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John Edwards

Mike

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A Beverly Hills hotel security guard told FOXNews.com he intervened this week between a man he identified as former Sen. John Edwards and tabloid reporters who chased down the former presidential hopeful after what they're calling a rendezvous with his mistress and love child.

The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced Edwards — whom he did not immediately recognize — in a hotel men's room early Tuesday morning in a literal tug-of-war with reporters on the other side of the door.

"What are they saying about me?" the guard said Edwards asked.

"His face just went totally white," the guard said, when Edwards was told the reporters were shouting out questions about Edwards and Rielle Hunter, a woman the National Enquirer says is the mother of his child.

The guard said he escorted Edwards, who was not a registered guest at the hotel, out of the building after 2 a.m. Edwards did not say anything while he was escorted out, said the guard, adding that at times the reporters on the scene were "rough on him," sticking a camera in his face and shouting questions.

The guard did not recognize Edwards at the time of the incident, but said he concluded it was the 2008 presidential hopeful after hearing reports about the incident and finding an Enquirer reporter's notebook at the scene.

The guard said during the chase the reporters had dropped the notebook, which he picked up. "This book has everything in it on him," he said, referring to Edwards. The guard later confirmed Edwards' identity after being shown a photograph.

A former campaign staffer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told FOXNews.com he wishes he were "more surprised" to hear reports Edwards was visiting Hunter. "I'm definitely upset by it. I wish I was more surprised, though."

Edwards this week has repeatedly refused to comment on the Enquirer report. Asked about it on Thursday at an event in New Orleans, he said: "I have no idea what you're asking about. I've responded, consistently, to these tabloid allegations by saying I don't respond to these lies and you know that ... and I stand by that."

Edwards spokesmen did not respond to repeated calls by FOXNews.com to respond to this story.

Beverly Hills Police Sgt. Michael Publicker, meanwhile, confirmed Friday that an incident report was filed with the department by two of the tabloid's reporters. Publicker said that contrary to a published report, a "criminal complaint" was not filed and there are no charges pending.

"It will be looked into," Publicker said, refusing to say whether Edwards would be contacted as part of a formal investigation. "We're not going to comment on the investigation," he said.

Police department spokesman Tony Lee said Publicker told him that Edwards was not named on the incident report.

Enquirer Editor-in-Chief David Perel told FOXNews.com his reporters caught Edwards visiting Hunter and her baby at the hotel earlier Monday evening. Perel said Hunter and Edwards have been occasionally getting together so Edwards can see the baby. Hunter came to Beverly Hills with a male friend, Bob McGovern, said Perel. Hunter and her companion reportedly booked two rooms under McGovern's name, and McGovern picked up Edwards to bring him back to the hotel.

Perel said Enquirer staff had been given information about the planned Edwards-Hunter meeting, and the tabloid sent reporters to the hotel in anticipation of Edwards' arrival. According to the Enquirer, Edwards was first spotted being dropped off at the hotel at 9:45 p.m. PT, about 25 minutes after reporters watched McGovern leave the building in his BMW.

Edwards went to Hunter's room and the two left the hotel together and returned 45 minutes later, Perel said. Edwards reportedly entered her room and stayed there until after 2:30 a.m. PT.

FOXNews.com could not independently confirm the Enquirer's allegations. Perel also declined to identify where the Enquirer received the information about Edwards' alleged visits.

Perel told FOXNews.com that after leaving Hunter's room, Edwards took an elevator to the basement, where he was confronted by two Enquirer reporters. He ran into the bathroom, where he remained until the security guard arrived.

The Enquirer says it has videotape showing Hunter entering the room where she met Edwards, and shows Edwards leaving the same room. However, the Enquirer has thus far declined repeated requests by FOXNews.com to release any photographs or videotape evidence of the incident.

Lynda Simonetti, director of public relations at the Beverly Hilton, refused to comment on the guard's version of the incident, citing the hotel's privacy policy.

"We value the privacy of all the guests," Simonetti told FOXNews.com, adding, "The non-disclosure policy applies to the requests of the names, whether it's past, current or anticipated guests... That's our policy."

Simonetti said she had "no knowledge" of the incident report filed by the two Enquirer reporters, and "I don't have any knowledge of any other circumstances."

As recently as last month, individuals vetting vice presidential candidates for Barack Obama had listed Edwards as a potential running mate. Edwards was viewed as a candidate who could help Obama appeal to white, working-class voters who had favored Hillary Clinton in the primaries.

Edwards, who was John Kerry's running mate in 2004, endorsed Obama in May, saying the presumptive presidential nominee held the same views he did about uniting a divided America.

