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August 8, 2008 | 6:26 pm

John Edwards has sinned

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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About two hours ago, former two-time presidential candidate John Edwards admitted he had had an extramarital affair but denied fathering a love child.

Yawn ...

I know a lot of people have been gripped by this story, which the National Enquirer was hammering home while dailies kept their news-ink dry. But, seriously, why do we care? Edwards is not going to be Barack Obama’s running mate; he is no longer a U.S. senator. He is now a private citizen, and his sin should be between he, his family and God.

Which brings me to reason I began this post. No, not to waste your time. To share this memory from the campaign trail, courtesy of the DMN religion blog, when during a CNN debate Edwards was asked the biggest sin he’d ever committed:

“Just between you and me?” he asked in jest.

“Just between you and me and the 1,300 people in the crowd,” the moderator replied.

“I’d have a very hard time telling you one thing, one specific sin,” Edwards said. “If I’ve had a day—I turn 54 years old this Sunday—and if I’ve had a day in my 54 years where I haven’t sinned multiple times, I would be amazed. I believe I have. I sin every single day. We are all sinners. We all fall short, which is why we have to ask for forgiveness from the Lord. I can’t—to try to identify one particular sin that was worse or more extreme than the others, the list is too long.”

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Another LYING SACK OF SH*T POLITICIAN, THAT John “look at me preen for the mirror” Edwards! OsiSpeaks.com

Comment by KYJurisDoctor on 8/08/08 at 11:43 pm

Who cares? At least he didn’t molest children like other “religious” insane people.

Comment by Guenter on 8/11/08 at 12:04 am

Coming up to a full moon, I notice. Guenter rises again. At least anti-religious molesters are a thousand to one over religious molesters. Maybe the system is working.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/11/08 at 1:33 am

I ampersonally happy to forget about Edwards too, but not everone is.

The Hillary people are saying that if this had come out before Iowa, Hillary would have gotten a majority of the Edwards voters and won that primary which first established Obama.

Edwards workers and supporters are frosted too. I think this came from ABC News (sorry, already closed the window)
“Former Edwards campaign manager David Bonior, to whom Edwards also lied, is outraged.
“People put their heart and soul into the John Edwards campaign for President of the United States,” said Bonior. “They put their energy, they put their time, the put their resources in, they gave them their confidence and in the end, he wasn’t there for them.”

Of course, there is a factor in Edwards running a high-toned moral and ethical campaign.
“... The affair began long, long, long before she was hired to work for the campaign almost half a year before she was hired to work on those videos,” O’Brien said in an exclusive interview with ABC News. O’Brien says Hunter told her that in late February, early March 2006 she met an amazing man from North Carolina named John at a New York City hotel bar. She referred to her new man as ‘Love Lips’, whom she said was married with small children and a wife who had been ill… With no previous filmmaking experience, Hunter was paid $114,000 by Edwards’ political action committee to produce a series of internet videos that included many scenes of the two on flirtatious banter.

Campaign finance records show the payments to Hunter’s newly-formed film company did not begin until July, 2006. Edwards now insists that he told the truth that the affair did not begin until after she joined the campaign.

It would not necessarily be illegal to use campaign money to pay a mistress, but hardly in keeping with the high moral tone Edwards set during his run for President.”

Edwards on Edwards, though it could be Edwards on Obama:
“Ego. Self-focus, self-importance. Now, I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996. But then after that I ran for the senate and I got elected to the Senate and here we go again, it’s the same old thing again. Adulation, respect, admiration. Then I went from being a senator, a young senator to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want. You’re invincible. And there will be no consequences. And nothing, nothing could be further from the truth.”

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/11/08 at 3:53 pm

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