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Another Perspective
Private Edwards’ Court-Marital
Who is without sin…
Who among us
Is free of fungus?
— Ogden Nash
When attraction is physical,
& the attitude is whimsical
& the background is musical,
The rationales become flimsical.
— Shel Silverstein
Who was the genius who thought it a good idea to prosecute former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards in open court? If he is elected, tell his next opponent he can count on my vote. If he is appointed, tell him to… tell him I will… er, be disappointed.
Senator Edwards, we recall, was a contender in the Democrat primaries in 2004, itching to face off with incumbent George W. Bush. He had made millions as a particularly smarmy personal injury lawyer, who somehow convinced juries that the delivering obstetricians were responsible for children being born with cerebral palsy. His sleaziest escapade was a closing argument in which he claimed that the spirit of a dead child had appeared to him and implored him to seek justice on her behalf.
His handsome hucksterism hoisted him to the United States Senate from North Carolina. The next inevitable step was the Presidency.
Or maybe not. The public wasn’t buying it in enough volume and John Kerry became the nominee. Still, Edwards parlayed that adventure into a real piece of history, the kind of thing you can tell your grandchildren proudly about if they are still talking to you. He was chosen by Kerry as a running-mate and he managed to carry the mission off with some aplomb, even doing credibly in debate against one of the most knowledgeable men in political life, Dick Cheney.
Fast forward to 2008. Edwards figured that vying for Veep last time gave him the inside track this time in the Presidential primary. His wife, Elizabeth, began a second bout with cancer and that recurrence did not bode well. Still, the two appeared together to announce they would soldier bravely on. The poor of America deserved no less. While Edwards was fleecing feckless medicos, he had noticed that there were Two Americas, and while he parked his ailing wife comfortably in the plush mansions of the first he headed quixotically over to polish the rails on the wrong side of the tracks.
Later it came out that he was conducting an extramarital affair during the campaign, a dalliance which produced a daughter. As part of an elaborate scheme to cover his tracks (still on the wrong side of the inside track) he wound up collecting hush money from backers, which were reported as campaign donations and campaign expenditures. Now the government is trying him for this supposed malfeasance, with each day bringing more lurid and sordid sensationalism.
Well, they are trying my patience too. I do not want to hear about the yucky details of messy liaisons. First of all, we are all human and let’s not pretend otherwise. Even in the best marriages, well-intentioned people can falter when away from home and under high pressure. If every book about promoting happy marriages advises people to minimize separate travel, that is because it is healthier not to subject oneself to temptation. When we create a campaign system that sentences participants to nonstop wandering from state to state and city to city, we should at least be aware that it is a tough test of character.
Secondly, this situation is a very solemn sacrament on the altar of human matrimony. Many of us may be in this position at some point. A spouse is dying in a physically disintegrative way and the moral code asks us to honor their travail by practicing celibacy. God and society may be justified in calling us to this standard, but it takes a callous heart indeed to judge harshly one who falls from the pinnacle.
In fact, there is no indication that Edwards was flippantly trolling for companionship in the Kennedyesque or Clintonian fashion — or Hardingesque, to be bipartisan. This was something that just happened and it was handled fairly discreetly. They had the courage to keep the child, too. I know all this is more wrong than right but this was far from a carnival of pure evil that needs to be shamed in the public square.
Folks of my political persuasion like to define the preference for more freedom and less government as “conservative” although these views are liberating by definition, “conserving” a Constitution which is a radical departure from world history. Still, the instinct to conserve and to protect should apply to keeping private failings like these out of the spotlight.
It may well be that he used donors’ money instead of his not because he was a cheapskate or a crook but because he could not spend large sums without accounting to his wife. A reasonable strategy for the government in this case would have been to make Edwards pay restitution and leave it at that. Instead we are all clucking like hens and gossiping like geese. Shame on us!
As for me, yes I lied. It was I who wrote the doggerel above, not Ogden Nash or Shel Silverstein. But Nash did write this:
One would be in less danger
From the wiles of a stranger
If one’s own kin and kith
Were more fun to be with.
And Silverstein did write this:
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there on the overstuffed chair…
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or —
Huh? You say it’s mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!
About the Author
Jay D. Homnick, commentator and humorist, is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator. He also writes for Human Events. Here he speaks at the Rally for Religious Freedom in Miami on June 8, 2012.
