Edwards(John) and the Enquirer

The Nation, via yahoo ^ | Dec 19,2007

[AmericanMade1776]

If the story is true, John Edwards is finished as a contender for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. The story is the National Enquirer top-of-the-page cover article -- which is set to go on sale at the checkout counters of the supermarkets and drug stores of Iowa, New Hampshire and the other 48 states Wednesday morning -- that claims the former senator from North Carolina is the father of a soon-to-be-born "love child."

The article claims Edwards, who has long burnished an image as the consummate family man and whose wife Elizabeth is a key player in his campaign, had an 18-month affair with female staffer who traveled with the candidate during the current campaign. According to the Enquirer, which is indeed a supermarket tabloid but which has at least some history of breaking sordid political stories that turn out to have credibility, the staffer is now six-months pregnant and hiding from the media.

[AmericanMade1776]

The Enquirer and other tabloids, it should be remembered, broke stories of Bill Clinton's affairs in 1992. But Clinton had a reputation as a rogue. Edwards has always presented himself as a dedicated husband to Elizabeth, who is currently fighting cancer, and as the doting father of young children.

(from same article)

[sticker]

Who do you think is behind the info, hillary or obama?

[IrishMike]

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 Beast’s slime team in action ????

[AmericanMade1776]

I think it is the pregnant staffer behind this info.

[theDentist]

The Clintons are using scenarios used against Bill in his candidacies on their opponents. This is just one more. Whether it’s true is still to be determined.

[SlowBoat407]

And Elvis is the mother.

[Just mythoughts]

Well it if is NOT true then the Enquirer has slandered the perfect lawyer. What fun it would be for these two to tangle in a court of law.

[rod1]

The Clinton machine is taking them down. Obama is next.

[mad_as_he$$]

Now if Huma would turn up pregnant........Kill Bill Vol 3.

[Slapshot68]

Will he send Elizabeth out to deny the accusation?

[alice_in_bubbaland]

The current owner of the Enquirer is a major campaign contributor to Her Thighness. I can't remember his name though.

[Obadiah]

While the MSM media certainly should report this if true, however, they had better not frame this as a negative in any manner, shape, or form. After all, all we heard during the Clinton Administration from the MSM was that it does NOT matter what a person does in their private life!

[NewCenturions]

I thought it had been established that he’s gay!

[SueRae]

I didn’t know that. Certainly food for thought.

I’m waiting for Edwards to file a defamation suit, being the lawyer that he is (Not that I wouldn’t do the same if the story was untrue)

[randita]

If this proves true, and Edwards is toast, where will his voters go - Obama or Clinton?

[digger48]

Especially since he would have been boffing the Bimbo while Liz was getting Chemo

[bmwcyle]

Hillary didn't have cancer.

[MaestroLC]

...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.

I think we can always count on bombshell stories like this to be from the Clinton camp.

[Ann Archy]

Roger ALtman is a CLINTONISTA who OWNS the National Enquirer!!

[digger48]

Edwards is the pick of the DUmmies.

Anyone care to don a haz-mat suit and venture over there?