For all you Edwards haters...a pic to take your shots at and get it out of your system

[JANdad]

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for god sakes..get it over with and move on...

[Libby2]

1. That's really a great picture of him. n/t

[kentuck]

2. Hey, we all have our faults.

The bigger our egos, the bigger the faults. I hope John comes to his senses and tries to work thinks out with his wife and family and asks forgiveness. It's a personal thing for he and Elizabeth and really none of our business. It's sad that it is all over the TV.

[cwydro]

12. Agreed. nt

[No Elephants]

14. It's all over TV at this point bc Elizabeth is promoting her book on the subject, so I'm

guessing she is not the least bit sad about that.

[cherokeeprogressive]

3. A crocodile smile if I've ever seen one.

Is that hair growing out of his ears? Fucking YUK.

His hair isn't very well combed.

Dude, if you're going to dye your hair, dye your eyebrows too!

[ixion]

4. "haters?"

why use language like that? It totally undermines your credibility, IMO.

[rcrush]

5. HIs hair is stupid.

[Hepburn]

8. How is his hair stupid?

:shrug:

[rcrush]

11. Dont make me explain my insults!

The OP said to insult John Edwards so I did!

[cwydro]

22. lol!

[Stinky The Clown]

6. I was **never** an Edwards supporter

Why the need to use the word "hater"?

This is flamebait.

[JANdad]

10. Why yes it is

just like every other friggin Edwards OP these days.,..but please continue to pile on....

[NeedleCast]

16. Yeah, it's CRAZY that people would call Edwards out for doing a despicable thing

Better to circle the wagons.

[No Elephants]

19. "Haters." " Pile on." Flamebaiting threads. Trying to silence critics. Sound familiar?

[bobbolink]

40. VERY familiar. Like RW tactics.

I guess it's "catching", eh?

[AndyA]

7. I want my campaign donations back, John.

You took them knowing you were going to drop out.

You took them knowing you let your little brain dictate over your big brain.

I feel I was defrauded, you would have never been able to win knowing that news of the affair once out would be a deal killer.

Give your campaign donations back. You don't deserve them.

Edit to add: What John did was no worse than what John McCain did, or Newt Gingrich, or David Vitter, or any of the others who would have condemned John's affair. And I will at least give John a few points for not abandoning his family as McCain and Gingrich did.

I will never forgive John for what he did to Elizabeth and his family. There is simply no excuse for it, and quite frankly that chick he banged wasn't even all that pretty, and she certainly has no ethics or morals to have an affair with a high profile married man. He would have been better off staying at home with Elizabeth, at least he can have an intelligent conversation with her.

[quiller4]

46. I don't want mine back. They funded a discussion worth having. n/t

[spanone]

9. hate and SERIOUS disappointment are two extremely different things.

[Fireweed247]

13. Do you have some rotten tomatoes we can throw or something?

I never did have any respect for him. His speech in the Senate promoting the war in Iraq sounded like it came from Cheney's speech writer. What he did to his wife was awful(of course) but Elizabeth is joining the awful by forcing her children to speak to Oprah about "daddy's affair". Jeebus what is wrong with these people?

[skiddlybop]

15. Um, you get over it,

stop posting and move on yourself.

Otherwise, don't advertise the fact that you loved being a doormat for him, just like his wife did, due respect to her courage in the face of illness.

Mmm-kay?

[frebrd]

17. Starting with this one......

I'm going to hide every thread with the name "Edwards" in it.


:grr:

[Buzz Clik]

18. I don't hate him. I don't dislike him. He was a reasonable candidate for Prez....

... and we would have lost our asses if he had captured the nomination.

Edwards's inability to keep his pecker in his pants would have had ramifications far beyond his own, personal world. I'm grateful he fell out of the picture early.

[kestrel91316]

20. I don't hate him. I'm just really disappointed in him, and glad he didn't

get the nomination (and I was a big supporter).

He's a private citizen now. His PERSONAL life is personal.

