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John Edwards Scandal: Love Child’s Name, Sex Revealed; Hush Money Paid

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(Source) A new Rasmussen Reports national survey finds that 56% have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, including 21% who view him Very favorably. He slightly edges Senator Hillary Clinton, who is viewed at least somewhat favorably by 51%, with 27% characterizing their view of her as Very Favorable.

Could this be why the liberal media is ignoring the Edwards “Ho Gate, Baby Daddy Drama, cheat on yo cancer stricken wife” scandal.

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Damm that bitch looks jacked up!!

Rush mentioned this on the show today, checked the mainstream news sources and nothing. This is from Wonkette, most of the other Google links go back to this Wonkette piece.  National Enquirer Story Link

Oh man, weren’t we done with this guy? When did everybody know he had affairs and mistresses? We knew in October — if by “knew” you mean we posted some crap that the National Enquirer “reported” and the Huffington Post repeated. But now, suddenly, it seems there might be a pretty good prime-time speech slot open on probably Tuesday at the Democratic Convention, because John-John’s got (an alleged) love child!

The important question is not “Why is John Edwards cheating on his wife who had cancer?” We know that answer: He’s a Democratic politician. They have affairs with ladies. The important question is “Why do we have to hear about this again now?”

The answer is “Because a tabloid caught him with the mistress and the baby at a hotel!” A love child? Jesus! Bill Clinton must feel a million years old tonight. Joe Klein, too.

Details, according to the National Enquirer: Edwards was in L.A. on Monday, to do some homelessness event with cheating LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Then Edwards was spotted that night, sneaking into the Beverly Hilton, supposedly where his mistress had two rooms rented. Then he tried to sneak out, at 2:40 a.m. Tuesday morning. And the tabloid reporters chased him into a restroom, and the security chased off the tabloid reporters, the end?

Others posting Wake Up America link via Stop the ACLU, Pajamas Media

Death by 1000 Papercuts has LOTS of links on this subject 

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From Sweetness & Light

Monty Johnson sells land for $1.6 million and moves to S.C.

By Don Carrington

CHAPEL HILL — Win or lose in the presidential campaign of 2008, John Edwards will have one thing to cheer about: That pesky Chapel Hill neighbor that his wife complained about last spring will be gone.

Last April, Elizabeth Edwards made national news when she criticized the family’s across-the-road neighbor, Monty Johnson, for pulling a gun on trespassers and for not maintaining his “slummy” property.

“I don’t want my kids anywhere near some guy who when he doesn’t like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out,” she said at the time. “It scares the business out of me.”

Johnson, however, has sold his 42 acres, which contain occupied mobile homes and deteriorating buildings located directly across the road from the Edwards 100-acre estate just outside Chapel Hill. Johnson and his family have moved to South Carolina…

Johnson, a 56-year old retired landscaper, said the land had been in his family since before the Great Depression. Johnson lived on the property and earned extra income from leasing the 12 mobile homes and an auto repair shop located on the property.

He received national media attention in April 2007 after Elizabeth Edwards referred to him as a “rabid, rabid Republican,” and called his property “slummy.” Johnson said he was already planning a move when Edwards made her comments. He said real estate taxes were getting too high in Orange County and he anticipated problems living across the street from the Edwardses.

Johnson previously had the property listed with a traditional real estate broker and was asking $1.2 million. He said Friday in an interview at his home near Florence, S.C., that he would have taken $1 million for it.

The only offer he received, he said, was for a 600-foot strip of the land along the road across from the Edwards’ driveway. That offer came through another real estate agent who would not identify the prospective buyer.

Johnson said he was not interested in selling only a portion of the land. He said he was immediately suspicious that the unnamed buyer might be Edwards, but said he has found no evidence to confirm that…

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More idiot John Edwards stuff…

From Sister Toldjah - Going for broke: John Edwards calls for rapid withdrawal from Iraq

With one day left before the Iowa caucuses, His Royal Phoniness, currently on a 36 hour ‘marathon tour’ of Iowa (lucky Iowans!), is making a desperate last pitch to Iowa Democrats for their vote by unveiling a ‘new and improved’ Iraq withdrawal plan that would quickly pull out most US troops who are training Iraqi forces, as part of an overall strategy of withdrawing most troops within ten months of his (hoped for) election as president.

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Will another Democrat be screwed allowing his dick to run his life?

Blog Watch on this:

Doug Ross and Death by 1000 Papercuts

Ace of Spades

From Right Wing News  - What the tabloid’s readers, in politics and out, may not know is that a key owner of the Enquirer is a prominent New York investment banker and one of Hillary Clinton’s key backers, Roger Altman. Altman was an official in the first Clinton administration, and his name is often mentioned as a possible Clinton Treasury Secretary.

The investment boutique which Altman founded and chairs, Evercore Partners, bought a controlling stake in American Media, which publishes the Enquirer, in 1999, which it still holds with a partner. Evercore’s president, Austin Beutner, sits on American Media’s Board of Directors, according to Evercore’s website.

 MoJoBlog, Marc Ambinder, Outside The Beltway,  Tim Worstall Tabloid Edition, The Daily Dish, THE REACTION,  Riehl World View, Vox Popoli and Fausta’s blog

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Found on the Huffington Post from September 2007: Edwards Mystery: Innocuous Videos Suddenly Shrouded In Secrecy

In the summer of 2006, former North Carolina Senator John Edwards commissioned a series of web-based documentary shorts for his pre-announcement leadership PAC, the One America Committee. Within political circles, the videos were regarded as innovative, having successfully painted Edwards in a sympathetic, down-to-earth light.Now, however, nearly all traces of the webisodes - as they became known - are gone. Links to them on the Internet no longer work. The Edwards campaign won’t release the videos, and the production company behind the films is citing confidentiality agreements in refusing to talk.

