Whar are your opinion on John Edwards Affair? ?

Question

I mean what is/are your opinion on John Edwards affair :)

Answer 1

Don't really have one.

His business is his business.

Answer 2

I see it as something that is not the publics' business and it is too bad that it had to come out the way it did and embarass his wife and kids.

I really liked him, and I find it really crappy that he cheated on his wife especially when she has cancer. I also think the comment he made about her cancer being in remission was so idiotic.

I just wish we didn't have to know about political peoples' s*x lives.

Answer 3

Why pick the ugly ho like bill clinton did

Answer 4

I'm disappointed with his actions, I thought he was above that sort of thing!  Guess we shouldn't be surprised, though, look at all who have done the same thing & had to eat crow before the public!

Answer 5

The following was Edwards' response to CBS News anchor Katie Couric's question about whether voters should care if a presidential candidate is faithful to his spouse:

"Of course. I mean, for a lot of Americans -- including the family that I grew up with, I mean, it's fundamental to how you judge people and human character -- whether you keep your word, whether you keep what is your ultimate word, which is that you love your spouse, and you'll stay with them. ... I think the most important qualities in a president in today's world are trustworthiness -- sincerity, honesty, strength of leadership. And -- and certainly that goes to a part of that."

The mainstream media's reaction to the National Enquirer's reports on John Edwards' "love child" scandal has been reminiscent of the Soviet press. Remember when the press raked Ted Haggard, Mel Gibson and Newt Gingrich over the coals? What a liberal hypocritical media we have!

His affair is horrible. He should be tarred and feathered.

Answer 6

That he is a piece of S**t.  I hope his wife divorces his a**.  I hope she lives to be a 100 and that she kicks him to the curb.  I think that is totally his kid and I think the mom is being pressured not to take a paternity test.  That's what I think    

Answer 7

Sad, very sad.  His family is his victim.  He got caught up by his ego.

In a way he was "Clinton Lite" - a lying hypocrite with a baby - something that Bubba Clinton mercifully did not create.

Both politicians should fade away and stay away.

I feel sorry for Elizabeth Edwards and her three children - two of which are still very young.

Answer 8

he's suchy a S****y, hoe bag.

Answer 9

John has messed up his future. maybe he can find a job at a car wash.

Answer 10

John Edwards affair should be JOHN EDWARDS affair. Not really something I really care to see on the 6 oclock news. Its bizarre what the media this is news. I mean I wouldnt want the entire nation to know if I had s*x. I dont think its right that the media blasts anyone else life like that.  

Answer 11

he's not the only man who's ever had an affair people, relax and leave him alone.  

Answer 12

The right time, the right place, 10,000 miles from home, a beautiful woman at his feet, a wife for 30 years at home that he is no longer sexually attracted to for what ever reason, maybe a lack of sexual desire. Most men under these circumstances would give in. Sorry,

but stats show that 60 percent of married men cheat on their wife's. If the truth hurts..

Whiskeyman, Moron is a term used for human beings, though, right?

Like homo sapiens sapiens . . . not,  . . . well I don't want to insult Neanderthals.

The scary thing to me is that "Whiskeyman" just might've bred.

Bless them if they didn't get the mutant genes, because it must have been h**l.

It’s so scary that "Whiskeyman" can procreate.

Answer 13

Everybody cheats, or thinks about cheating. We are a nation of sexually repressed hypocrites who can't mind our own business.

Answer 14

John McEdwards!

Answer 15

If he was running for Pope, or claimed to be holier than thou, I would be mad as h**l and call him a hypocrite. He didn't attack anyone else for their infidelity like Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston, Henry Hyde, David Vitter, Larry Craig or Ted Haggart just to mention a few.  The reason the right hates him so much is that he pointed out the greed of the rich and the corporations and how they have destroyed our country, buried us in dept and killed the middle class, but if they were concerned about adultery so much why weren't they so concerned about all of the above and then some of their own.  Sounds like a double standard to me.  With all the problems that have been created in the last eight years, what in the world are we talking about this for.

Answer 16

Irrelevant. Sad, but irrelevant. Just like every other adultry that happens in the world today....he is not a candidate for anything, nor does he hold any position in office.....just a guy who cheated on his wife.

Answer 17

John Edwards is a s**t and his wife is a s**t enabler.

Answer 18

If I understand the facts, he broke his faith with his own soul by breaching the beautiful contract of a marriage.  I would like to be able to put something positive in Mr. Edwards column.   All I can think to say is that I would not wish this outcome on the life of my worst enemy.  

Answer 19

I don't care about his affair, but the fact that he looked straight into a camera and said directly he did NOT have an affair made him lose ALL credibility.

Answer 20

besides the edwards family, who really cares? millions of people have an affair every day but it aint plastered all over the news

Answer 21

I think he is the one that fathered the baby. You can tell

Answer 22

Not shocking

I knew the guy was a scumbag from the first time I saw him.

Answer 23

Ah, once again Pappy shows his ignorance!  So in addition to being an ignorant Socialist you're also a cheater?  Nice.

Anyway, back to the question at hand:

We all make mistakes.  The trick is to:

1. Take ownership for our mistakes

2. Not repeat our mistakes

3. Make amends for our mistakes.

I think lying about the affair repeatedly for a year is NOT taking ownership (if he had truly already come clean with his wife why not just admit it at the start?)

I also think there's a strong possibility he's still lying about fathering the child.

I also think that when you're wife is dying on cancer you should have better things to do than cheating (which is never OK no matter how many miles from home you are).

If Edwards had come clean at the very beginning, withdrawn from the Presidential race, and clearly made efforts to show remorse, he may have been able to salvage his political career.  Instead he just looks like the scumbag that he is.

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To my friend "myk865" who answered above - All those other affairs aren't "plastered all over the news" because those people weren't running for President.   When you run for public office, you are automatically consenting for people to dig into your private life.  If you have skeletons in your closet, you had better come clean and have an honest strategy for dealing with the media aftermath.  Edwards is a public figure, and thus his affair is very relevant.