Posted on 09/30/2008 1:10:17 PM PDT by presidio9
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Thursday he will not speak at any public engagements until after the November election, extending an exile that began last month after he admitted to an extramarital affair.
"Nothing is more important than electing Barack Obama and Joe Biden," Edwards said in a statement released by his speaking agency. "I don't want my appearance at these events to be a distraction from the important issues of the election, or from the important purpose of these meetings."
Edwards had been scheduled to speak next week at Hofstra University in New York. That speech was canceled earlier Thursday. Edwards had last week confirmed his intentions to speak at Hofstra on Tuesday even after his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, backed out of what was to be a joint appearance.
Hofstra spokesman Stuart Vincent said an agent for John Edwards told the school Thursday that he would also not attend an event that was booked months before Edwards admitted to an affair.
"We regret that our students will not have the opportunity to hear Mr. Edwards talk about his experiences as the 2004 Democratic nominee for vice president and his two presidential campaigns, but we respect his decision," Vincent said.
The former N.C. senator hasn't spoken publicly since admitting to an affair a month ago. He was scheduled to speak about his experiences over two presidential campaigns as part of a series of events leading up to the Oct. 15 presidential debate at Hofstra.
John and Elizabeth Edwards had speeches scheduled for later in September and October. Salem State College said earlier this week that the couple canceled a Sept. 23 talk at the Massachusetts school.
Don Walker, president of the Edwards' speaking agency, said Elizabeth Edwards plans to speak at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and Cooper University Hospital in New Jersey later this month.
John Edwards acknowledged last month that he had an affair with Rielle Hunter, who was hired to produce videos of him in 2006.
She spent time with him on the campaign trail as he toured the nation and the world highlighting poverty and the gap between rich and poor.
A 2004 vice presidential nominee, Edwards began his campaign for president at the beginning of 2006 with Hunter still in tow. She left his side as the campaign began in earnest.
Edwards dropped from the race before the Super Tuesday primaries after placing second in the Iowa caucuses.
Such an ego, what makes him think we what to hear from be after the election either.
“We regret that our students will not have the opportunity to hear him sing Lou Christie’s “Two faces have I...”
Have not missed him; and will not later.
I'm sure the spin will be “Edwards is a better mother than Palin!”
/sarc
He’s sleeping with Michelle Obama now?
His wife is speaking in NC this week.
Is he going to be “under cover?” hehe
His wife is speaking in NC this week.
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What’s her theme? How to be a doormat and like it?
Possible.
They've both disappeared. It would only make sense that they are together, doing whatever.
[I wish I knew who did this photoshop, so I could give appropriate credit.]
Spending his time buying Pampers in LA.
I feel sorry for his kids, they will take the grunt of it.
Are there really serious people calling for John Edwards to ‘speak out?’ lol If so, who the heck are those people? And for how long have they been brain dead?
What else?
Anything besides the affair.
Actually, it is health care. Nothing about STD’s I presume.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2008/09/30/article/elizabeth_edwards_to_speak_in_carrboro
She’s safe, I doubt he’s touched her in years.
“Nothing is more important than electing Barack Obama and Joe Biden, EXCEPT NOT electing Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
He's living in an unreality. I'm sure Obomination and Bidet don't want him around poopin' on their parades, either.....and they told him so a long time ago.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice make-believe
(The Bard of FR)
Leni
Obama got lucky with Edwards in two different ways (so to speak):
First, by Edwards lying through his teeth and denying the affair last year when the tabloid broke it. The story was out there and enough to weaken him in the run up to Iowa but not enough kill his campaign. If he had dropped out then, Hillary would have picked up Edwards voters in Iowa and probably would have won the Caucus (and as things progressed, the nomination).
More importantly, Edwards got busted BEFORE the Democratic primary. The smart money was on Edwards being picked as the Dem VP nominee again (he’d already been vetted, ha!).
Imagine if he got busted with his baby mama AFTER he was on the ticket, what a mess that’d be!
I’m sorry Edwards turned out to be a cad. I thought he was more honest than the average liberal. As it turned out, his gift was really that he was a better liar.
“John Edwards said Thursday he will not speak at any public engagements until after the November election,”
Yeah, I’m sure his phone is ringing off the hook with invites.
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