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jd| 5.4.12 @ 6:23AM
There are many repulsive characters in this saga. The kooky, New Age touting mistress, the 101-year-old benefactor who has to be senile for how she spends her money, the "saintly" Elizabeth, the wife of the main character in all of this: a totally self-absorbed, lying, cheating, liberal trial lawyer who tried to pull off one of the biggest scams on the American people (not including the big O). My feelings are that when Elizabeth first found out about the affair, she was complicit in covering up her husband's affair because what she really, really wanted was POWER, the power of the presidency. It was only after the National Enquirer -- of all papers! -- broke the story did we then see the true character of John Edwards. He deserves more punishment then just paying "restitution". The worst punishment for this man, save sharing a jail cell, is having PUBLIC HUMILIATION.
TLP| 5.4.12 @ 9:18AM
At least he has proved to be somewhat of a Human Self Fullfilling Prophecy, of sorts.
We can clearly see, now, what he meant when he said that: "We live in Two Americas".
Obviously he was talking about One America, where people Honour their Wedding Vows, their Wives, and the Sanctity of Family.
And, a Second one, where he lives next door to Bill Clinton.
Alan Brooks| 5.5.12 @ 10:33PM
"the kind of thing you can tell your grandchildren proudly about if they are still talking to you."
Good point- they might not talk to you when they realize how you have messed it up since '89. Perhaps they'll worry you will ship them off to Afghanistan someday.. if we are still there.
Mike Hawk| 5.4.12 @ 6:48AM
"The next inevitable step was the Presidency."
Disabuse yourself of that notion. Senators think so, but aside from running they rarely get elected. The Senate is not the hatching ground for Presidents. It is the broodhouse for inflated egos.
Crassus| 5.4.12 @ 9:50AM
Tell all that to the current White House occupant.
Mike Hawk| 5.4.12 @ 3:29PM
He's the exception to the rule. Name all the others if you can. Being that both candidates the last time were sitting Senators what would you get?? I didn't want either.
Minuteman78| 5.4.12 @ 10:02AM
The current White House occupant being a stellar example of that.
Skippy| 5.5.12 @ 7:11PM
Nash:
"In the world of mules, there are no rules."
"People riding on the Metro. Some are Homo, most are Hetero."
Appleby| 5.4.12 @ 7:13AM
The only stop on the Men Are Not Responsible For Anything They Do express that this Whine didn't hit is the one named Girls Are To Blame.
Maybe all the men in HIS crowd believe sincerely that a man has to have sex every day or he'll DIE, but millions of men with dying wives (not to mention millions of priests, deacons, bishops and cardinals, and generations of Popes) know that there are in fact some things in life that are stronger, deeper and more important than what the kid in The Clockwork Orange termed "the old in-out-in-out." John Edwards is as much a symbol of his generation as the Occupiers are ... a generation liberally seeded with whining babies whose universe centres around their wee-wees. This is why prime time television is liberally supported by medical panaceas for the Pandemic That Unfortunately Isn't Afraid to Speak Its Name: the epidemic of the droopy wee-wee.
I agree that we don't need to see this sordid trial on TeeVee, and indeed millions upon millions of us are NOT seeing it. However, if you take a quick tour through Prime Time Network and Cable, you'll discover that virtually everything on offer touts this view of mankind as a sex-obsessed fifteen year old who giggles when somebody says a word that vaguely resembles a body part. ("Ooh, he said BUNS!")
In fact, as I have said before, it's all right there in Brave New World. Read that chapter (or get an audio book to read it to you) in which Mustapha Mond explains to John Savage exactly what the principles are that founded that Brave New World. It's all right there in black and white, plain English, words of one syllable -- and it's just what you'll see and hear everywhere, all day long.
Jeremiah Smirking| 5.4.12 @ 8:02AM
Right on Appleby. Sounds like Jay's doing a bit of projection about adultery. Ye verily, the path to self-mastery lies in Catholicism.
KW-37| 5.4.12 @ 8:25AM
Ye verily, plenty of us heathen protestants don't cheat either.
John Navratil| 5.4.12 @ 9:51AM
I'm with you Appleby, but may I add...
The trial is about the violation of campaign laws, not the sordid activities. Homnick proclaims that campaign contributions were made and were used improperly. Others have claimed that "Bunny" what's-her-name gave the money outside of the campaign and outside the purview of the law.
The court shall determine whether or not Edwards violated those laws. His boorish behaviour is beyond that law and he has (in this world) been judged.
