I do, damned if I don't" position...so many would praise them if they left, so many would chastise and look down upon them if they do, so they can't really win. I want her to leave Edwards, he doesn't deserve, but I know that I am in no high and mighty position to judge, and neither is anyone else. Your post is extremely cynical, did you ever stop and think that maybe the real reason she stayed was for her children? This is a personal question, but have you ever had your husband have an affair on you? If not, then I don't think that you can really judge her or even remotely understand her position, I haven't and so I know that I cannot understand what she is, or was going through. I can speculate, I can as a woman, show support and kindness to her, but I can't say why she did what she did, how can you be so quick to assume that you know?

I agree, this sort of thing should be between a husband and wife. The problem with Edwards is he may have used campaign funds to pay his mistress to keep silent. Anyway, I think the reason the mainstream media hadn't broken the story of the Edwards affair or the Sanford affair until they had not choice is because at least some of them must feel as we do. Sanford went missing and Edwards' girlfriend had a baby, both of which caused some "complications".
Annie

Well I have to say that I sort of disagree. I think that what they do in their personal lives does have something to say about their character and that is important to me. If they cheat and play loose with their marriages then what else are they doing in their political lives that's shady?

And obvioulsy it matters to quite a few Democrats as I constantly heard during the election that McCain wasn't suitable for the presidency because of his relationship with Cindy before his divorce from his first wife. But at least that marriage was and had been over (although not legally) and he did end up marrying Cindy.

I think the reason a few people brought up McCain's marital history was due to the fact that his first wife had waited for him while he was a POW and had been in a horrible accident while he was gone which left her very disabled. I heard he had claimed they'd been separated when he started seeing Cindy but that that hadn't been the case. I can't speak for anyone else but I know MY only reason for ever having mentioned that part of McCain's past was because of the perceived double standard where the right was still talking about Bill Clinton's past problems but they never brought up "their own" unfaithful husbands such as McCain, New Gingrich and Rudy and how in all those cases they'd left the previous wife for the "other woman".
Annie

I know, it is sad. You're so right, he kept adding lie upon lie. He should have justt come clean from the beginning when he made that appearance on Nightline (?) last year but he chose not to.
Annie

Annie,
Sorry about my mix up it was the Nation Enquirer that investigated John Edward's love affair for two year's and then broke the story in the fall of 2008.
It is the Globe investigateing Barack Obama's sexual affair with Larry Sinclair and his new body guard Reggie Love.
Far as Mrs Edwards the reason why I feel as I do she knew all that time her old man was in bed with Ms Hunter she has not earned respect from me.
Far as her staying with her cheating husband I'm sure this was not the first time and may not be the last time her husband has cheated on her just this time he got caught by the National Enquirer newspaper with his pants down.
I do not have respect for a women that knows her husband is a cheat and liar and possible a thief and she backs him up running for the highest office in our country that once had some decency and respect.
This is my personal opinion and I should not be personally attacked for my opinion by any one in my opinion...ROSE

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Here's something we can completely agree on. I couldn't possibly have said it better myself.
Annie