This closed-off approach naturally aroused my interest. In the world of politics, rare is the candidate who passes on a chance for publicity. The campaign’s explanation for stonewalling, moreover, struck me as dubious and at times evasive.

I had come to the Edwards’ videos in a haphazard way: the byproduct of a story I was writing on new technology and politics. The webisodes were not, in any regard, a secret. Edwards’ “behind the scenes” portrait had earned rave reviews in the blogosphere and even a small feature in Newsweek. But nothing had been written about the films since Edwards announced his presidential aspirations, and I wanted to know how the footage would play on the campaign trail.

What followed was a lesson in the profound irritations of political reporting. A call to Edwards’ press shop led to an email to his One America Committee representative, which led, in turn, to a mind-bending exchange about campaign finance law, which culminated in a separate conversation with Edwards’ deputy campaign manager Jonathan Prince. Each time I was told that the One America Committee could not use “material that could be considered promoting the presidential campaign,” and that Edwards’ camp “no longer had access to most of the content.”

Thwarted, I tried my hand with the movie’s producers. A search for the filmmaker, Rielle Hunter, proved that Google does, in fact, have its limitations. No hits. The same held true with Facebook and Myspace - a bizarre level of anonymity for someone in the movie business.

The production company responsible for the webisodes, Midline Groove Productions, had a minimalist website. Through it, however, I was able to email Mimi Hockman, Rielle Hunter’s partner, to ask if I could screen the tapes. She directed me to a Business Week website where the last remaining webisode link still functioned. But beyond that, I was rebuffed. Once again, the reasons seemed strangely artificial.

“Our contract expired last year,” Hockman emailed, “and the Edwards camp owns all of the webisodes and footage.”

(Hmmm…. The campaign had said it couldn’t access the footage.) Could we at least talk off the record about the filming process?

“Nope,” she wrote. “Not a chance.”

My reportorial curiosity thoroughly piqued, I decided to dig further.

Who is Rielle Hunter? The Newsweek item said Edwards met the aspiring actress and filmmaker in a New York City bar. A call to the Screen Actors Guild elicited the following exchange:

Screen Actors Guild: “This performer chooses not to list her contact information in the membership database.”

HuffPost: “So if I wanted to contact her about her work with web video?”

SAG: “Well, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s up to the performer to choose whether they are listed or not.”

A check of the movie database IMDB.com listed her as a director and actor in the short Billy Bob and Them. And an Internet write up of a 2005 interview she apparently gave to Breathe Magazine described her as a “formerly hard-partying girl who claims that she found enlightenment.”

How much did the videos cost? According to campaign finance reports, the One America Committee made four payments of $12,500 and two of $25,000, for a total of $100,000 to Midline Groove Productions in the second half of 2006.

If you don’t have shit else to do check this out: Scrubbed: Edwards Filmmaker’s Deleted Website Raises Questions or

 John Edwards’s Docudrama: The Anatomy of Innuendo

Here is a bit of the post: I know y’all have heard “where there’s smoke….” Hmmm Juicy!

October 10, 2007. The National Enquirer reports that Edwards is having an affair with a mystery woman who had traveled with the campaign and met the candidate at a bar. An Edwards rep calls the allegations “false, absolute nonsense.”

• October 10, 2007. That same day, Stein posts a follow-up to his original Huffington Post piece. He questions why Rielle Hunter’s production company was paid upwards of $100,000 for her work, and points out that she used to be a party girl who dated writer Jay McInerney in the eighties and inspired the main character in his book Story of My Life.*

• October 10, 2007. Ann Coulter, late in the day, mentions the Enquirer story on Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC talk show. Daily Kos once again picks up on it and lists the reasons why Stein and the Huffington Post are irresponsible journalists for digging into it.

• October 11, 2007. Mickey Kaus on Slate writes a post headlined “Emerging Edwards Scandal?” in which he notes the previous coverage, mulls what would happen to Edwards’s campaign if the story were true, especially since he’s been “tacitly and effectively used Elizabeth and her struggle” with cancer (the struggle with cancer no doubt being a large part of why the “mainstream media seems to be strenuously trying to not report it”), and wonders who might benefit. Obama?

• October 11, 2007. Jezebel.com doesn’t mince words, with a headline that screams, “Is John Edwards Cheating on His Cancer-Stricken Wife?” “Who the fuck sleeps with a married man whose wife has terminal cancer and THE ENTIRE WORLD FUCKING KNOWS ABOUT IT?”

• October 11, 2007. Washington, D.C., gossip blog Wonkette.com picks up on the Enquirer story, too. After Ann Coulter (who once called John Edwards a gay slur) mentions it, they query: “But, um, Ann? Why would Edwards have a lady-affair when he’s a ‘faggot’?”

Watch mystery video - You Tube Link - http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MissingVideos

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From Moonbattery

As you may have heard, John Edwards has been trying to out-pander Shrillary by promising a college education to all Americans, presumably even those of us who have no use for one and do not belong in college.

Stealing money from the productive to pay able-bodied adults to sit through lectures about queer theory and womyn’s studies will — according to the Breck Girl — alleviate poverty.

Here’s something almost as funny — while listing some of the extravagant freebies he plans to finance by looting “the rich,” the zillionaire trial lawyer proclaimed:

There are no free meals.

