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sappstuf
5/25/2011, 09:15 AM
The United States Department of Justice has green-lighted the prosecution of former presidential candidate John Edwards for alleged violations of campaign laws while he tried to cover up an extra-marital affair, ABC News has learned.

A source close to the case said Edwards is aware that the government intends to seek an indictment and that the former senator from North Carolina is now considering his limited options. He could accept a plea bargain with prosecutors or face a potentially costly trial.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/john-edwards-prosecuted-alleged-campaign-law-violations-tied/story?id=13680079

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jk the sooner fan
5/25/2011, 09:16 AM
could not happen to a nicer democrat.....errrr "guy"

The Profit
5/25/2011, 09:16 AM
Good news. He is an absolute cad of a human being. Any man, who would screw around on a dying wife, should have his nutz removed.

sappstuf
5/25/2011, 09:23 AM
Good news. He is an absolute cad of a human being. Any man, who would screw around on a dying wife, should have his nutz removed.

And you call the Republican field in 2012 weak.. He was the third best Dem candidate in 2008. ;)

The Profit
5/25/2011, 09:29 AM
And you call the Republican field in 2012 weak.. He was the third best Dem candidate in 2008. ;)



Here is the difference. When Edwards was the third best candidate, no one knew he was screwing around while his wife was suffering from cancer. Once the news was out, he was finished. Gingrich, on the other hand, screwed around on two wives, who were ill at the time, yet he is a gop candidate for president.

JohnnyMack
5/25/2011, 09:29 AM
could not happen to a nicer democrat.....errrr "guy"

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:P

sappstuf
5/25/2011, 09:43 AM
Here is the difference. When Edwards was the third best candidate, no one knew he was screwing around while his wife was suffering from cancer. Once the news was out, he was finished. Gingrich, on the other hand, screwed around on two wives, who were ill at the time, yet he is a gop candidate for president.

Oh they knew.. They, and the press just covered up for him.

Gingrich might be a candidate, but not in the top three, ever.. He might be at 5 right now and many strong candidates have declined so far or he would be even further down. and will only slide down further if a couple of big names come in.

The Profit
5/25/2011, 09:45 AM
Oh they knew.. They, and the press just covered up for him.

Gingrich might be a candidate, but not in the top three, ever.. He might be at 5 right now and many strong candidates have declined so far or he would be even further down. and will only slide down further if a couple of big names come in.





Show me the proof that they knew. Every journalist today wants to get the big scoop. If someone knew, they wouldn't have kept quiet. Today's media just doesn't work that way. Its not like the Kennedy days. If these guys screw around, they are going to get caught.

jk the sooner fan
5/25/2011, 09:47 AM
Here is the difference. When Edwards was the third best candidate, no one knew he was screwing around while his wife was suffering from cancer. Once the news was out, he was finished. Gingrich, on the other hand, screwed around on two wives, who were ill at the time, yet he is a gop candidate for president.

actually you're wrong here - Edward's staff knew exactly what he was up to -and have documented that they all agreed on a plan to "out him' IF he won the nomination

thats quite the moral line in the sand there if you ask me - but Edward's activities were not unknown......as for Newt - he's not made it thru a single primary yet, so your characterization of his candidacy, when compared to where Edwards was (a clear and viable candidate for VPOTUS at the very least) is a joke

Sooner_Tuf
5/25/2011, 09:48 AM
People like to ****. The news here is the DOJ is going to prosecute Edwards for violating campaign finance laws.

Monogamy = The Medal of Honor for the Ugly.

The Profit
5/25/2011, 09:52 AM
actually you're wrong here - Edward's staff knew exactly what he was up to -and have documented that they all agreed on a plan to "out him' IF he won the nomination

thats quite the moral line in the sand there if you ask me - but Edward's activities were not unknown......as for Newt - he's not made it thru a single primary yet, so your characterization of his candidacy, when compared to where Edwards was (a clear and viable candidate for VPOTUS at the very least) is a joke




I never said that his staff didn't know. I said that the media did not know. I think we would all agree that Edwards is dead politically. You won't see him hired by a network to give political analysis. You won't see him running for future office, etc. Gingrich, on the other hand, despite his marital transgressions and extreme hypocritical actions, was given a job by Fox News. He was also supported by large political contributions to get into the 2012 presidential race. The joke is on you.

jk the sooner fan
5/25/2011, 09:53 AM
you think an entire staff knew and not one had a leak to the media?

remember who broke this story - the national enquirer - they had been following him for quite some time

The Profit
5/25/2011, 09:56 AM
you think an entire staff knew and not one had a leak to the media?

remember who broke this story - the national enquirer - they had been following him for quite some time




Again, show me the proof that the media knew about the affair and sat on it. Certainly, if that is true, some right winged wacko rag would have printed it. Show me the proof. Simple as that.

