and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 06/03/2011 7:17:47 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Edited on 06/03/2011 7:43:14 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
A federal grand jury has indicted two-time presidential candidate John Edwards in a campaign finance investigation.
The criminal charges filed Friday came after a two-year federal investigation into money used to cover up an extramarital affair during the 2008 presidential election.
Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina, said in a statement through his attorney in 2009 that he was confident no funds from his campaign were used improperly.
But federal officials have said the hundreds of thousands of dollars two Edwards donors gave to help keep his mistress in hiding were contributions that should have been reported publicly by his campaign fund because they aided his bid for the Democratic White House nomination.
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Meh, large numbers of those people are on government assistance and most of them aren't going to vote Republican anyway. The chronically unemployed, those on disability, etc, are mostly a permanent Democrat voting block - they are not going to vote for a candidate or a party that even discusses the idea of scaling back their freebies. Obama's mostly already got these people's vote.
“Update: John Edwards Indicted for Using Campaign Funds to Cover Up Affair.”
Frankly, the only thing I found amazing about this entire incident is that Edwards actually had an affair with a woman!?
EODGUY
It’s been a pathetic week to be a liberal.
‘a few months of pooty tang with a new age nut-job.’
Hey, that ‘new age nut-job’ is from here in Ocala. There must be something about her — the famous electrocuting the show horse for insurance case was about her father and her horse, and the novelist Jay McInery (sp) used her as a character in two noveels.
Glad I could help out, friend.
For a campaign finance scandal that absolutely dwarfs this, Hillary paid no price whatsoever. Amazing.
People got the hint from Vince Foster.
the DUmmies only thread on Edwards has 85% of the posts b!tching about Ensign... they just can't talk about their failures, all they can do is say OOOO LOOK WHAT THE REPUBLICANS DID!!!
That wife that’s still alive and well after her benign tumor?
Excellent post dglang.
Kudos
I sincerely thank you for your kind thoughts. Daniel
Will the “trial” be in NC? If so, he may be freed quickly, for a Carolinian hates more than anything to admit that he has been conned.
Yes, there’s about a 44 percent floor which Obama can’t fall under. Many Americans will support Obama to avoid admitting they were conned.
You're giving Obama way too much credit by claiming that the economy is not all that bad and that those unemployment numbers are merely government assistance people and would not work if they could.
That is NOT the case.
However, there will come a point where desperate republican voters without a job and facing the shelters and losing their children due to lack of resources to support them WILL indeed vote for the party that promises to hand out the cash.
This is probably the ultimate goal of Obama and his party. Long-term it has always been the ultimate goal.
There is NO excuse for this economy.
“Pathetic” is not a word liberals use. Many couldn’t define it. They still believe “a check in the mail” will arrive before November 2012.
You are of course correct. The American people just can’t figure it all out.
Indeed - and as huge as that scandal is, a staggering number of other gigantic scandals are connected to her as well.
Which is why the REALLY spectacular news story, her being dumped for Obama (who, I believe, was to be her V.P.), is all the more important for never having been addressed at all.
If you recall, during the primaries, Edwards and Obama suddenly teamed up against Hillary onstage. I believe Edwards himself started it, by saying "now Hillary" in a condescending fashion at one debate, and then lighting into her, seconded by Obama. The shock in her face was beyond priceless, because up until that time, she was just cruising in for her coronation.
Well, since she got dumped to the curb, Obama has taken protection in the White House. But poor John Edwards... did you know his cancer-ridden wife who he cheated on and shamed with a mistress child was... a very good friend of Hillary's?
Conclusion: I think Hillary is pulling a lot of strings to get him, and Obama is utterly indifferent to his fate.
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