Edwards story on 20/20: Edwards wanted Young to get Hunter to have an abortion..

[ddeclue]

:eyes:

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. Why is this story

even in the news, really? He's out of politics forever and we have bigger fish to fry...

[Bluenorthwest]

13. He gets no quarter, for using the civil rights battle of others

as a hypocritical cover for his own actions. For standing in front of America and raving about his traditional Baptist roots, and his view of marriage as a sacred bond between, get this, one man and one woman, and how because this defense of marriage was 'simply a part of' him, he had to stand up for God and against basic equal rights for minorities he stated are less holy and loved by God than him and his wife and mistress, or any of the children from any of those unions.

[unabelladonna]

14. thank you

and that is why he is such a repulsive creature. f---ing hypocrite.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

16. He is and/or may be

all those things plus. My question is, why are we paying attention to it? His chickens have come home to roost and he will pay the price. To me, for me to watch and hang on every detail is akin to attending a public execution which NEVER brings out the best in the spectators. :shrug:

[iamjoy]

2. Plausible

I mean, it might be seen as a "convenient" way to get rid of embarrassing problem? Is Edwards capable of it? Who know. Many of us thought Edwards was sincere in his love and loyalty for Elizabeth and now we know that's not true.

I don't trust Young either, though. He's no paragon of virtue - not if he was willing to lie for Edwards for so long. Hunter isn't "coming clean" because he feels this great moral responsibility. He feels he got screwed by Edwards and wants to make money off his "inside" information. If a few embellishments make for a juicier story, well, why the hell not.

[ddeclue]

3. Joy.. Hunter is the mistress. Young was the coverup minion..

[iamjoy]

9. I Corrected It

But Hunter's no princess either.

[uppityperson]

4. So? They are legal and everyone has an opinion.

[ddeclue]

5. Yes they ARE legal but it goes against his moralistic image..

remember this was the same guy who was against gay marriage..

[uppityperson]

7. Did he ever say he was anti-choice? Or do you mean having an abortion is amoral?

I may have misunderstood.

[ddeclue]

8. No to be fair he was consistently pro-choice

but he definitely played himself up as a family guy and conservative when he thought it served him.

[naaman fletcher]

15. It's called being a hypocrite, nobody likes one, and Edwards is hypocrite A#1.

He was campaigning on how loyal he was to his cancer stricken wife.. while cheating on her. He was campaigning on his salt of the earth values... while making sex tapes and then pressuring the gal to have an abortion.

He then lied about it for a while.

F him.

[Arkana]

6. Just proves that schadenfreude knows no party label.

If you parade around as some paragon of moral virtue, God will smite the FUCK out of you.

[Fumesucker]

10. That's not quite schadenfreude

More like Karma..

[usregimechange]

11. Glad I supported Obama in the primaries.

[Lex]

12. Well, duh.

Of course he did.

[treestar]

17. Soap opera

That's what this is.

[marmar]

18. Jerry Springer would reject this plot as being too trashy....

nt