Before and during the Democratic primaries, Edwards urged all candidates to boycott planned debates on FOX News, even though he had made prior appearances on the channel. One of those debates was to be sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus.

Last October, the Enquirer reported that several sources said a former campaign worker on Edwards' campaign had been having an affair with the former North Carolina senator. In an e-mail allegedly written by Hunter to a friend, she wrote that she is "in love with John," but it's "difficult because he is married and has kids."

Edwards' wife Elizabeth, whom many have credited as being one of the driving forces behind Edwards' campaign, announced in March that her breast cancer had re-emerged after going into remission following a 2004 diagnosis.

Hunter has said that the father of her child is former Edwards campaign official Andrew Young. The 41-year-old married father of three has also said he is the father.
 

loomixguy

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Wonder why Old Whiner and the rest of the libs haven't jumped on Edwards to denounce this behavior? Maybe they condone it, or are secretly envious of a man with a mistress? You'd think someone with Edwards' kwarta could at least get a kibit that was hot.

You'd think Edwards being a mouthpiece and Whiner being a judge that Whiner would hold him on a pedestal, too. :?
 

aplusmnt

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I wonder if this will move him up the list of VP choices or down? With Liberals it really is hard to tell if this will help or hurt him? :?
 

fff

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If going after an old story in the Enquirer about a former Democratic presidential candidate is the best FOXNEWS can come up with, we're in pretty good shape. :D This falls right into the category of Obama's birth certificate: innuendo, lies, half lies, and more lies. I smell desperation in the air and it's not even August. :D
 

aplusmnt

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Probably a little smoke screen, to cover up the other Story in the news that involves John Edwards. The other story that the bias media is hardly covering.


Prominent Los Angeles attorney indicted in campaign contribution case

By Scott Glover, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 25, 2008

Attorney Pierce O'Donnell was indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Thursday on charges of funneling $26,000 in contributions to the campaign of a candidate in the 2004 presidential election through employees of his law firm and other people, according to the indictment.

O'Donnell, 61, is accused of soliciting employees and others to make the contributions and then reimbursing them.


Known as "conduit" contributions, such donations hide the identities of the true contributors and violate federal law, prosecutors said.

Though the name of the presidential candidate does not appear in the indictment, several sources familiar with the investigation said the contributions were made to the campaign of Democrat John Edwards.

O'Donnell is charged with three felonies and faces a maximum of 12 years in prison if convicted of all counts, according to prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.

Even before his indictment, O'Donnell's lawyers had questioned whether his prosecution was politically motivated.

The attorneys said he is an outspoken critic of the Bush administration and represents victims of Hurricane Katrina in a lawsuit against the government.

O'Donnell's lawyers had tried to persuade prosecutors the matter should be handled administratively by the Federal Elections Commission, as other, similar situations had, or be charged as a misdemeanor crime.


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-odonnell25-2008jul25,0,1609797.story
 

Larrry

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There were lots of stories about Edwards and his mistress long before this Enquirer story. It was always more or less a given just as it was a given about Monica. But no the mainstream press won't cover this much, gotta protect those liberal socialists at all costs.
 

Texan

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fff said:
If going after an old story in the Enquirer about a former Democratic presidential candidate is the best FOXNEWS can come up with, we're in pretty good shape. :D This falls right into the category of Obama's birth certificate: innuendo, lies, half lies, and more lies. I smell desperation in the air and it's not even August. :D

Bump. :D
 

fff

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Texan said:
fff said:
If going after an old story in the Enquirer about a former Democratic presidential candidate is the best FOXNEWS can come up with, we're in pretty good shape. :D This falls right into the category of Obama's birth certificate: innuendo, lies, half lies, and more lies. I smell desperation in the air and it's not even August. :D

Bump. :D

Still smell that desperation. Edwards is still not an elected official or a candidate for any office. Not that it would make any differenct to Republicans. Republicans lead the pack when it comes to sexual escapades: Mark Foley, David Vitter, Larry Craig, Newt Gingrich.....

And you guys want to talk about him instead of a $trillion Federal budget deficit or the Justice Department meltdown or the housing crisis, or how badly the Afghanistan war is going, or why Bin Laden hasn't been caught, or how more voters are registering as Democrats across the country, or health care reform, or oil company profits......

Republican Sex Scandals Dwarf Those of Democrats
Perspective by Tim King Salem-News.com
The sexual antics of President Bill Clinton have been a dangerous tool in the Republican campaign arsenal, used to the fullest possible extent, but what have they been up to all these years?