In the upside-down, inside-out, topsy-turvy world of moonbattery, a “free meal” is when the government lets you keep what you earned. The goodies he’s promising — college education for everyone, federally financed universal pre-kindergarten, matching savings accounts for low-income voters, a million new housing vouchers, etc., etc., ad nauseam — aren’t free meals but entitlements, because they are coercively paid for by someone else.

 

John Edwards’ house, the largest in his county.

Also check out: Moonbats Attempt to Steal the Word “Moonbat”

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Watch the Video

Read the story behind it, on Sister Toldjah

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Article Link

Edwards: ‘Pretty Soon We’re Not Going to Have a Young African-American Male Population in America.’

Asked about what he could do about “inner-city kids partaking in violence” at the MTV/MySpace Forum yesterday, Democratic candidate John Edwards offered an apocalyptic prediction for young black males:

“We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”

Hyperbole much? Despite popular misperception and those who find it a convenient talking point to illustrate inescapable racism, there are more young African-American men in college than in prison. In 2005, according to the Census Bureau, there were 864,000 black men in college. According to Justice Department statistics, there were 802,000 in federal and state prisons and jails; between the ages of 18 and 24, however, black men in college outnumber those incarcerated by 4 to 1.

UPDATE: Some readers are finding the numbers above confusing. The first set of numbers (comparing 864,000 to 802,000) refers to all black men of all ages. The 4 to 1 ratio is among black men between the ages of 18 to 24. In other words, a large percentage of that 802,000 are black men above the age of 24.

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I was so excited to receive this response from an actual John Edwards supporter.
This was in response to my post about Johnny saying we should give up our SUV’s.
Scotty obviously ignores the hypocritical message this sends to “sensible” people.

Edwards desperate to get headlines makes ridiculous statements in order to grab headlines like: EDWARDS PLAN WOULD FORCE DOCTOR VISITS…
It doesn’t matter reality will set in soon and then he and his loudmouth wife can go back to settling into their 28,200 sq ft home.

I really cant figure out what edwards being a rich gluttonous pretty boy has to do with the fact that he is generally right about sacrificing some of our more wasteful extravagances that we have come to view as god given rights. We should give up our SUV’s unless they are really necessary, and towing your fucking boat does not qualify, nor does being some rich housewife using the H2 as a fucking grocery getter and/or fashion statement. You are obviously afraid of the painful truth that is right in front of you, yet you are blind. If you have children I am truly sorry for you.

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Links from Sister Toldjah….and good music video choice too!

Gateway Pundit and Stop The ACLU both have the latest details on yet another shady character involved in donating lots of money to Hillary Clinton. His name is Abdul Rehman Jinnah, and he was also wanted by law enforcement. Just keep scrolling at both places.

Malkin also has: Hillary loves fugitive moneymen Plus: Norman Hsu speaks! 

Ooooo I just love a feeding frenzy, this is frankly why I right wing bloggers are far more interesting. Left wing bloggers are too much into clichés and post ranting emotion type I hate Bush and Republicans crap, while right wing bloggers dig, and check and dig further.
Hillary and the MSM are going to have to address these “smoking guns” soon.
I have been scanning the left blog world and they are not saying shit about this.
Craig is the tantalizing blog fruit of the day still.

Sister Toldjah also has another post (in Iowa, Silky Phoney is actually ahead of Hillary and Barack:)
I think John Edwards is poised to take advantage of Mrs. Bill’s corrupt tendencies, more dirt is on the way I bet. Edwards is just happy as a clam over the past days news.
  
Sorry Hussein backers, I’ve said this from day one about the Magic Negro, I know you don’t like to hear it and it’s politically incorrect but Barrack had NO shot at getting the Democratic nomination. Even if Mrs. Bill were to drop dead today, he has no chance.
Why, you ask… well any regular reader to the Poop already knows the answer.

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, yesterday he thinks Americans are willing to sacrifice.

Edwards says Americans should be asked to drive more fuel efficient vehicles. He says he would ask them to give up SUVs.

Hey Johnny, you shave your fucken head and I’ll be more concerned about saving energy.
I swear the more this highbrow redneck talks the more I hate him.
He and Ron Paul are running neck and neck in the village idiot category.

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Breaking news: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has finally heeded the will of people like you—and resigned.

You spoke out week after week, month after month—and now, the man who oversaw a political purge of U.S. Attorneys at the Justice Department, who approved torture techniques at Guantanamo Bay and who approved illegal spying on Americans has stepped down.

This is a victory for all of us—your calls for change, your energy and your passion helped make this happen.

But as pleased as we are to see Gonzales go, the fight is far from over. While Bush has named a temporary replacement, reports are coming in that he may try to permanently replace Gonzales with another crony from his administration—someone like Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

That’s right—Bush may actually replace the man who brought us a political purge of U.S. Attorneys and illegal spying on Americans with the man who brought us the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
John Edwards knows America deserves better than crony out, crony in—and if Bush tries to replace one crony with another, John will lead the fight against their nomination just like he led the calls for Gonzales to resign more than five months ago.

We need your support in this fight—just like we needed your support in the fight against Gonzales. Support the campaign that is saying “no” to crony out, crony in—make a donation today.

John knows that this ongoing debacle is only one example of how Washington is rigged for well-connected D.C. insiders and against everyone else.

We need big change to fix the way Washington D.C. works—and we won’t create that kind of change through compromise and triangulation.

Earlier this summer, we asked you to sign a petition calling on Gonzales to resign—and over 45,000 of you responded.

Now, we need your support again. Gonzales is out—but another crony may be on their way in. Help John lead the fight against crony out, crony in at the Justice Department—

make a contribution today!

Love to all –Joe Trippi
  Senior Advisor, John Edwards for President

I don’t know why they just don’t put the contrubution line right up front.