Marsha| 5.4.12 @ 7:25AM
So it is okay to lie and cover up because a man has an affair when away from his wife? And it is okay then to simply make restitution for stealing money from people because a man does not want his wife to find out he has a love child? The author's character apparently is similar to Mr. Edwards. This man could have been VP, if not P. Pitifully low character for both.
Marco2| 5.4.12 @ 7:59AM
How many years in prison can this a-hole get? Not enough, let's double it!
JT| 5.4.12 @ 8:08AM
This whole sorted affair is like trying to choose which turd amongst a group of turds in one particular toilet is the best turd. Solution?
Flush it and clean the bowl. Edwards is the definition of oily and slimy, anything for power and money.
Mike Hawk| 5.4.12 @ 3:30PM
That would be 'sordid'.
JT| 5.4.12 @ 6:52PM
I stand corrected.
Louis Jenkins| 5.5.12 @ 12:09PM
Dear JT:
Which end of the turd do you pick it up by? The clean end?
GKE| 5.4.12 @ 8:32AM
Only a man could write this slop. What about the marriage vow - in sickness and in health? And blaming Elizabeth if he did in fact use donors money so she wouldn't question where all the $$ was going tops it all!!
gene| 5.4.12 @ 8:33AM
Okay for Johnson
Okay for JFK
Okay for Clinton
Okay for Jessie Jackson
Not okay for Edwards? I do not like the man.
I like UN-level playing fields even less.
Dick Nome| 5.4.12 @ 3:24PM
Not OK for any of those dirtballs.
Bubba T. | 5.4.12 @ 8:54AM
Actually, the entire Edwards liaison (i.e. "Me and Mrs. Jones") could have been uncovered, confronted and settled in about seven or eight days with a quick call to Joey Greco at Cheaters. I realize the media can work wonders in the post production/edit room (credit: Dan Rather/ Bushgate '08), but I've seen that crew open and and close two cases in just under fifty-one minutes, give or take.
Thoughts?
albert constantine jr.| 5.5.12 @ 9:29PM
A quick correction...
Dan Rather's memogate was in 2004.
WeeWillie| 5.4.12 @ 9:54AM
It appears that all involved were voluntary participants. Why should there be a trial? Other than Karma, this trial serves no useful purpose and wastes our money.
John Navratil| 5.4.12 @ 12:58PM
WeeWillie,
When I give money to a candidate, I expect it to be used to advance his candidacy and not for other unrelated expenses. Travel, staff, etc. are legitimate; keeping a mistress is not. The regulations (which may well be flawed, themselves) are in place so that you and I can have some assurances that our money is spent according to our wish to help the candidacy of the man. If these laws were broken, this trial serves a very useful purpose. Only if we know the outcome in advance would this be a waste of money. We must all assume the prosecutor is sure of his case and this is not a bad-faith prosecution. I do, however, think it quite possible than no campaign laws were broken.
TURK| 5.4.12 @ 10:04AM
JAY
As one who took great umbrage with your R E Lee article eons ago, wherein you stooped to answer me directly, I continue to enjoy your great pieces.
Court Martial' is a gem, even though I am a Conservative lawyer/AF aviator who bordered on vomit every time Edwards opened his mouth. I heartily agree with your thrust.
DatsunMark| 5.4.12 @ 10:58AM
Jay, "They had the courage to keep the child," ?? You got to be kidding me. Courage?
Edwards would be the first guy piling on if a Republican Senator had did this...he reaps what he sows (also a pun about scattering his seed).
bob alou| 5.4.12 @ 11:10AM
Well Bob, You can explain smarmy all you want to, yes we are all human and the pressures of life make us susceptible, but it's still smarmy and Edwards deserves no sympathy.
bob alou| 5.4.12 @ 11:31AM
Forgive me "Bob", my remarks were for Jay.
claudiaMonteverdi| 5.4.12 @ 12:34PM
Oh Jay....Jay...Jay...
It matters little that I completely agree with all of your posits..who cares?
What does matter is that your thesis is just plain BRILLIANT....NOBEL WORDS..
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Claudia
PS: BRILLIANT!
Joe D.| 5.4.12 @ 12:49PM
Mr. Homnick, I think you are wrong on 2 issues if I understand you correctly. First, these type of relationships should be spotlighted. They show someones character in the closes relationship they will ever have. If we can not trust them in that, well. And we want the highest character in the highest office in the land. Not everyone is like Edwards.