(SALEM, Ore.) - "He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones." It seems that old adage may be lost on the confused mass that we call modern society. The Grand Old Party, once known for controversial abolitionists, has become the moral party of today, or so their elected leaders will tell you.

As we evolve as a nation, too many people seem to be clinging to ideologies that make little sense, fighting against a woman's right to abortion while demanding that schools not teach children sex education or instruct them in the deadly virus, AIDS. It creates a vicious circle when we fight ourselves, and deny education to those who need it most.

Our nation spent more tax money conducting Ken Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, than they did in the investigation of the September 11th 2001 attacks on the United States. Many Americans fail to see the logic behind this.

Now Oregon's Governor stands at risk, as a right wing radio pundit named Lars Larson levels an accusation against Kulongoski that could mean he could not be a lawyer in Oregon again. Larson says that Kulongoski had the goods on Goldschmidt years ago. Sources are reporting that he could have known about what has become known as the Goldschmidt scandal, as early as 1994.

Kulongoski walked angrily out of a press conference Tuesday, after a TV reporter asked him about the former governor's involvement with the teenage babysitter.

Perhaps the Governor is guilty of having known something he didn't tell. He stated that he is not, but if he is, he may lose his right to have a license to practice law. That would be a real burn if you were Ted Kulongoski, and quite a feather in the cap of Lars Larson, no doubt about it.

As Lars Larson is totally political in his pursuits and ambitions, we thought it would be interesting to offer perspective by determining just how many Republican lawmakers and officials have endured similar scrutiny in recent years for sexual perversions, extramarital affairs, etc. It is a hard number to pinpoint, it just depends on the number of years you account for.

As a subject, it was important enough to see an impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, so fair seems fair.

Then we ran into a problem with the idea of naming these scandals and their Republican perpetrators; there are so many they would hardly fit on the page. Using data from "Moral Values," these citations are otherwise attributed to the original agencies. Here is a partial list of names of serious problems related to GOP movers and shakers.

The story continues and the list are at this link:
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october172007/repub_scandals_10_17_07.php
 

Texan

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fff said:
Still smell that desperation. Edwards is still not an elected official or a candidate for any office. Not that it would make any differenct to Republicans.

Still smell that desperation. The desperation to overlook an important fact - the fact that he was running for your party's nomination for the highest office in the land at the time - and lying his ass off.

Not that it would make any difference to Democrats. :lol:
 

fff

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Texan said:
fff said:
Still smell that desperation. Edwards is still not an elected official or a candidate for any office. Not that it would make any differenct to Republicans.

Still smell that desperation. The desperation to overlook an important fact - the fact that he was running for your party's nomination for the highest office in the land at the time - and lying his ass off.

Not that it would make any difference to Democrats. :lol:

There were several people running for the Democratic nomination. Maybe Biden, Dodd, Kucinich, Gravel, Richardson, Vilsack and a host of people you never heard were each having an affair. So what? Maybe Obama had an affair. That's not my problem, it's his wife's problem. Now the politicizing of the Justice Department, damaging our military, high cost of health care, job losses, those are problems that interest me. BTW, looking at the callous way McCain treated his first wife and the rude way he treats his current wife, Obama looks pretty good to me.
 

Texan

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fff said:
BTW, looking at the callous way McCain treated his first wife and the rude way he treats his current wife, Obama looks pretty good to me.
ANY Democrat would look good to you. Against ANY Republican. :lol:
 

fff

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Texan said:
fff said:
BTW, looking at the callous way McCain treated his first wife and the rude way he treats his current wife, Obama looks pretty good to me.
ANY Democrat would look good to you. Against ANY Republican. :lol:

Right now that might be true. But since my Republican choice is McCain, it's a lot easier. In my opinion, McCain is too old, he's not stable (and many Republicans agree), his treatment of both wives has been deplorable, his negative campaign, his sell out to big oil, breaking or at least stretching the campaign finance reform law he co-authored, his apparent lack of knowledge about how the world map has changed the last few years, his seemingly eagerness to get into another war, are just a few of the things that should make anyone hesitate to vote for him. Now in 2012 after the Dems have had Congress and the White House for four years, I might be willing to consider a Republican for some office. :)
 

fff

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Sandhusker said:
How did McCain sell out to big oil?

He was against off shore drilling and didn't get many campaign contributions from the oil companies. I think they were 12th in contributions to his campaign. Within a couple of weeks of his announcment that he was supporting off shore drilling, he got over a million dollars in donations from industries related to the oil business. I call that selling out.


Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to Sen. John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the senator from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his opposition to the federal ban on offshore drilling.