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Found on Wizbang Politics

RIP, John Edwards’ political ambitions, respectfully compiled by Rich Lowry at NRO:

When he hit other candidates for taking donations from Rupert Murdoch’s media holdings, wasn’t it inevitable that it would turn out he had taken $800,000 from Murdoch’s HarperCollins for a coffee-table book?

Or when he attacked subprime lenders for foreclosing on victims of Hurricane Katrina, he would have $16 million — half of his net worth — invested in Fortress while it was foreclosing on a couple dozen homes in New Orleans?

Most of us uphold ideals that we can’t meet, but liberal populism shouldn’t be such an impossible standard. The late Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone, a liberal populist to his core, never had such embarrassments. The former North Carolina senator is experiencing a kind of toxic shock from his synthetic political persona.

Read full article at link above, you will get a good laugh at Edwards bumbling campaigns expense

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From Michelle Malkin

Welcome to John Edwards’ America, a land where Democrat presidential candidates demonize the businesses that made them rich. Via the WSJ today, a fresh look at silky hypocrisy. Headline: “Edwards, Foreclosure Critic, Has Investing Tie to Subprime Lenders:”

As a presidential candidate, Democrat John Edwards has regularly attacked subprime lenders, particularly those that have filed foreclosure suits against victims of Hurricane Katrina. But as an investor, Mr. Edwards has ties to lenders foreclosing on Katrina victims.The Wall Street Journal has identified 34 New Orleans homes whose owners have faced foreclosure suits from subprime-lending units of Fortress Investment Group LLC. Mr. Edwards has about $16 million invested in Fortress funds, according to a campaign aide who confirmed a more general Federal Election Commission report. Mr. Edwards worked for Fortress, a publicly held private-equity fund, from late 2005 through 2006.

Asked about the matter, Mr. Edwards yesterday pledged that he would personally provide financial assistance to New Orleanians who are facing foreclosure by Fortress-affiliated businesses or have lost their homes already. “I intend to help these people,” the former North Carolina senator said.

He also promised to cleanse his portfolio of any investments that may be profiting from their losses. “I am going to divest” from any Fortress funds that have a stake in the subprime lenders that filed the foreclosures, he said in a telephone interview. “I will not have my family’s money invested in these firms.”

Check out the rest here

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From Moonbattery

Remember when it came to light that despite killing a Democrat debate cosponsored by the leftist Congressional Black Caucus because it was to be hosted by Fox News, John Edwards had taken a fat advance from its parent company News Corp.? Now we learn more:

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards recently defended taking a lucrative book contract from a publisher controlled by Rupert Murdoch — whose News Corp. empire Edwards has sharply criticized — by insisting that “every dime” of his $500,000 advance went to charity.

Left unmentioned by Edwards, however, was that Murdoch’s HarperCollins paid portions of a $300,000 expense budget for the book to Edwards’s daughter and to a senior political aide, Jonathan Prince.
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Michelle Malkin has more: John Edwards’ definition of “charity:” Murdoch book money went to…his daughter and political aide

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I don’t get it, just who is supporting this dude and are people actually STILL donating to his campaign?

Yesterday, Karl Rove—the man George Bush called “the Architect” of his presidency—resigned.

When John heard the news, he had three words to say: “Goodbye, good riddance.”

But John also knows that there’s little time for celebration. Because while the Architect is leaving, the radical right-wing takeover of the government he helped engineer still stands—and it is up to us to take it down.

In the White House that Rove built, the government is rigged against regular people. Special interests and lobbyists for big corporations write the laws, the rich and well-connected prosper—and everyone else is forgotten.

We need change. We need a leader who will stand up to the special interests—who won’t be bought and sold by their lobbyists. John doesn’t take money from federal lobbyists or political action committees—he never has, and he never will.

Today, John is traveling across Iowa on a bus, talking to regular people about the real problems they face. The bus is fueled by B20 biodiesel, a cleaner fuel—and John’s campaign is fueled by clean money from people like you.

Help us keep our campaign fueled by clean money. Thousands of people have already stood up to fuel our campaign for change. Will you join them by making a contribution today—and help us reach our goal of raising $100,000 by Sunday?

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By BRAD WARTHEN - Editorial Page Editor - The State dot com - South Carolina

MONTHS ago, I observed on my blog that I think John Edwards is a phony — a make-believe Man of The People.

It’s not so much that he’s lying when he says he wants to help One America — the Deserving Poor, whom he wants to vote for him — get what it has coming to it from the Other America (that of the Really Rich, to which he disarmingly admits he belongs). I think he believes it. But I don’t, and here’s why:

Strike One: Sept. 16, 2003. The candidate was supposed to appear on a makeshift stage on Greene Street in front of the Russell House.

He was supposed to arrive at 4 p.m., but it was past 5 before he showed. When his appearance was imminent, his wife appeared on the stage and built expectation in a manner I found appealing and sincere. Then I saw Mr. Edwards step to an offstage position just behind the bleachers to my left. None of the folks in the “good” seats could see him.

His face was impassive, slack, bored: Another crowd, another show. Nothing wrong with that — just a professional at work.

But then, I saw the thing that stuck with me: As his introduction reached its climax, he straightened, and turned on a thousand-watt smile as easily and artificially as flipping a switch. He assumed the look of a man who had just, quite unexpectedly, run into a long-lost best friend. He stepped into view of the crowd at large, and worked his way, Bill Clinton-like, from the back of the crowd toward the stage — a man of the people, coming out from among the people — shaking hands with the humble, grateful enthusiasm of a poor soul who had just won the Irish Sweepstakes.

It was so well done, but so obviously a thing of art, that I was taken aback despite three decades of seeing politicians at work.

Not enough for you? OK.

Strike Two: Jan. 23, 2004. Seeking our support in the primary he would win 11 days later, he came to an interview with The State’s editorial board.

He was all ersatz-cracker bonhomie, beginning by swinging his salt-encrusted left snowboot onto the polished boardroom table, booming, “How do y’all like my boots?” He had not, it seemed, had time to change footwear since leaving New Hampshire.

The interview proceeded according to script, a lot of aw-shucking, smiling, showing of genuine concern, and warm expressions of determination to close the gap between the Two Americas. Then he left, and I didn’t think much more about it, until a week later.

On the 30th, Howard Dean came in to see us for the second time. Again, I was struck by how personable he was, so unlike his screamer image. I rode down on the elevator with him afterward, along with my administrative assistant and another staffer who was a real Dean fan (but, worse luck for Gov. Dean, not a member of our board). I paused to watch him take his time to greet everyone in our foyer — treating each person who wanted to shake his hand as every bit as important as any editorial board member, if not more so. I remarked upon it.

“Isn’t he a nice man?” said our copy editor (the fan). I agreed. Then came the revelation: “Unlike John Edwards,” observed the administrative assistant. What’s that? It seems that when she alone had met then-Sen. Edwards at the reception desk, she had been struck by the way he utterly ignored the folks in our customer service department and others who had hoped for a handshake or a word from the Great Man. He had saved all his amiability, all his professionally entertaining energy and talent, for the folks upstairs who would have a say in the paper’s endorsement.

At that moment, my impression acquired stony bulwarks of Gothic dimensions.

Strike Three: Sept. 22, 2004. I dropped by a reception held for then-vice-presidential nominee Edwards at the Capital City Club that afternoon. I had stuffed my press credentials into my pocket after arrival so as to mix freely with the high-rollers and hear what they had to say. (They knew who I was, but the stuffy types who want writers to stand like cattle behind barriers did not.) Good thing, too, because there was plenty of time to kill, and there’s no more informative way to slaughter it than with the sort of folks whom candidates want to meet at such receptions.

It was well past the candidate’s alleged time of arrival, but no one seemed to mind. Then a prominent Democrat who lives in a fashionable downtown neighborhood confided we’d be waiting even longer. We all knew the candidate had a more public appearance at Martin Luther King Park before this one, and no one begrudged him such face time with real voters. But this particular insider knew something else: He had bided his own time because he had seen Sen. Edwards go jogging in front of his house, along with his security detail, after the time that the MLK event was to have started.

As reported in The State the next day: “Edwards was running late, and the throng waiting to rally with him at Martin Luther King Jr. Park took notice. They sat for two hours in the sweltering heat inside the community center, a block off Five Points.”

We were cool at the club, drinking, schmoozing, snacking. So he’s late? What are these folks going to do — write checks for the Republicans?

But my impression had been reinforced with steel girders: John Edwards, Man of The People, is a phony. And until I see an awful lot of stunning evidence to the contrary, that impression is not likely to change.

For just $8 you too can end poverty!!
ANOTHER Edwards campaign scam letter…
Edwards: “Gay people are icky!!”
John Edwards Cynically Exploits His Wife’s Cancer To Get Fund Raising Emails
Man of the people my ass! Presidential Candidate John Edwards

Now I knew Edwards was a phony long ago, this particular editorial is not earth shattering, but I’m glad that someone is looking deeper at these candidates and looking past all of the bullshit spin and empty rhetoric.
You can also tell how fucked up a candidate is by the company he keeps.
Look at Joe Trippi, the man behind so many of Edwards scam fund raising letters.
Liberals made this dude into a hero because he stumbled onto a new fundraising frontier “the net” and acted like he came up with the concept all on his own.
Trippi and several others in the Edwards campaign are a bunch of pompous fake ass liberals seeking to scam their way to the White House.
If you choose to surround yourself with these types of individuals, people eventually will see through the fraud and deception.

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Ann Coulter. Michelle Malkin. Bill O’Reilly. The right-wing attack dogs have thrown everything they’ve got at this campaign. But yesterday, the right-wing attack went to a whole new level.The Republican Party itself just emailed their entire national membership to lash out at John Edwards for daring to stand up and speak the truth about Bush’s failed strategy in Iraq.

Well, the Republican Party may not like it, but fighting for real change is what this campaign is about—and they will never silence us.

But changing America means we’ve all got to stand up, right now, and fight back against these right-wing attacks. John’s going to keep on telling the truth about Iraq and all the big issues that face this country. But it can’t be John alone—we’ve all got to do our part.

The truth is that your contribution, your support, will not only help us fight back against these right-wing attacks—it will also help cover the cost of the town halls, phone lines, TV ads, and all the stuff that helps us get John Edwards’ message of change out to voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and all the key primary states nationwide.

Please consider giving $50, or whatever you can, today to help us fight back and win in 2008.

Of course, the right-wing hate machine will not stop any time soon. We can already hear the steam coming out of Bill O’Reilly’s ears and the venom out of Ann Coulter’s mouth. And we all know how the radical right works—attack, distract, hate, and smear. Well, this campaign will never stop fighting against those insiders.

The truth is that John Edwards is the right-wingers’ worst nightmare: the most progressive candidate in the race—the one with the bold and transformational ideas—who also has the best chance of going all the way to the White House. So they’ll say anything—and spend anything—to try and stop him.

We can’t match the big corporate contributions that keep the right-wing insider machine going.

But we don’t have to.

We can’t match the fear and anger that fuel their attacks.

But we don’t want to.