JohnnyMack
5/25/2011, 09:57 AM
Newt Gingrich, John Edwards and Arnold Schwarzenegger are all scumbags.

The end.

The Profit
5/25/2011, 09:58 AM
Newt Gingrich, John Edwards and Arnold Schwarzenegger are all scumbags.

The end.




Can't argue with that, JohnnyMack

sappstuf
5/25/2011, 10:00 AM
Show me the proof that they knew. Every journalist today wants to get the big scoop. If someone knew, they wouldn't have kept quiet. Today's media just doesn't work that way. Its not like the Kennedy days. If these guys screw around, they are going to get caught.


When former presidential candidate John Edwards finally admitted to having an extramarital affair this weekend he faced an outpouring of recrimination. But a lot of ire has now been aimed at the mainstream media in America, which did not report on the story even as it became a national talking point on the internet and late-night television.

That blanket of silence was finally lifted after Edwards, a former senator who has run twice for the Democratic presidential nomination, gave a television interview to ABC News in which he detailed his romantic relationship with former campaign worker Rielle Hunter, which he said occurred in 2006.

The news was like a dam breaking in the mainstream media. Suddenly Edwards' affair became a front-page story. For many in the new media world of blogging, however, the coverage is too little, too late.

'There will be ramifications from this incident on the blogging community and also on the mainstream media,' wrote Steve Clemons, a blogger at the Huffington Post, an online newspaper which has led reporting of the affair.

The fact remains that the Edwards story was ignored for almost nine months by the vast majority of American newspapers, radio and TV news organisations despite detailed accounts of the scandal in the National Enquirer and widespread coverage on the internet.

The scandal was also covered by many foreign newspapers, leading to the bizarre situation in which many Americans were reading detailed accounts of the allegations long before their mainstream media news organisations were reporting on it.

Edwards' affair with Hunter was even lampooned by talk show hosts Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien while network news had still not mentioned it.

Many news organisations maintain that they remained silent because Edwards had officially denied the story.

The former senator had ridiculed the Enquirer reports as malicious tabloid gossip. There is also a sense that some news editors decided it would be distasteful to run the story out of respect for Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, who is suffering from terminal cancer.

However, some critics claim that the media perhaps too easily accepted the denial of a politician instead of conducting diligent journalism. The Enquirer itself caught Edwards in a late-night meeting with Hunter at a Beverly Hills hotel. Indeed, the story has been a huge coup for the much-maligned supermarket tabloid.

'It's good to see public acknowledgment that our story was accurate all along,' National Enquirer editor David Perel told the Los Angeles Times

That has largely proved to be the case, though some mysteries still remain. For instance, the Enquirer has consistently claimed that Edwards fathered a child with Hunter.

Edwards denies that he is the father of her daughter and insists that the affair ended in 2006. He says he only met Hunter later on to discuss how to keep their relationship quiet. In his interview, Edwards admitted to ABC that he had lied when he was first asked about the affair, but he continued to attack the Enquirer

'I did not want the public to know what I had done. Fair and simple. And there's also a lot of these, you know, supermarket tabloid allegations are just lies, they're complete lies,' Edwards said.

He later denied that he was the man shown in recent Enquirer photographs holding a baby in a room the tabloid said was the Beverly Hills hotel where he met Hunter. 'I don't know anything about that photograph. I don't know who that baby is,' he said.

Whatever the details of the affair, one thing seems certain: Edwards' political career has taken a hammering from which it may not recover. His name recently dropped off the list of usual suspects for Barack Obama's vice-presidential running mate, but he had been expected to have a prominent role at the upcoming Denver Democratic convention.

He was also thought to be in line for a job in an Obama cabinet should the Democrat win the November election. That looks unlikely now.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/10/usa.pressandpublishing.

The only way they didn't know is that they were willfully ignorant. It had to be broken by the National Enquirer that caught Edwards minutes away from having his pants down. Sorta like when Drudge broke the Lewinsky scandal because Newsweek sat on it when they knew.

Sooner_Tuf
5/25/2011, 10:03 AM
Newt is still gets attention because he is an intelligent guy. Edwards does not because he's not.

jk the sooner fan
5/25/2011, 10:07 AM
newt gets some attention because as time passes, we forgive and forget...i would suspect that if Edwards wife hadnt died of cancer, he'd get his due at some point - but his rope is much shorter because he denied his own child (as did Arnold - for 10 years????)

Regardless - Newt is NOT electable - so while he may have grand delusions about his candidacy (which he's entitled) - that doesnt mean the voting public has the same delusion

pphilfran
5/25/2011, 10:08 AM
Newt is a pig...

KantoSooner
5/25/2011, 10:55 AM
remember who broke this story - the national enquirer - they had been following him for quite some time

"Best damn investigative reporting in the solar system." - Tommy Lee Jones

soonercruiser
5/25/2011, 02:31 PM
The New Black Panthers should feel a little more comfy; with attention taken away from them.
:rolleyes: