Posted on 08/11/2008 4:11:30 AM PDT by IbJensen
Rielle Hunter compared John Edwards with Gandhi and went around trashing his cancer-stricken wife, it was reported Sunday.
A Newsweek writer who courted her as a source during Hunter's affair with the presidential candidate portrays Edwards' mistress as a charming but hugely indiscreet muddlehead who called reporters with New Age babble about Edwards' "old soul."
Asked about Elizabeth Edwards, who is unusually well-liked by political operatives and reporters, Hunter told reporter Jonathan Darman, "She does not give off good energy. ... I've only met her once.... She didn't make eye contact with me."
Darman wrote of meeting Hunter, a former yoga instructor hired by the Edwards campaign to shoot Web videos, at a campaign event in 2006 and later getting an e-mail from her, saying she had a story for him.
The story she wanted printed was that Edwards was "an old soul" with a "special energy" who could be a transformational leader like Mahatma Gandhi or the Martin Luther King Jr. if he used his heart more and his head less.
"Her purpose on this Earth, she said, was to help raise awareness about all this, to help the unenlightened become better reflections of their true, repressed selves," Darman wrote - underscoring yet again the candidate's stunning lack of judgment.
Darman said he asked, "Do you talk about this stuff with the candidate?"
Hunter's reply: "All the time."
Darman wrote a small story about Edwards hiring a woman he had met in a bar that appeared in the Dec. 25, 2006, issue of Newsweek.
When he saw her again a few weeks later, Hunter said she'd been fired by the campaign and blamed Elizabeth Edwards.
"'Someday,' Rielle said, 'the truth about her is going to come out,'" Darman wrote.
In the summer of 2007 - long after the affair was over, according to Edwards, and several months after Elizabeth Edwards got a grim cancer diagnosis that gave her only a few years to live - Hunter told Darman she was dating a mystery man she couldn't name.
Freelance writer Sarah Miller, describing meeting Hunter at a party in Los Angeles some years ago, said Hunter was scatter-brained but ambitious.
"I am going to be famous," she declared, according to Miller's account in the Los Angeles Times. "Rich and famous. I am going to meet a rich, powerful man."
Miller said Hunter, who talked of energies in the air, said she would accomplish this feat by "manifesting it."
In a bizarre case of six degrees of scandal separation, Hunter was married in the 1990s to Kip Hunter, son of the Colorado district attorney who famously led the failed JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation. They divorced in 1999.
In confessing his affair Friday, Edwards told ABC he doesn't think his political career is over, but his chances of being asked to reprise his 2004 veep run, serve in the cabinet or even address the Democratic convention are now less than zero.
Edwards, who scored more than 60 delegates and came in third behind Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in his bid for the White House, confirmed he won't even attend the Democratic convention in two weeks.
Mimi Hockman, Hunter's business partner, told reporters gathered outside her South Orange, N.J., house: "Don't waste your time. I'm contractually prohibited from talking to you."
hkennedy@nydailynews.com
Well said. The truth is the truth.
As a guy, I gotta ask this question. Are there any women out there with enough self-respect to send these clowns packing? Until then, she's no better than the rest, she's just the whore at the head of the table.
What I thought was interesting is that Edwards described his narcissism as sort of a passing thing, all caused by the campaign.
Narcissism is a lifetime trait or condition. It doesn’t come and go.
The only one more stupid than Hunter in all this is Edwards...........
Really? You don’t hear people referring to others’ orbits? It is quite common around my orbit!
Isn't that true of most of the Dem platform? A bunch of wishful thinking and airy promises?
Not much but what she does have has been bought and paid for. Why in the world would the Silk pony's best friend on earth (Baron) move these two people (Hunter and Andrew Young + family) to the same gated community in CA? How stupid is that?
“Narcissism is a lifetime trait or condition. It doesn’t come and go.”
That’s why I said it was a bad sign he said it. It doesn’t just go away. It sounds like he was told by his therapist he is a naracisst. Lord only knows what else he told his therapist? One can only wonder.
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If you're looking for self-respecting women, Free Republic is lousy with them. :)
I'd be surprised if the vast majority of FReeper females don't and wouldn't put up with this kind of nonsense.
Must be all that cancer!
Mark
Re: Rielle Hunter compared John Edwards with Gandhi
I stopped reading right there.
I think you mean karma.
John Edwards was right.....there ARE two Americas. One which has men who will cheat on their wives undergoing cancer therapy and one which will not.
It might be one thing if my husband were having an affair, quietly out of town. There is some small possibility we could work things out. If not, we could separate discreetly.
But for a POS who has cameras following him around all the time...I'd kick him to the curb as publically and in as humiliating a manner as humanly possible.
They both have a huge lack of judgement. What losers!!! The best may be yet to come. The legal consequences of these payoffs could be huge.
You know, I gotta think that the number of women who give off “good energy” when meeting their husbands’ mistresses is vanishingly small...
Rather than opening her mouth to talk, she should have just used it to produce a swallow.
That is more proof he was doing her. LOL!
Can't you just see it. She's blathering on all about new age nonsense, while he's smiling blankly and pulling off her clothes, and Hunter thinks he is hanging on her every word.
It kind of makes you wonder how many other "Rielle Hunters" there are out there...
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