This campaign is fueled by you—by your small contributions that go so very far—and by the unshakable belief we all share in the power of regular people to bring about transformational change.

So today, right now, give what you can to help us fight back against the Republican smear machine, and keep telling the unvarnished truth about Iraq and every other deceit Bush and his cronies would love to stay buried.

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Mr. John Edwards
To John Edwards for President
410 Market Street
Suite 400
Chapel Hill, NC 27516Dear John,

Welcome to Kentucky! Before you hit the ground, I thought it would be helpful for to you to better understand an issue important to Appalachia.

The coal industry is the centerpiece of eastern Kentucky’s economy. In fact, the Commonwealth has over 17,000 coal miners and 91 percent of our electricity comes from coal. I noticed that you were recently praised by the liberal advocacy group MoveON.org for your opposition to Kentucky coal, and I’m sure the folks in Whitesburg and Prestonsburg would be interested to hear about your plans to “take on” the coal industry.

During your “Poverty Tour” stop in our state, I hope you will get the chance to spend some time with Steve Beshear, who wants to become Kentucky’s top Pit Boss. I think you will find that you have a lot in common. Not only is Mr. Beshear a millionaire masquerading as a friend of working families, but he also shares your affinity for weakening our coal economy and raising taxes for working Kentuckians. You may already know Mr. Beshear since he donated to both your campaigns for United States Senate and President.

Finally, we attempted to deliver a welcoming gift upon your arrival to Kentucky, which the Kentucky Democrat Party declined. This 27-piece grooming set is intended to make you feel more at home here in our state, considering you might have some trouble finding a $400 haircut while you’re in town.
Unfortunately, this small token still won’t go very far in helping you relate better to those in need once you leave Kentucky and return to your $4.2 million mansion this evening. Whether you’re charging college students $55,000 to hear a speech on poverty or earning $500,000 at your part-time hedge fund job, it’s clear that you’re simply out of touch with those who need the most assistance in our country.

Nevertheless, we did go ahead and ship the grooming set to your campaign headquarters, just in case you decide to come back into town one day and visit your buddy Steve Beshear.

Best Regards,
Steve Robertson
Republican Party Chairman

P.S. On the bright side, at least your grooming expenses are less than the $1,300 annual casino tax Steve Beshear plans to place on each and every Kentucky family.
Paid for by The Republican Party of Kentucky, Catherine D. Bell Treasurer

Maybe I’m a bit biased, but I don’t see why the Edwards campaign is having a cow. Attacks, what attacks?
Also look at how generous the Republicans in Kentucky were, they sent dude a gift!
in addition they did not try to use the letter to scam members for donations or make people pay for bogus Pecan Pie recipes.

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This from the Politico via Drudge

Ya know I try to take politics seriously, I really do, but during this election cycle the Edwards campaign is continually proving to me that his campaign staff must be the dumbest bunch of retards in the history of political campaigning.

Edwards keeps saying that those evil Republicans want to silence him, why would he say such stupid shit? I certainly don’t want Edwards silenced, I want him to get air time; I want people to hear the crazy shit he says on the campaign trail.

The individual who shot this clip should be thanked and rewarded for giving the American people another Edwards’s comedy clip. He apparently thinks that going the conspiracy theory route is a winning strategy.

No, Johnny, dude keep talking and keep sending me those stupid e-mails from the geniuses like Joe Trippi, the Pecan Pie recipes and the memos stating that for just $8 you too can cure hunger in America.

Please people, more You Tube of Edwards, Snoop begs you!! LOL!

MyDD* flags an intense minute and a half from John Edwards in Creston, Iowa, yesterday in which he heatedly tells an audience that the attention to trivia (I assume the reference here is to his haircuts) is “not an accident” and that “they want to shut me up” to silence his message about ending the war and universalizing health care.He warns, in the video segment posted by his campaign, that if we don’t beat back these unnamed oligarchs, “They’re going to control the media. They’re going to control what’s being said.”

He doesn’t go into detail about who “they” are, other than a reference to people who make $100 million a year, and compares them to the (actual well-funded, conservative) operation that put the Swift Boat ads on air. He also doesn’t explain exactly how this corporate-media collaboration works, but his audience seems to be rapt.

Here’s from his remarks:

This stuff’s not an accident. Nobody in this room should think this is an accident. You know, I’m out there speaking up for universal healthcare, ending this war in Iraq, speaking up for the poor. They want to shut me up. That’s what this is about. “Let’s distract from people who don’t have health care coverage. Let’s distract from people who can’t feed their children…. Let’s talk about this silly frivolous nothing stuff so that America won’t pay attention.”

They will never silence me. Never.

If we don’t stand up to these people, if we don’t fight em, if we don’t beat them, they’re going to continue to control this country. Thye’re going to control the media. They’re going to control what’s being said. They do not want to hear us talking about health care for everybody.

*UPDATE: The person who posted the video to MyDD, Tracy Joan Russo, is actually an Edwards staffer who does blogger outreach. So the campaign must think this is a winning message. Also: A reader points out that there’s a boom microphone in the shot; again, this is a message being delivered, not an inadvertently-captured departure.

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Am I missing something, are white people being beamed off the planet without my knowledge?
How intellectually vacant must you be to even ask such a question.

I will say there are a lot of really stupid white men (women too) serving in a politically elected capacity across this nation, however unfortunately you can’t get rid of all of them.

Old white guys stick together and if you think for one minute some of these old white guys would allow their grip on this nation to slip you are sadly mistaken.

What keeps an individual like John Edwards from being president is not that he is a white man, but he is a REALLY STUIPD, shallow and fake ass white man.

