Left Wing Reactions to Edwards Story About What You'd Expect

"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."--John Edwards during the Clinton Lewinsky scandal as dug up by Matt Welch.

Read the quote above and then wallow in this as written by some scrub named Joe Sudbay from Americablog:

Okay. For the record, I really don't care who sleeps with whom -- as long as the person isn't a hypocrite. But, this long-rumored story is now sweeping through the traditional and online media. I debated whether even to post this revelation, but we're adults and it's news. It's out there. I'm not condemning Edwards. I don't care. But, if the GOPers or the traditional media decide to make a big issue out of this one, I have one question: Where's Vicki Iseman?

Well Joe, regardless if you care who sleeps with whom or if you don't, that quote above makes Edwards a 100%, low-down, scumbag hypocrite now doesn't it?

As for Vicki Iseman, she was purported to be McCain's lover in a NY Times piece that has been discredited for quite some time. The piece was unsourced and both parties have said it was untrue.

Now let's think about this Joe old buddy, if it were true, don't you think the intrepid media--the media who did not even so much as make a phone call in the Edwards issue--would have had at least an iota of evidence? The media who support your causes was beaten to the biggest story of the summer by the National Enquirer (and Micky Kaus) for crying out loud and your only response is Vicki Iseman?

Pretty pathetic, dude. But then, I've grown accustomed to lame spin emanating from the liberal blogs of late for the pathetic campaign Obama has has run so it's not too surprising in this case.

Update: Gotta love those "nuanced" libs reading and commenting to lil' Joe. This psycho is my personal favorite:

Where's Vicki Iseman?

Uh, it's a fairly safe bet she is dead, and the body destroyed.

That's how The REAL GOP operates.

We are seeing the REAL GOP in action at this time,on behalf of McCain.

Slam-dunk.

Yo Nikto, dude, you still haven't figured out our M.O. have you. We don't kill, we just buy them off to go away. But when we have to resort to actually offing them, well, let's just say the people who whacked Hoffa were amateurs. There will be no bodies found in DC parks in a McCain administration I can tell you that! (sarcasm off).

John Edwards Admits Affair to ABC

He's still not coming completely clean in my opinion and he takes an oily tack:

According to friends of Hunter, Edwards met her at a New York city bar in 2006. His political action committee later paid her $114,000 to produce campaign website documentaries despite her lack of experience.

Edwards said the affair began during the campaign after she was hired. Hunter traveled with Edwards around the country and to Africa.

Edwards made a point of telling (Bob) Woodruff that his wife's cancer was in remission when he began the affair with Hunter. Elizabeth Edwards has since been diagnosed with an incurable form of the disease.

And because his wifes cancer was in remission it made it better because why? He broke a sacred pact with your wife who had suffered through cancer and the death of a child because he couldn't keep it in his pants, plain and simple. That is unforgivable in any circumstance.

The fact that Rielle Hunter is an absolute flake is also disconcerting as it appears the man who was a few percentage points from being VP is too mentally weak to control himself and also has questionable taste in women he chooses to fool around with. Yeah, I think a guy who meets his mistress in a bar is an excellent candidate for President or VP.

Edwards said he told his wife, Elizabeth, and others in his family about the affair in 2006.

...Edwards today admitted the National Enquirer was correct when it reported he had visited Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton last month.

The former Senator said his wife had not known about the meeting.

Which of course brings up the question: If the affair is over and he isn't the father of the baby, why the hell was he sneaking into and out of Rielle Hunter's hotel room in the early morning hours?

He also says he told his wife about the affair in 2006 but still forced her--while suffering from cancer--to go on the campaign trail with him and then lied to her about visiting the woman he cheated on her with. He needs to get spiritual guidance from Jesse Jackson, and soon, so the media can say he atoned for his sins. Old Jesse may even give you few tips on the love child thing.

He's pulling a classic Bill Clinton here. Deny, deny, deny and then admit what little you have to when caught. This guy is mining new depths of scumbaggery heretofore never seen.

I imagine the media will have no choice but to cover the story now, don't ya think? Boy did they come out of this whole sordid affair looking like exactly what Conservatives have been accusing them of being all these years: biased beyond all hope.

Update: As expected, the spin begins. The Carpetbagger Report rips Micky Kaus (who has been shown to be right--yet doesn't gloat). This idiot blames Edwards not for the affair or the immorality but for believing he could get away with it. This guy, who evidently isn't a MENSA member, calls McCain a "serial adulterer" and mourns for the loss of this passionate voice. Yeah dude, he was evidently quite passionate.

The interesting--but not unexpected thread--that runs through all the lib responses is that they take him to task for putting himself in position to get caught yet none even condemn him for cheating or his sick wife. Politics trumps morality for the libs. Priorities folks, priorities.

Update 2: Allah has much, much more including my personal favorite where David Shuster portrays the media as victim.

National Enquirer Releases Edwards Photos

They are fuzzy and as Ed notes, there are some issue with them but the NE released the picture below of what is allegedly John Edwards holding his alleged baby in the Beverly Hills hotel room of Rielle Hunter:

It's not quite the slam-dunk evidence the NE had us believe they had and it is presented with typical tabloid splash but it is pretty convincing that it is indeed Edwards.

That said, why has he not addressed this issue in a forthright manner? There's only two possible reasons; a) he innocent and believes he is above this and doesn't have to explain himself to anyone, or b) he's guilty as hell and knows it will come out in due time and to claim innocence when he's not would make things infinitely worse. Think Bill Clinton's infamous "I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky" lie.

I'm guessing it's the latter.

This story is going to break and Sen. Obama best hope it's after the Denver convention. That doesn't seem to be a great strategy as the story is breaking through the media collusion to contain it:

“He absolutely does have to (resolve it). If it’s not true, he has to issue a stronger denial,” said Gary Pearce, the Democratic strategist who ran Edwards’ 1998 Senate race. “It’s a very damaging thing. ...

“The big media has tried to be responsible and handle this with kid gloves, but it’s clearly getting ready to bust out. If it’s not true, he’s got to stand up and say, ’This is not true. That is not my child and I’m going to take legal action against the people who are spreading these lies.’ It’s not enough to say, ’That’s tabloid trash,’“ Pearce said.

Again, the fact he has not even partially confronted this says more than any words.

This is too juicy for the media to ignore for much longer: a former VP candidate and two-time presidential candidate who received glowing media coverage has a child with a woman who is not his wife while his wife suffers from cancer. The wife also was trotted out to defend the candidate and a portion of his campaign was centered around the tribulations of his ailing wife. Americans can understand this a hell of a lot easier than his "two Americas" rhetoric and will want to read every salacious detail because we love scandal in the US.

Instead of "two Americas," it appears we have the two lives of John Edwards and they're about to collide in stunning fashion.

Update: Read Ann for more.