Story continued at this link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601891.html
 

Sandhusker

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You don't think he changed his stance when he realized that citizens want off-shore drilling by a 2-1 margin? You don't think that is a remote possibility?

Maybe you ought to check how much the Llama has gotten from oil before your start pointing fingers...
 
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As the votemaster notes-- McCain may be cussing old Edwards more than Dems are--because this brings "cheating on your ill wife" to the forefront- probably the reason for the times article I posted a link to in the other thread....Kind of ironic :wink:
I wonder if he'll answer this question the same way he answered the Preacher at the Townhall Meeting that asked him if he had really called his wife the "C" word
:???:

John Edwards has admitted having an affair with Rielle Hunter in 2006 but vehemently denies being the father of Hunter's child and is willing to take the necessary tests to prove it. Edwards' chances of being Obama's Veep kind of dropped a bit with this announcement. No doubt it will get a lot of play in the traditional media. It will be interesting to see if any enterprising reporter asks John McCain point blank: "Have you ever committed adultery?" It is a germane question because (1) Edwards adultery is big news and (2) McCain has made "moral character" the main issue of his campaign.

McCain may not be too keen to answer yes or no because the truth won't please the family values crowd. While he was a P.O.W. in Vietnam, his first wife, model Carol Shepp, was seriously injured in a horrific traffic accident in which she was thrown through the windshield. She didn't mention this in her letters to him in Vietnam to keep his morale up. When he got back and saw her 4 inches shorter, seriously overweight, and on crutches, he began having affairs. One piece of indisputable evidence is the fact that he obtained a license to marry wealthy beer heiress Cindy Hensley on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to Carol.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/
 

aplusmnt

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fff said:
There were several people running for the Democratic nomination. Maybe Biden, Dodd, Kucinich, Gravel, Richardson, Vilsack and a host of people you never heard were each having an affair. So what? Maybe Obama had an affair. That's not my problem, it's his wife's problem. Now the politicizing of the Justice Department, damaging our military, high cost of health care, job losses, those are problems that interest me. BTW, looking at the callous way McCain treated his first wife and the rude way he treats his current wife, Obama looks pretty good to me.

Correct me if I am wrong, I am tired and had long weekend in Branson and have no desire to search. But did you have a lot more concern when it came to talking about McCain and his past marital issues, even though they were decades ago and his wife had not problem with them. Seems maybe you even started a thread about them, but like I said I have no desire to search for it, so feel free to correct me if I am wrong!
 
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aplusmnt said:
fff said:
There were several people running for the Democratic nomination. Maybe Biden, Dodd, Kucinich, Gravel, Richardson, Vilsack and a host of people you never heard were each having an affair. So what? Maybe Obama had an affair. That's not my problem, it's his wife's problem. Now the politicizing of the Justice Department, damaging our military, high cost of health care, job losses, those are problems that interest me. BTW, looking at the callous way McCain treated his first wife and the rude way he treats his current wife, Obama looks pretty good to me.

Correct me if I am wrong, I am tired and had long weekend in Branson and have no desire to search. But did you have a lot more concern when it came to talking about McCain and his past marital issues, even though they were decades ago and his wife had not problem with them. Seems maybe you even started a thread about them, but like I said I have no desire to search for it, so feel free to correct me if I am wrong!

To me this goes a long way to show the character and credibility of McSame-- if he would lie and cheat to his crippled wife and kids to get what he wanted- what keeps him from lying and cheating on everything else, including to the American people...
And then to continue the lie even later when he wrote his book just further exemplifys and propogates it...

This also makes the stories circulating about his relationship with the female Lobbyist that was termed "as able to get anything she wanted from him" even more credible- that and the fact that the campaign folks from the last campaign admitted that they had to ask her to quit travelling with McCain on the campaign because it was causing too much talk...

To me- you don't teach an old dog new tricks (or break bad habits)- and this dog is older than dirt :wink:

Be interesting if more surfaces on that one...Something tells me the Dems might have a zinger or two to pull out of the playbook if things get too tight- and McCain already opened the dirty play book...

Like I said in an earlier post that Larrrry and Hoppy turned into an attack me instead-- I can't believe that a Party that puts itself out as being of such high morals and family values- can sit back and pooh-pooh this away....Could be the reason the Republican Party has lost so much respect in the eyes of many...

If he will break his sacred oath to his wife- and go behind her back, and then lie to her and the world about it---what kind of guarantee would we have that he would keep his oath to protect and defend the Constitution- or be truthful with the American people....

We just went thru one lying, cheating, law and oath breaking President- we sure don't need Bush #3....
 
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