Edwards Admits To Lying About Affair

Right from the start of the primaries this year I had wanted someone to wipe the
"I am better than you" smirk off of John Edwards face, and lo and behold, it took the
sleazy tabloid, the National Enquirer to do it. I was just reading this story at Yahoo News,
and was quite surprised by it. I will not gloat much about it, because it is his family that must
live this down and they have my full sympathy. As for Edwards, I have nothing
but contempt, disgust, and derision.
Hopefully, this will be his good riddance from public life, and he can take his smirk
and go home.

Former presidential candidate John Edwards, who won nationwide praise and sympathy as he
campaigned side-by-side with his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, admitted in shame Friday he
had had an affair with a woman who produced videos for his campaign.

Acknowledging a sex scandal he had dismissed as "tabloid trash" only last month, Edwards said
he had told his wife and family long ago, but "I had hoped that it would never become public."

He denied fathering a daughter, born to the woman with whom he had the affair, and offered to
be tested to prove it. A former Edwards campaign staff member professes to be the father.

The former North Carolina senator, who was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2004,
confessed to ABC News that he had lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle
Hunter. Hunter's daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter, was born on Feb. 27 this year, and no father's
name is given on the birth certificate filed in California.

After the story broke Friday, Edwards released a statement that said, "In 2006, I made a serious
error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core
beliefs. I recognized my mistake, and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman,
and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I
did not tell the public." "I was and am ashamed of my conduct and choices," he said. "With my
family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006, and today I take full responsibility publicly."


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