The second thing is he is being tried for the cover up. That included fraud and misapproprietion of funds. That is very wrong and should be punished. That is protection of our money (the public). If we can not trust them with that, then we should not give to there cause and trust them with our taxes.
fmm| 5.4.12 @ 1:07PM
From the author's narrative, it seems he must have lots to hide.
Rex| 5.4.12 @ 1:21PM
I don't feel bad for enjoying watching this guy squirm. No shame here. He acted like a d-bag and is reaping his rewards.
Ken| 5.4.12 @ 3:47PM
It's not too often you see a swarmy politician get exactly what he deserves so I'll shed no tears for this jerk.
Emil Blatz| 5.4.12 @ 2:48PM
I too am puzzled by the sympathy for Edwards. He is a miserable POS, and I'm willing to let a jury sort this out.
Mary| 5.4.12 @ 3:26PM
This whole sordid episode is more an illustration of the Lamestream media and ther selective coverage of 'their' candidates. That is why this needs to be unveiled in lurid detail if only to prove the media has a double standard of extreme partisanship.
Mike Hawk| 5.4.12 @ 3:26PM
The first time I saw Edwards with a wad of gum in his wide open mouth making noises like a bowl of Rice Krispies I knew he was a low class low life clod.
Drunken Sailor| 5.4.12 @ 3:50PM
Guess I have a callous heart then because I consider what he did pathetic. Sorry but if you make the commitment of marriage and your spouse is keeping their end but has a terminal disease, you are not excused from your committment. Save the song and dance of "I was lonely and needed companionship" for somebody else. Get a dog. Face it, he acted in self interest only. Going without sex while your spouse is dying is not that great a sacrifice.
yvonne| 5.4.12 @ 5:26PM
Couldn't even read the whole article. Are you excusing Edwards because his wife was dying of cancer, therefore an affair was justified? Baloney. And that's why I quit reading.
Nite| 5.4.12 @ 7:20PM
Glad Edwards did not become the nominee. He is a self serving jerk who engaged in adultery while his wife was dying of cancer. I hope he goes to jail for a long time.
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Dave| 5.4.12 @ 8:36PM
While I agree with Mr. Homnick that some activities should remain private, I am certainly enjoying seeing this poseur being revealed for the liar and phony he has always been.
Anthony M| 5.4.12 @ 10:02PM
Jay is right. We should all decry adultery, but a little more letting "he who is without sin" cast the first stone is probably the best route to take.
RAN| 5.5.12 @ 8:17AM
When running for high office in our land and getting Secret Service protection, when getting to fly abroad at the cost of $millions$ to taxpayers for countless junkets and photo-ops, when knowing that getting it on with the blonde bimbo compromises you to USSR/Russia/KGB/NVB/Chinese, Cuban, Korean, Iranian, and even Israeli intelligence.....you just want to make this Edwards scandal on the same level as salesman Fred at the local used Ford car lot who has been unfaithful to his wife?
How many careers did an Edwards enhance? How many careers did an Edwards demolish? How many votes did Edwards cast in Washington, D.C. when his obvious priorities were his next sexual dalliance? Or feverishly working to cover it up? How many U.S. military troops have died or been severely wounded due to votes Edwards has made? Maybe Edwards was more distracted at the time of these votes, debates, decisions, press releases, maybe more distracted by his newly acquired STDs? Or severly distracted because of the news of a "love child" that we'll never know about because it has long ago been aborted? (and the "lover" paid off by hush monies....monies obtained ONLY in above-board fashion in the John Edwards careers)
You think Ms. R. Hunter is just....just the only one? (obviously Homnick does too.) If so, you are beyond stupid. And Homnick is beyond stupid.
You seem to have no brain. A sitting president of the United States from North Carolina who campaigned on moral values, integrity, values, obtained countless church leaders' endorsements, spoke from pulpits across the land while campaigning, yes, yes, all of that. Meanwhile in the first year of his presidency, a Russian ambassador wishes a word with the new president at the White House. Only problem is that a Chinese agent, er, high ranking diplomat from Peking, has arrived a week earlier on the White House itinerary and already gotten in the first big extortion....
Yes, yes. This is just simply common, everyday, Bumpkinville, USA adultery....No different than Fred at the local rundown Ford dealership....
