For the record, I do not agree that adultery should be illegal. Not even cheating on your cancer-ridden wife, no matter how tempting it is to think of Newt Gingrich doing a perp walk.

I'd be mad at him but he isn't. I know it sounds like I'm sticking up for Edwards but I'm not, I'm simply not demonizing him. Bill Clinton screwed around within a few years of when he got the nomination for president in 1992 and to my surprise people elected him anyway.

I would probably care a little more if I liked Elizabeth Edwards but she's yet another preening candidate's wife who thinks they are a 2 for 1 deal and she's co-candidate. I find that undemocratic and annoying.

Look, as Chuck Todd said correctly today, anyone who runs for president is automatically arrogant and vain. They are not average people, they are people who wake up, look in the mirror and say "You know, you should be running the free world." Of course people with that personality are prone to doing narcissistic things like this.

On a related subject, I was a little mad at Obama for having a 20 year relationship with a fiery over the top preacher too, which is comparable - it severely undercut Obama's image, it went against what he stood for and he was lucky to survive it. But if Obama hadn't gotten the nomination and then it came out I'd be "eh it sucks but not the end of the world."

From an interview with Reille Hunter, Edwards's mistress:

"One of the great things about John Edwards is that he's so open and willing to try new things or do things in new ways."

Too. Much. Information!

Elizabeth Edwards responds:

Our family has been through a lot. Some caused by nature, some caused by human weakness, and some – most recently – caused by the desire for sensationalism and profit without any regard for the human consequences. None of these has been easy. But we have stood with one another through them all. Although John believes he should stand alone and take the consequences of his action now, when the door closes behind him, he has his family waiting for him.

John made a terrible mistake in 2006. The fact that it is a mistake that many others have made before him did not make it any easier for me to hear when he told me what he had done. But he did tell me. And we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made somewhat easier with my diagnosis in March of 2007. This was our private matter, and I frankly wanted it to be private because as painful as it was I did not want to have to play it out on a public stage as well. Because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter could no longer be wholly private.

The pain of the long journey since 2006 was about to be renewed.

John has spoken in a long on-camera interview I hope you watch. Admitting one’s mistakes is a hard thing for anyone to do, and I am proud of the courage John showed by his honesty in the face of shame. The toll on our family of news helicopters over our house and reporters in our driveway is yet unknown. But now the truth is out, and the repair work that began in 2006 will continue. I ask that the public, who expressed concern about the harm John’s conduct has done to us, think also about the real harm that the present voyeurism does and give me and my family the privacy we need at this time.

I have no respect for Elizabeth Edwards or John Edwards. I hope she just passes quietly and he never goes anywhere in public office. Enough with the LYING. He lied and lied about not having a relationship all the way back starting in Oct 2007 and according to Bob Schieffer Elizabeth knew about this relationship before he even decided to try to be the dem nominee this time around.

Okay, so now I understand. She's an apologist and he's a lying adulterer. Good for them but I have no patience with these type of scum anymore. She doesn't have the guts to leave the prick and defends him and sticks with him all the while he betrays her, their kids and the marriage which means absolutely nothing to him.

As for this "love child" how about he submit to a paternity test and prove it once and for all because I'm pretty confident he's lying about that too. Every single word he says has no meaning or trust or believability from this point forward. Enough of it already! We've got to stop giving sick perverts with no morality a pass just Because they are politicians with drive and passion.

Enough already with this twilight zone logic.

why?

Hey! Don't go applying life experience to this situation!

I think it has enough legal consequences on its own.