These people can’t hide their stupidity anymore and it takes more than a being a nice looking white guy with a good smile and a nice tie to get elected.

ALSO: John Edwards Is The Sexiest Woman Alive

Ann Coulter is right he is gay!

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Josh Gerstein - New York Sun 

The Sun caused quite a stir back in March by reporting that a Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, might be aiming to go down in history as America’s first woman president.

That story was based on comments from a longtime abortion-rights activist, Kate Michelman. But now look who’s chiming in: none other than Mr. Edwards’s wife, Elizabeth. She tells Salon that her husband could be better for women than Mrs. Clinton.Our March story was criticized in various quarters, including by the liberal media-watchdog group Media Matters, which seemed most upset that Rush Limbaugh picked up on the item to poke fun at Mr. Edwards’s manliness.

Mr. Limbaugh’s use of our material notwithstanding, it seems that the central thrust of the story, namely that Mr. Edwards is intent on billing himself as more of a feminist than Mrs. Clinton, is borne out by Mrs. Edwards’s latest verbal salvo at the Clinton camp.

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ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: Former senator John Edwards on Tuesday plans to unveil a proposal to alleviate economic inequality in the nation’s public schools, as he decries “economic segregation” in school systems across the country.

“I think we still have two public school systems in this country,” Edwards, D-N.C., said Monday at a town hall broadcast on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “They’re not segregated just based on race. They’re segregated to a large extent based on economics, which has racial implications.”

“The result is, if you live in a wealthy suburban area, the odds are very high that your child will get a very good public school education,” Edwards continued. “If you live in the inner city or if you live in a poor rural area, the odds of that go down dramatically.”

Is this dude a fucken genius or what!?

When the Edwards family purchased a 102-acre plot of land to build a home on in 2004, they appear to have had those odds in mind.

Elizabeth Edwards said at the time that they chose their location — in a more affluent school district than the neighboring district — in large part based on the education the couple’s two young children would receive there.

According to a local newspaper report shortly after the purchase, Elizabeth Edwards said that “the family plans to move there because she and her husband are interested in the school district there.”

More than a year after the purchase, when local bloggers began buzzing about the fact that the new home would be in an unincorporated part of the county that’s part of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district, Mrs. Edwards wrote into the blog and cited the “great public schools” among the reason for their decision to relocate to the new piece of land.

“Our older children attended public schools in Wake County, and I knew well the reputation of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School System,” she wrote in October 2005. “But there are other reasons, too, including the level of political involvement of the people here, the proximity to UNC where John now has a position and works, and good and long-time friends who live here.”

The Edwards children, Emma Claire, 9, and Jack, 7, attend Chapel Hill-Carrboro public schools. The family’s sprawling home sits about a mile outside the boundary for the more rural Orange County school district, which has complained about funding shortfalls in recent years.

Unlike the Edwards family, the front-running Democratic candidates have sent their children to private schools. Sen. Barack Obama’s two daughters attend private schools in Chicago, and Chelsea Clinton attended the exclusive Sidwell Friends School in Washington while she lived in the White House. 

The Edwards campaign says Edwards is the only candidate with a comprehensive plan to address income inequality in schools.

“John and Elizabeth Edwards sent their kids to the school district in which they live,” said Eric Schultz, an Edwards spokesman. “The difference between John Edwards and the Bush administration is that he wants to make sure that every child in America gets to the same opportunity to attend a great public school — they just want to close public schools.”

The plan Edwards is to announce would give federal bonuses to schools in affluent communities that enroll low-income students; double federal funding for magnet schools to promote “economic integration”; and establish new housing vouchers that would allow low-income families to move to better neighborhoods.

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I’m just trying to imagine the strategy session meeting with the Edwards camp in coming up with the $8 figure that is suppose to eradicate poverty.

His campaign team STILL has not grasped the concept that a man living in a crib with mad acreage, high priced haircuts, charging a speaking fee of $55,000 to talk about poverty, folks are just suppose to say ah fuck it, none of that matters if we send out enough of these bullshit e-mails people will forget that.
But the liberal genius Trippi will tell his peeps well it worked for Howard Dean, just put George Bush or Republicans hates the poor and that is guaranteed fundraising gold.
Fucken idiots!

One in 8 Americans currently lives in poverty. George Bush is ignoring all 37 million of them. We need to stop ignoring poverty—and make ending it a national priority.

John Edwards is launching the Road to One America Tour next week to shine a light on the 37 million Americans who live in poverty. If we don’t stand up for them, who will? George Bush and his corporate buddies won’t. The lobbyists in Washington won’t. And since the media can’t stop talking about Paris Hilton, you can bet they won’t help shine a light on it.

Will you help end poverty by giving $8?

That’s why we need you. You can stand with us by making a small but meaningful contribution of just $8 to support the only campaign dedicated to ending poverty in America in 30 years.

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For four decades, Joseph Torrenueva has cut the hair of Hollywood celebrities, from Marlon Brando to Bob Barker, so when a friend told him in 2003 that a presidential candidate needed grooming advice, he agreed to help.

The Beverly Hills hairstylist, a Democrat, said he hit it off with then-Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina at a meeting in Los Angeles that brought several fashion experts together to advise the candidate on his appearance. Since then, Torrenueva has cut Edwards’s hair at least 16 times.At first, the haircuts were free. But because Torrenueva often had to fly somewhere on the campaign trail to meet his client, he began charging $300 to $500 for each cut, plus the cost of airfare and hotels when he had to travel outside California.

Torrenueva said one haircut during the 2004 presidential race cost $1,250 because he traveled to Atlanta and lost two days of work.