Thom Of WI | 5.4.12 @ 11:51PM
So many elected officials lie there way through their careers, it is so refreshing to see this low life get the humiliation and hopefully punishment that he so much deserves. This is a perfect time to re-state, "No one is above the law, not even those who make them".
Bad piece - lousy author| 5.5.12 @ 7:54AM
How about Sen. (or is it "Sin?") John Schuckster Edwards asking a male assistant and "confidant" to behave as if the bimbo was his mistress and the "love child" (in real English -- the adultery child, a bastard) was also his. And then trying to smooth over this with his male married assistant with more $$. Campaign $$? Maybe some of it presidential campaign money? Any of this federal matching funds? I think that there are probably lots of questions to be asked and lots to uncover. See....Americans know our politicians are all (with only about 3% exceptions) fools and complete deceivers. But we at least expect campaign money to be for the campaign and not for 5-start hotel suites for sexual liasons, bribing others to be tight-lipped (say no evil, see know evil, although there is plenty of evil), and bribing the bimbo to be mum.
Homnick is way off here.
There are laws violated here.
Anybody playing this fast and loose has violated laws.
So...anyone campaigning can freely use the money donated to the campaign to hire his own personal mistress, aka prostitute? Oh, that's right, she's the new videographer....
I guess this is not a crime, but it sure is worse than one: See, this real, living, breathing child of Edwards is one more child in this world that is completely disadvantaged from conception. This child is now 4 and already knows life sucks. It will only be worse for this child at 14, 24, 34.... (FYI: same as the Arnold Schwarzenegger child)
P.S. Didn't John Whatishisname E. from NC tell us that he'd be spending all his time (once he'd formally ended his bid for the White House in spring of 2008 -- only because this bimbo eruption scandal was about to hit the airwaves coast to coast), didn't he tell us mid April 2008 he'd be spending all of his waking moments helping to personally rebuild places like New Orleans hit by Katrina?
Orange jump suit for Johnny| 5.5.12 @ 8:48AM
J. Homnick wrote, "Instead we are all clucking like hens and gossiping like geese. Shame on us!"
No, shame on you.
Couldn't care less about any gossip.
I care about facts. As do most Americans who look on this in complete disgust.
I want to know if laws were violated. Surely, like all other aspects of American life, a campaign for the U.S. presidency is waist deep in reams and reams of laws.
Not one word in Homnick's drivel above (worst American Spectator article of the whole week -- Ogden Nash? Silverstein? Say what?) about abuse of campaign staff, deceit, possible briberies.
How about publicly funded (Taxpayers!) law enforcement possibly improperly used to aid the cover ups? State(s) and FBI? Bribing local and national media to sit on the story, to not run it? To make it go away? (with campaign money) Plane flights? The safe house/hidden house/hotel? Bribing those who medically saw Riell Hunter so they would not ask too many questions? Or speak out? Maybe Edwards had to resort to blackmail or extortion to ensure the silence and aid of his campaign inner circle or his Washington, D.C. senatorial staff? He wanted one staffer to claim that the staffer was the one sleeping with Hunter and the resulting baby was his adulterous child.
If there is a good prosecution team at work here and a good DA, I bet even the fancy six figure Edwards '08 campaign accountants will not be able to hide that campaign finance and campaign laws were broken.
Maybe this is why campaigns always seem to blow through so much money so fast. Have to spread money around for the sexual appetites on the campaign trail and then for the coverups.
Mike Hawk| 5.5.12 @ 8:51AM
Just for you Edwards jockstraps, he is being prosecuted for a blatant violation of campaign finance law (whether you agree with the law or not), not the crass unethical behavior. Just as Clinton was impeached for perjury, not getting a BJ.
Gus| 5.5.12 @ 10:51AM
So M. Hawk, is that comment earlier today directed at the author, J. Homnick?
I see that a solid dozen of those who've posted above get it. They refer to concerns about campaign finance and campaign money misuse. One goes so far as to say that a prosecutor must have good evidence of this and a judge must have already determined sufficient cause based on evidence.
I think people get it (with the exception of the author); this is not about moral turpitude, this is about potentially having broken U.S. campaign laws, encouraging others to do so, directing others to do so, and then steps to cover this up -- which involves deceit and lying about it.
Who do you think does not get this?
Simon Templar| 5.5.12 @ 11:07AM
This is not a case of just one mistake or a slip in judgment. The author needs to sit down and decide exactly what his values are and evaluate the entire character and story of this man without picking and choosing.
Discernment not judgmentalism is needed here.
