John Edwards, Adulterer and Liar

The Pokergirl has never liked John Edwards, as her loyal readers may know. Not because of the $400 haircuts while pleading for the poor. Not because of the 28,200 sq ft AIR CONDITIONED house and private plane flights while talking about the environment. Not because we know now that cerebral palsy is not the fault of obstetricians, but of mother nature, and sometimes from anoxia long before birth, thus Edwards put so many obstetricians out of practise and made malpractise insurance so high that it wasn't worth it for the docs to stay in business. Not because of his pretentious and condescending attitudes toward the so-called "poor" that we are all forced to talk about all the time, as if we are not worthy if we earn money and want to keep some. Not because his wife is dying, but he'd rather be president than take care of his small children and help them through what will soon prove to be a motherless life. No, no, no, those are just contributing factors. Those things just make him an arrogant asshole, and beneath my radar in general. His wife? Well, she married him and stayed with him. And not to speak ill of the almost gone, she's no prize herself in the character area, but we'll leave that alone. Why don't I like John Edwards? Because he is a bald faced liar. He looked into the eyes of everyone, just like Bill Clinton did, and said "I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman". He is implying she is a rather loose woman, because while he now says he DID have sex with Rielle Hunter, he says he cannot be the father of the baby that he refuses to take a DNA test for. He expects us to believe that he went to her hotel room at 2 am, held the baby, "visited" with her, and yet, he is not the father. Someone else is. So he is implying that Ms Hunter is a whore. One that he cannot stay away from because he just must go see her in hotel rooms. And hold her baby. Though it cannot be "his" baby. Oh really? Oh no, Edwards says the baby's father is one Andrew Young, who has his OWN wife and small children. And evidently, according to the Enquirer, the real Mrs Young is pretty pissed off about this cover up. I'll admit that we all have a price. Every last one of us. But look at the people in this deal: the Young family, Rielle Hunter, the beleaguered Mrs Edwards, two innocent young Edwards children, one very young infant who will have to face this all one day- and all caused by whom?- the pretty boy, the detestable and arrogant and elitist hypocrite, John Edwards. A man who KNEW all of this, but ran for president anyway. Had others not smelled a rat, he could have won. And then all this would have come out later in the middle of a presidential election. What a mess. What a liar. Perfectly intelligent people fell for this guy hook, line and sinker. Because of his rhetoric, his speeeches about morality, and possibly his looks. They gave him money, $114000 of which went to his mistress. This is a digusting human being. A man who embarrasses other men. And THAT is why I am sorry for everyone he has hurt, and I am infuriated by the nastiness that is John Edwards. As a very succesful business leader said "If a man will cheat on his wife and family, he will cheat me, because I mean nothing to him." Luckily, he will never be our lying president.