“He has nice hair,” the stylist said of Edwards in an interview. “I try to make the man handsome, strong, more mature and these are the things, as an expert, that’s what we do.”

Read the rest if you want but why bother

The Edwards camp should just pack it in. When a candidate’s hairstyle is the biggest attention getter you know your campaign is doomed.
I was shocked to find that the Washington Post would even do this article; I thought it was a joke.
The Edwards campaign clearly went into clown mode when Liz Edwards had to play bully protector to her husband because he was too chicken shit to take on Coulter himself in a shameless fund raising ploy. Another hair story I guess to explain themselves, but why?

Other than John McCain this is clearly the worst run campaign this cycle.

I don’t count people like Brownback because someone has to take you seriously before you can become a “candidate” for President.

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Ya know I like Ann Coulters writing and enjoy reading her editorials. I however am not so amused when she goes on attacking rants because in my mind it is unnecessary.
BUT, this latest flap with Mrs. Edwards she is so dead on and I’m glad even the media is seeing through the latest fake outrage.

Below is another letter mentioning Coulter and O’Reilly and as Ann said using it to raise money. These people are such scam artists.
This is the difference between a well run campaign machine (Mrs. Bill) and a desperate failing campaign.

On the Democrat side it’s a two horse race and they know it, so let’s get some attention by attacking two high profile right wing pundits, how stupid.
Chris Matthews was likely paid big bucks to stage that call in bullshit, but Ann frankly bitched slapped Mrs. E.

I further illustrates that neither John Edwards nor his supposedly sick wife are very bright when it comes to campaigning.

John should try to scam another university into giving him $50,000 for another bullshit speech. Jackass!

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All week we’ve seen the personal attacks come flooding in from Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly and the rest of the right-wing smear machine.

But the real story this week is not them—it’s you. It’s the explosion of grassroots support from folks all over the country who stood up to help us fight back and put us within $1 million of our goal.

We now have 72 hours to hit our goal of $9 million. Seventy-two hours to fight slurs with substance. Seventy-two hours to keep this campaign on track to win. And it all comes down to you. Please give what you can:

We’re fighting back the right way—by taking John’s message of change straight to voters. Earlier this week, our first TV ad in New Hampshire hit the airwaves with John’s inspiring call to action: it is time to ask Americans to be patriotic about something other than war.

You should see the way people in New Hampshire are responding to the ad. But don’t take my word for it—check out the ad yourself. We need your help to keep it on the air in New Hampshire and cut through the noise all over the country.

We’ve only got 72 hours to hit our goal and we need your support today.

Our momentum is growing all over the country. Just last night, 5,000 of John’s supporters gathered at nearly 400 house parties in every state. They talked live to John and Elizabeth, discussed the issues in this race, and made plans for taking this grassroots campaign to the next level.

You are the heart and soul of this campaign. You get what we’re about. You know that personal attacks from folks like Ann Coulter are just attempts to distract from the issues that matter. And you’re the reason her strategy can never succeed.

If you, me and everyone else on this email list gives what we can afford today, we can turn all of our small change into big change—the biggest kind of change for America and the world.

Please take a minute to check out our new ad, and give what you can afford today.

Thank you,

- Jonathan Prince
  Deputy Campaign Idiot
  John Edwards for President
  Thursday, June 28, 2007

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As far as I’m concerned Edwards is done, it’s a two Democrat race and Mrs. Bill will soon eliminate the “Magic Negro”
But I find these fund raising e-mails amusing, they are just so sincere. GIVE ME MONEY AND WE NEED IT, YESTERDAY!

Yesterday, Jonathan told you that the folks who benefit from the status quo are attacking John personally because they don’t want the country to hear his message.

Timeout!!! I have never understood why liberals say those of us on the right want to SILENCE their ridiculous ramblings.

Why would we want to silence candidates like Edwards, the more he speaks the more irrelevant he becomes. Hell I would encourage idiot Edwards supporters to throw their money away and help him get his “message” across to the American people.

The more Edwards speak, the more I get to laugh!

And you know what happened when we called them out? The attacks started pouring in.

That same day, the Ann Coulter-wannabe Michelle Malkin blasted John on her blog. Fox News has been bashing him around the clock. And Coulter herself said, “if I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”

We are fighting back, but we need your help. Give what you can today.

They are trying to put John away before he even gets started. Because they know what we know. They know that John has led on Iraq. That he has lead on universal health care. That he has led on global warming, on poverty, and on building One America.

And they are seeing what we’re seeing—poll after poll showing John outperforming all other Democrats against all Republicans. In the latest poll from Rasmussen Reports, John is the only Democrat to beat Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Fred Thompson—and by an average of 13 points!

What a fucken liar, his campaign is getting desperate.

If you’re a right-wing wing-nut, this is the scariest thing you can imagine—that the Democratic candidate with the boldest vision for America is also the most electable.

LOL! LOL! LOL! OH GOD THIS IS FUNNY

So they will stop at nothing to tear John down. We can stop them—but only if you stand up. We have 5 more days to reach our goal of $9 million. Give what you can today, and help us beat back this vicious tide.

We are counting on you—because we are not counting on corporate interests and D.C. lobbyists. John is the only candidate with a proven record of taking on corporate interests. He is the only candidate who hasn’t taken a dime from D.C. lobbyists or political action committees. He hasn’t sold out, and he hasn’t forgotten where he came from.

But that means we need you to reach our goal. You, and the hundreds of thousands of other supporters on this list. If we all give today, we can turn our small change into big change—big change for America and the world.

With your help, we will keep pushing John’s message in the critical early primary states. Today, we are launching a new TV spot in New Hampshire. People all across the state will hear John’s message: i