People do need to be accountable for their choices and the manner in which they deal with them also.
Simon Templar| 5.5.12 @ 11:14AM
Since when is crass unethical behavior acceptable in an elected representative of a Republic and a private matter? Clucking and gossiping?
The more I think about this article the more I get pissed actually.
Homnick, you are a good example of the cultural rot that is taking hold of this nation. This is not a question of clucking or gossiping but rather of question of public deception and possible law breaking.
Louis Jenkins| 5.5.12 @ 12:17PM
Dear old John Edwards is getting what he deserves. Campaign funds should be reserved for campaigning, not the keeping of a mistress, nor for the keeping of the "love child." Most of us knew he was a fake from day one (the day he started running for Senator). And North Carolina voters elected the miserable speck? His house was a mansion, and near the miserable town of Chapel Hill, the hot bed of liberalism for the state. And now he finds himself the center of a trial for using his campaign funding in an illicit manner. Too bad. He's a creep. He needs to receive the full administration of the law. And to those voters who supported him in the beginning? Cast not your pearls before swine. Election to high positions is a precious thing.
Charles Van Dorn| 5.5.12 @ 2:21PM
What all this proves is that EDWARDS is a PIKER. Although he has MILLIONS of his own, gleaned from sleezy court performances, he used other people's money to pay off his Bimbo! This is a classic Liberal Socialist attitude: Use OTHER peoples money for your shady and underhanded deals. Edwards deserves to go to jail for a long long time, but he gets a pass in the end.
Stuart Koehl| 5.5.12 @ 3:36PM
It's not the adultery, it's the bribery and corruption. Hommick seems to have lost sight of the crime in his frantic attempt to excuse the sin.
Occam's Tool| 5.7.12 @ 3:07AM
Gotta say, watching a Malpractice Plaintiff attorney squirm like this gives me much emotional satisfaction.
Him going to prison and being boofed would give me even more. He won some cases he deserved to lose, and cheated on his sick wife (my wife has had two malignancies, and I did not cheat on her, and yes I had offers). He deserves everything he gets, and I hope it hurts like hell.
E.G. Real Life| 5.5.12 @ 5:49PM
We do live in a weird country, do we not? A soldier or officer in the military committing even just one small act of adultery may indeed see loss of all rank, loss of position, loss of money, public ridicule, almost no real defense attorney (meaningful, professional) assistance, felon status (for life), dishonorable discharge, and years in a place like Leavenworth.
A man like John Edwards can commit adultery multiple times with the same woman (and, let's be honest here, folks, there were other women -- a 54 year old man like Edwards in 2008 -- WHILE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL WITH "WATCHDOG" MEDIA TALING HIS ASS AROUND!!!??? -- doesn't just all of a sudden just start going off the reservation) WHILE running for president of the United States (maybe while still receiving some federal level protections as a U.S. Senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate).....
and we are unconcerned about it. In fact, more than this, we are lambasted if we express even slight concerns about adultery, infidelity, lying, deceit, threats, money "mismanagement,".....
No crimes these?
(Claiming to be a GOOD! family man in all of your glossy, full color campaign adds for the last, oh, 20 years? Who paid for this false advertising over the decades?)
A poster above asks how a U.S. Senator can have a top clearance for all manner of sensitive materials placed before the Congress for years....while living this lifestyle. [If you don't believe there are many foreign agents in Washington, D.C. ready to exploit this kind of male human weakness in a U.S. Senator, well, stop reading. Stop coming to this site. Turn in your computer; donate it to charity. And, please, just stop breathing -- you've squandered the brain God's given you.]
One act of carnal knowledge can put a man in the military away as a felon for an absolute minimum of a year....dishonorable discharge. Scarred and marred for life. The rest of life as a "convict."
A U.S. Senator can have an ongoing sexual relationship with a woman hired to look official (i.e. a hired prostitute), still do photops with his wife, get staff to lie for him, force staff to make arrangements for him, maybe? bribe media to stay silent, try to force a staffer (and that staffer's wife) to accept the adulteress as his own.....
And guys like Homnick say to all of this -- "Hey! No problem!"
Guess Homnick never had a buddy falsely accused to be the fall guy in a UCMJ travesty.
