Democrats could have a worse candidate....

[Bernie AKA]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/08/edwards.affair/index.html

While his wife is fighting cancer.  Asshole to the infinitive.  Besides the betrayal, how motherfucking STUPID with all of the other public figures caught with pants in every conceivable juxtaposition to themselves can you get?

[IDE]

fuck this crap they need to go dig up some dirt on obama.

[ChelseySuzie]

I had heard rumors about this forever.  Cheating is one thing, but while your spouse is battling cancer?  Boo John Edwards, I always thought you were cooler than that.

[ekerou etaou]

uugh, i renounce politics in general.

[Derrick]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/08/edwards.affair/index.html

While his wife is fighting cancer.  Asshole to the infinitive.  Besides the betrayal, how motherfucking STUPID with all of the other public figures caught with pants in every conceivable juxtaposition to themselves can you get?

Just wait till the repubs reveal their big bomb on Obama, though the way he's sinking they might not have to.

[ChelseySuzie]

Is it a gay sex scandal?  I know the Republicans love those.

[Derrick]

That dude still says he's serious. Doesn't Obama look a lil too clean and muscular to be straight, especially at that age?

Plus, I'd never wanna stick my dick in Michelle Obama... or Cindy McCain for that matter.

If McCain picks Charlie Crist, then the elephants can't play the gay-card.

[B E C K]

I don't think him cheating when knowing his wife has cancer is any worse than him cheating in general.

[IDE]

Kicking someone when they're down is worse than or equal to just kicking someone?

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

As the only real conservative on this board...really, who gives a damn at this point?  It's not like we didn't know Edwards was slime from his goofy lawyering days, and it's common knowledge that politicians are all scum-sucking bastards to some degree or another.  And the very fact that Bill Clinton, known cheater and rumored sexual assaulter is going to speak at the convention, and Ted Kennedy, a public drunk and literal lady-killer, is held up as the gold standard for leftist politics and not banned from the Senate for life, just why should Edwards leave politics?

But there is one thing we can all learn from this: DON'T FUCK WITH THE ENQUIRER!

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

The real thing you should be upset about is that this story's been making the rounds for nearly two weeks, yet this is the first time it's actually being reported by most major news outlets.

[Derrick]

As the only real conservative on this board...really, who gives a damn at this point?  It's not like we didn't know Edwards was slime from his goofy lawyering days, and it's common knowledge that politicians are all scum-sucking bastards to some degree or another.  And the very fact that Bill Clinton, known cheater and rumored sexual assaulter is going to speak at the convention, and Ted Kennedy, a public drunk and literal lady-killer, is held up as the gold standard for leftist politics and not banned from the Senate for life, just why should Edwards leave politics?

But there is one thing we can all learn from this: DON'T FUCK WITH THE ENQUIRER!

At least he cheated on her with a woman... as opposed to many conservatives who like goin after the dangles.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Republican != conservative.  Not necessarily. 

But anyway, the only one that comes to mind is Larry Craig...who else?

[Derrick]

Oh, plenty. Some did it with men, some with women, but all cheaters:

Mark Foley (mmm, boys), Charlie Christ (mmm, men, but he's getting married again to secure a spot as VP), Gingrich (women, but still a cheater), Ed Schrock (mmm, 1-900- interactive-male), Mayor Jim West of Spokane (again, mmm boys!), Don Sherwood (well they were hot 20 year old women), LaTourette of Ohio (cheated and lobbied with the same girl), Mitch McConnell (remember him?), Bill Frist (an overall scumbag ditching his fiancee the night before they were to be married for a mistress), and Mark Rubio of Miami (men and women, allegedly still).

I am sure there are many more.

[IDE]

I wouldn't be so quick to count anyone from Miami against either party.  I'm sure cheating like bad driving is a way of life for the people here.

Charlie Christ just looks gay.  Serious gay face going on there.

[Derrick]

His shirts are always just partially open, showing off his chest and a tiny whisp of chest hair... that fucking faggot XD

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Oh, I thought you were talking about there being a huge number of gay conservatives.  Half of those you listed I'd never heard of.  It's not to say that womanizers and cheaters are exclusive to the Dems, just the more notorious ones.  But that reinforces my sentiment towards Edwards...how's he really any worse than anyone else in the business?

I used to oppose term limits, but that no longer applies.

[Bernie AKA]

I really don't give a shit who the public figure is - HOW, in this day and age, could anyone be stupid enough to believe that it would be kept secret?    Joe Nobody has a difficult enough time flirting with the Hooters girl without some buddy whipping out the cell phone cam and busting him.

And not that I'm excusing Edwards, but it does take two to tango, and considering that another Edwards staff member is claiming paternity, it sounds like girlfriend there did a fair bit of dancing, plus it was no secret that Edwards is married.  Plenty of scummy behavior on all sides.

[B E C K]

Kicking someone when they're down is worse than or equal to just kicking someone?

What I mean is that I disagree with putting degrees on things.  Like some people who wouldn't give a shit about any of this if it weren't for the fact that the wife has cancer and cancer is worsteratiwotgkrwlgrl!!wweg  Everybody has their problems.  People with cancer aren't special, they're just know how they'll probably die.

