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Now we know why John Edwards was always smiling -- he apparently was boning the woman (a 43-year-old video producer) pictured below while he was seeking the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Interestingly, in one of the videos the other woman produced for the Edwards campaign, the philandering Edwards stated: "If we want to live in a moral, honest, just America and if we want to live in a moral and just world, we can't wait for somebody else to do it. We have to do it."
And memo to those who cheat on their partners: Claiming that you didn't love the person with whom you had your affair, as Edwards claims, doesn't make you look better. Instead, if you are telling the truth, it indicates that you have a disconnect between love and sex, which indicates pathetic psychospiritual immaturity, and please please please tell me how, exactly, it would make your partner feel better to hear that the affair you risked your relationship for was just a meaningless fling, that you risked your relationship for something completely frivolous. Um, yeah...
Good riddance, Guy Smiley!
I never much cared for John "Permasmile" Edwards. A millionaire trial lawyer who perpetually grins from ear to ear and claims to care sooo damned much for the poor -- I always sensed that something about him was, um, off.* I could tolerate him, but he never made me moist.
Thank Goddess that Permasmile never really had a chance at the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, now that he admits that he cheated on his cancer-stricken wife in 2006.
Maybe, just maybe, he could have gotten away with the infidelity, but he repeatedly had lied about reports of his affair with the 43-year-old female video producer whom he apparently boned, and maybe, just maybe, he even could have gotten away with the lying (I mean, that's what politicians do, isn't it, lie and cheat on their spouses?), but the fact that he has three children and that his wife has been battling breast cancer since 2004 -- well, his political career should be pretty dead now if it wasn't already.
Although Edwards admits that he was "egocentric and narcissistic" and claims, "You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself," he nonetheless should be relegated to the dustbin of history. After all, the Associated Press notes:
In 1999, when Edwards was a senator, he said of President Clinton and his affair with Monica Lewinsky:
"I think this president has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen."
Breathtaking indeed!
Again, I'm just very happy that the megafuckinghypocritical Edwards didn't win the Democratic presidential nomination.
Oh, well; if nothing else, we can scratch off one of the names from Barack Obama's list of possible veep picks.
And very apparently, because he cheated on his wife with another woman -- and wasn't, oh, say, looking to have down-low gay sex with an undercover cop in a men's restroom, as was the toe-tappin' Repugnican Idaho Sen. Larry Craig -- rabid wingnut attack dog Ann Cunter, was wrong, as usual, when she called Edwards a "faggot."
*The Associated Press notes that Edwards, who made "millions" as a trial lawyer, "is hardly a traditional populist, bedeviled during his campaign by tales of $400 haircuts and reminders of his 102-acre estate -- complete with basketball gym and 28,000-square-foot mansion -- outside of Chapel Hill."
I'm not saying that you have to live like a pauper yourself in order to help the poor. But it doesn't sound like Edwards exactly has been walking the Buddhist middle path, does it?
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