Ever see the kinds of hoops military units in North Carolina jump through when a polished, dandy pol like John Edwards comes sweeping through? Whether Reserves, Guard, or active duty, whether in the Tarheel State or when abroad in former Yugoslavia, in Iraq, in Afghanistan....the whole 9 yards and then some of silky red carpet is laid out for the U.S. Senatorial Princeling. He might as well almost be the Commander in Chief, heck, U.S. Senators might have even much more sway over in-state units like these.
I guess guys like Homnick never had the real world pressures of jumping through umpteen hoops for U.S. Senators like Edwards who just love(d) to be catered to -- and remind you over and over of their control of big influence, big money, big ties to corporate America, big decision-makers. U.S. Senators love to let you know that they control what will happen -- their vote is the decider on that new aircraft carrier, that new military port, that new airwing, that 20+ years BILLIONS contract with Boeing or McDonnell-Douglas or Raytheon
John Edwards - adultery = no big deal.
You -- adultery = loss of your life, eternal shame
If this were your brother (who never had a chance to make millions of $$ while extorting judges in massive tort cases), your brother who was formerly a sergeant in the U.S. military or a former ensign in the U.S. Navy, well, he'd be in the brig now. The long-term brig. Penniless. Lost. Alone. Rejected. Completely dishonored. And labeled for life "convict."
POST American| 5.6.12 @ 1:40AM
-----AGAIN!
One and ALL ---MUST CHECK OUT!
'Clash of Civilizations' pt 2
RED Ice Radio interview
with JAY WEIDNER
(available thru Yahoo videos
sorted by date)
------The DEEP and PROFOUND
spiritual, ideological and even ritual
links between Luciferian 'MAY--SIN--re'
in ALLLL its guises (Scot Rite to Jesuitry)
and ----ISLAM!
He lays out in scholarly and stunning fashion
the connections, and relevance thereof.
"the NEO--Cons are just bunch of
Trotskyists who realized Marx was wrong.
Their (--EUGENICS--) NWO could NOT be
brought in without a religious component.
---ISLAM is to provide that."
'CON--sider' briefly,
----the occult cabals, their rituals, their
obsession with inbreeding and even incest,
the sodom tones, working covertly by such
instruments as assasination, and organized
around symbols and 'hidden masters'.
'CON---sider'
This is NOWHERE to be found in
scriptural, genuine Christianity --or the
GENUINE Torah.
--This is ALLLLLLL over the place in the
legacy and lore of ISLAM. ------EVERYWHERE!
Even 'Rockefeller--meds' addled 'ID--iots'
should be able to see this one.
And so ISLAM is to be used, full spectrum,
to forment CON--flict, 'CULL-chore--ALLLL'
takedown of the west, destruction of ALLLLL
USURY and EUGENICS 'unfriendly'
Christianity --and even Torah Judaism
---which will bring on the old, standard 'fave'
'CON--trolled' 'K---OZ'.
-----ISLAM! -----'I------SLAM!'
BUT OF COURSE!
--and there's MORE!
As you munch your GMO cancer sterilant
nacho chips ----direct from the capstone
labs of Gates--Mosanto
---'CON--sider' further --with time!
--MASSSSSS --'CON--versions' to ISLAM
in Europe ---Latin America ---even China!
--------------EVEN AMERICA!
AS the average Joe and Jane are 'progessively'
alienated away from our Rockefeller-rotten,
'Clergy Response' churches -----and the
political indoctrination, sodomy and abortion
ops thereof -------ISLAM delivers its siren call!
---A slave religion ---by slaves ---OF SLAVES
---that thrives in prisons.
OF COURSE!
Afterall, there's ----some--thing
of the Law of Moses to be unflinchingly
found in ISLAM.
This could and, dare we say? ---WILL
become increasingly alluring.
It might also be mentioned, even now,
in capstone 'CON--trolled' media and
Hollywood, that disturbingly 'peculiar' aspect of ISLAM
---INTER--generational sex---- is being slyly
programmed for acclimation --and
'FEW--chore' 'CULL-chore--ALL"
-----domestication.
"--They move by signs."
And SO they do.
CATCH the dishonoring and takedown
and virtual occupation of Greece, Italy,
Spain by the Globalist USURY-EUGENICS
cabal.
CATCH also, the western backed 'RA--dick--ALL
--ization' underway across the Mediterranean
mid east, with special emphasis
on the very Mecca of capstone creep--dom
------------------'E--jipped'--------------------.
"--I've been there! Anyone who thinks
this is some kind of liberal empowerment
campaign --ARE NUTS! They are radical.