[IDE]

Which is pretty fucking depressing and scary and to have someone you thought you could trust, who was your support through this trying time, stab you in the back is worse in my book than if you could just say "oh well, fuck him I'm going on with my life" instead of "oh well, fuck him, I'm going on with my li...oh wait I'm fucked".

It's really flippant to just rattle off "they just know how they'll die" when the truth is they have to figure out how they'll live with the fact that their time here is effectively over when it comes to living a normal life.  Who would want her now? What hope does she have of starting over with someone else? I mean is she even hot?  If she's attractive then sure I'd hit it.  So at least she maybe has tha...nope I just saw a picture of her! She's done for and she'll never know the touch of my penis.  There is no tomorrow for this woman.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

If Bill Clinton had spawned during one of his trists, would people be feeling as bad for Hillary?  No, because many see her as an cancerless bitch.  That doesn't make it right, just reality.

[Derrick]

I enjoyed how the same liberal talkers who were demonizing Hillary for running against Saint Obama are now saying "POOR HILLARY! Edwards is to blame for her losing, because he should have never been in the race since he had this in the closet." Fuck them like fuck the conservative talkers, they're all about political stories.

[The D]

Oh, the Democrats do have it worse. The Detroit mayor makes this infidelity look like a wild night out at a nightclub.

Not only has Kilpatrick, the Detroit mayor and a married man, had strippers at his mansion for the amusement of himself and his close friends, but he also had at least one affair with a woman at City Hall, Christine Beaty.

The affair is the reason for his current troubles. Forget all the public money he wasted for his own amusement.

A few days after the strippers at the Mayor's mansion, one of them was gunned down in a driveby (possibly by someone hired by the mayor's wife).

Detectives investigated, and the mayor fired both of them, because the investigation probably would have revealed his cheating ways.

The Detectives sued. During the trial the Mayor said on the stand that he did not have sexual relations with that woman (Beaty).

New evidence (text messages, mostly) came up showing he DID have an affair with Beaty.

Now he's in court with 8 felony counts for lying on the stand (perjury) and conspiracy.

And he has two more felony accounts for beating up a police officer who came to the mansion with a warrant.


So Detroit's mayor wastes public money, has strippers, cheats on his wife, lies in court, beats up cops, and he thinks he's King of Detroit and all shall bow to him, and that he's being prosecuted because he's black and the white man is trying to take him down. White politicians have resigned for much less.

Did I mention that the FBI is investigating Detroit city council for accepting bribes from companies?

[B E C K]

No tomorrow for Elizabeth Edwards?  Ha, more than Bernie Mac's ass got.

I stand by what I said.  I'm tired of "and has cancer" becoming to life's problems what "in bed" is to fortune cookie fortunes: as if it's added on for impact.  I'm not saying cancer isn't horrible, but I'm annoyed that it's being used to quantify Edwards' offense.  Even Edwards himself is guilty of this, since he tries to downplay it by saying that it happened when her cancer is in remission.  Because: Less cancer = less bad!!q23rkfljl  WTF-ever.

[Bernie AKA]

It's not so much Teh Kanser, but her being married to a shithead who can't keep his pants zipped when she has enough to deal with already.   If you want a guarantee that almost nothing will go wrong, wear out or break down during the span of the relationship, get a Toyota, not a spouse.  Many people can relate to a cancer incident, which is why it has a particular cachet, and it seems to have become a synonym for The Worst That Can Happen - when I was being treated for clinical depression years ago, my former husband actually said that he wished I had cancer instead so he would have some proof that I wasn't just making it up.  (Of course - a 30-year-old suicidal woman whose weight drops from 114 to 93 in a month is merely being fashionable.   Nothing wrong there.)

But, as always, Rush has the answer.   The whole thing is Elizabeth's fault, so cancer really doesn't enter into the equasion.

It just seems to me that Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk...my theory that I just explained to you about why — you know, what could have John Edwards' motivations been to have the affair with Rielle Hunter, given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot about doing this, and he found somebody that did something with her mouth other than talk.

[B E C K]

It's not so much Teh Kanser

Ha, ha, I read "Ted Koppel".

[Bernie AKA]

   Childfree board phrase - everyone is supposed to suck it up when brats are acting like howler monkeys on crack, regardless of what damage may be in progress to private or public property, because said monkeys WILL grow up to Kure Teh Kanser.   

[ChelseySuzie]

But, as always, Rush has the answer.   The whole thing is Elizabeth's fault, so cancer really doesn't enter into the equasion.

It just seems to me that Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk...my theory that I just explained to you about why — you know, what could have John Edwards' motivations been to have the affair with Rielle Hunter, given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot about doing this, and he found somebody that did something with her mouth other than talk.

When I heard that clip, I wanted to throw up in my mouth a little.  This was a few minutes after he had said, "Okay, I'm done talking about this" but he couldn't keep his mouth shut.

[ekerou etaou]

i don't even consider myself particularly liberal, but i don't hate humanity enough to like or respect rush.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Hold on a second...you're actually trying to tell me that you think Limbaugh was blaming Liz Edwards for her husband's indiscretion in that quote? 

No wonder you people hate him so much...you have no sense of humor or sarcasm.