[No Elephants]

21. Yes, of course, it's personal. That's why his wife wrote a book on it and he and she are all over

TV promoting it.

They can talk about it and hope to make money from it, but it's off limits otherwise.


Got it.

[kestrel91316]

27. I'm not saying it's OFF LIMITS. It's his personal life, and he's now a private

citizen, so I don't really care what the story is anymore. If other people want to obsess over it, well, that's pretty typical for America these days.

[OswegoAtheist]

23. hmm...

...I don't like that tie.

Oswego "and the knot could stand to be wider" Atheist

[XemaSab]

33. Utah and Colorado are backwards in your sig

:shrug:

[OswegoAtheist]

43. Holy Carp!

You're the first to notice in 6 months, eagle eye. Ahh, I needed an excuse to make a new map anyway.

Oswego "Utah's naturally backward, anyways" Atheist

[AspenRose]

39. Me either.

What a shame...what a waste.

[last_texas_dem]

24. He's not wearing a flag pin- OMGZ!!

[Adelante]

25. I don't care enough about him to hate him

But I will post whatever I want to post and move on when I choose.

[hlthe2b]

26. DIsappointed, that's all--like with Eliot Spitzer--both had so much

to offer... and their personal lapses largely destroyed that potential....

I hope they both move past this and dedicate themselves to helping to move this country forward. We especially need Spitzer right now, but Edwards could have been such an advocate for single payer health care.

[CTyankee]

29. I think Spitzer has more to offer than JRE.

I just want JRE to go away. I wish I'd never heard of him.

[Cha]

28. Edwards brought it on himself.

He fucked up.

[redqueen]

30. Please call to support Single Payer today.

Details at the link in my sig.

Thanks.

[Javaman]

31. Meh...

I supported Edwards and frankly, I find it really shitty that he cheated on his wife who has cancer.

That said...

This is their private matter and I have real issues with Elizabeth Edwards going on the circuit telling her story as if she is the only person this has ever happened to.

So, personally, I find the whole mess repugnant. John for cheating and his wife airing their families dirty laundry.

I'm sure their children really appreciate this infantile behavior.

[TexasObserver]

32. He looks vaguely familiar. Game Show host?

Thank God he was outted before he did any real damage to the party.

[cwydro]

34. Family Feud?

[EFerrari]

35. You might want to check out DU rules about calling out posters. n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

36. The man you wish to defend, on why he Must Defend Marriage

This is Edwards on why he can not support equal rights:

""Because I’m 53 years old, and I grew up in a small town in the rural South. I was raised in a the Southern Baptist church, and so I have a belief system that arises from that. It’s part of who I am. I can’t make it disappear."

Well, it seems he was able to make it disappear if he wanted to. He said lots of this stuff all through his affair. "My Daddy was a small town Deacon, and I'm just too dang values oriented to support gay stuff, shucks."

John and Elizabeth have passed up many opprotunities to apologize for those tactics. They instead speak of themselves and his lover. One man, two women, hallelujah.

[Midniteagle]

37. I think he looks........

like a used car salesman. Just something about that plastic "Trust Me" smile makes me very uncomfortable

[lunatica]

38. The first time he ran my first impression of him was that he was too cute by far

that his kind of cuteness rarely doesn't get the girl. That women would fall all over his obviously boyish charms and that he couldn't be trusted. Then he ran again and I liked what he said so he won this old crone over in spite of his boyish charm and he seemed to be such a good father and husband so I revised my feelings. Then I found out my first impression of him was correct. I don't hate him, because his looks have pretty much trapped him into having the 'cute' appeal that so many women go for. With that charm and that smile and that hair I'm sure that in his life he turned down many more women and was loyal to Elizabeth most of the time.

But first impressions are pretty important.

[rucky]

41. Look at him. Just look at him.

[Nye Bevan]

42. Yes, nice picture. Much more flattering than this one.

[ecstatic]

45. why was he sweating so much?

:shrug:

[ecstatic]

44. JE.... he got almost everything wrong since graduating from college nt