'Convert or DIE!' --They want nothing less
that to restore the Caliphate ---thru Egypt."
And AGAIN, none other than sitting justice
Ginzburg chooses Egypt for the site of her
symbolic act of ANTI-Consitution TREASON.
The figure and signs are --CLEAR!
Again, capstone creep-dom moves by signs.
----A mark of CAIN if you will.
The West is being dishonored unto destruction
and overrun.
The sterilization program and demographics
are well known and undeniable --even
chirpily promoted by the 'press--TIT--toots'.
'CON---trolled' demolition 'by degrees'
------is CLEARLY the plan, CLEARLY
underway.
ISLAM is being used to generate 'CON--flict'
and further demolition.
--With its endless equivocations, dry rot,
Rockefeller corruption and 'Clergy Response'
'CALM--PLY---ANTS' our 'churches',
after perhaps seeing us into FEMA camps,
----are to be tossed aside.
ISLAM also, with its fanatic notions of
martyrdom, could be 'massaged' into
promoting the world DEMOCIDE agenda
under some spiritual auspices.
---SURELY ---SURELY
AGAIN, ---check out that interview!
GET IT TO EVERYONE!
----for this is
the 11th hour of the CFR---RED China
handover, takedown, USURPATION,
OCCUPATION and ---FINAL--- EUGENICS
OP.
---ISLAM ---itself means ---'SIR---render!'
---------------It --IS! ---the PERFECT FIT!
----------------HUAC/ Nuremberg 2012---------------
albert constantine jr.| 5.6.12 @ 11:54AM
If Mr. Homnick wanted to impress me with the poetry of Shel Silverstein, he should have gone with “A Boy Named Sue” (though as a former denizen of many a US based Irish pub, I am quite familiar with “The Unicorn” as well). The sad truth, though, is I never felt that he was anything but a quirky individual with a mild gift for rhyme that usually exceeded the boundaries of good taste in a manner best appreciated by young teens just past adolescence who have yet to have their first real girlfriend.
Speaking of real girlfriends, if Mr. Homnick wished to create a meaningful parable about adultery, maybe he could have stuck with the New Testament. While it remains unspoken what Jesus was writing in the sand that caused the crowd of would-be stoners to disperse without putting the adulterous woman to death, it does not appear that that message has been captured here.
Any Schadenfreud I might be experiencing regarding Mr. Edwards’ current plight stems from an appreciation of the irony that as a lawmaker and an attorney, he helped pass the laws that he stands accused of violating, and prospered through sleazy litigation and now finds himself embroiled in same. That his potential campaign finance money laundering was allegedly undertaken to facilitate the coverup of a continuing adulterous relationship that produced a child with a former campaign worker only has significance in that that was the hook that caused the National Enquirer to uncover the story, as apparently other media outlets were unconcerned or unable to unearth the truth.
I thought John Edwards would have been the wrong leader for our country because of his positions and his professional past. Others have arrived at a similar conclusion due to distaste for his personal conduct.
As a result of this article, though, I currently hold Jay Homnick in less regard. See you rabbi and confess your sins, if that is what you feel the need to do. If you have something in common with John Edwards, I have no curiosity if it is not a criminal act, and I am certainly not interested in some rambling attempt at Clinton-like justification.
POST American| 5.7.12 @ 3:38AM
--------Tavistock soft-programming DIS-INFO-----
-------------------------ALERT!---------------------------
CON-fronted by the lame figure of
blow-drier w portfolio and w/o screw-pulls,
John Edwards -----BEWARE!
We smell psychic driving at the 'SIR--vice'
of INFO blur.
"----SIN is NEVER still. It is ALWAYS
linked, and ALWAYS on the move."
-Jonathan Edwards
(Calvinist)
1722
--------------DON'T let them unwittingly
CON--fuse you.
"--John Calvin was America's REAL
founding father."
-George Bancroft
America's FIRST historian emeritus
1832
---------Let the wonderful Johns ENDURE
un-mixed.
Blackgriffin| 5.7.12 @ 1:12PM
This entire article is one, long rationalization for adultery and the inevitable covering -up in which nothing is too low or immoral, if it's done in the name of CYA. Perhaps Mr. Homnick's spouse should be considering hiring a private investigator.
MorrowRosanna| 5.7.12 @ 7:05PM
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Occam's Tool| 5.14.12 @ 9:02PM
I love watching Edwards suffer. I hope it goes on for YEARS.