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The Spectacle Blog
It’s loathsome reading, but avid followers of the Democrats’ political corruption should check out the Wall Street Journal’s preview of Andrew Young’s forthcoming tell-all of former U.S. Senator John Edwards.
The book isn’t released until Tuesday, but reporters for the WSJ got a copy at a Washington, D.C., bookstore. The review includes about a dozen anecdotes from the book, including details about Edwards’ preferred brand of hair shampoo (to help with those $400 haircuts) and how he tried to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter.
One of the most odious excerpts:
Hunter’s pregnancy: According to Young, Hunter called him in May 2007 to say she was pregnant. Young says that when he informed Edwards, the senator told him to “handle it,” to which he replied: “I can’t handle this one.” Young writes that Edward unloaded on Hunter as a “crazy slut,” said they had an “open relationship,” and put his paternity chances at “one in three.” Young says that Edwards asked him for help persuading Hunter to have an abortion. Young writes that Hunter believed the baby to be “some kind of golden child, the reincarnated spirit of a Buddhist monk who was going to help save the world.”
The book’s content should be taken with a grain of salt, in my opinion. I don’t trust Young as far as I could punt him. Still, given the sordid details about Edwards’ political and personal life already known to be factual, anything is possible and nothing off the table.
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Mike| 1.27.10 @ 10:13AM
So, David, it appears that you have been assigned the job of distracting AmSpec viewer's attention from the latest antics of James O'Keefe.
Tammy| 1.27.10 @ 2:48PM
Um, O'Keefe's not running for POTUS--John Edwards was.
Who's the one who has really been assigned the job of distracting viewers? Nice try, though.
Tim| 1.27.10 @ 10:34AM
Nothing about Edwards would surprise me at this point.
danny| 1.27.10 @ 10:39AM
yeah mike thats what he's doing. you idiot.
S.L. Toddard| 1.27.10 @ 11:42AM
Oooh titillating gossip!!!
Tim| 1.27.10 @ 1:00PM
Take away tits and gossip and you have very little internet left.
Al Adab| 1.27.10 @ 11:49AM
For his child or retroactive for himself?
Red Phillips | 1.27.10 @ 12:25PM
This should make some Democrats love Edwards more. For them abortion is a kind of sacrament, a positive good.
astonerii| 1.27.10 @ 1:47PM
I personally think that men should have just as much right in determining if a child should be aborted as the woman does.
You can read that in either of the two ways it can be read.
SoCon| 1.27.10 @ 2:39PM
So, if a man doesn't want the baby he should be able to force an abortion on the woman?
Well, that's real nice, thanks for that. Got any other brilliant ideas?
Al Adabh| 1.27.10 @ 2:50PM
Read it the other way around. KPIP works too.
SoCon| 1.27.10 @ 3:19PM
Yeah, but I'm fiercely pro-life; you really think ANY man could make me kill my baby? He'd have to kill me first.
Good luck with that idea, boys.
Al Adab| 1.27.10 @ 4:00PM
Conversely, why should ANY woman have the right to kill my baby?
SoCon| 1.27.10 @ 4:34PM
Think it through: Your idea could make it possible for some men (not every man is good like you) to force abortion on a pro-life woman like me.
It is a double-edged sword--and that sword could be pointed at ME!
You and I are on the same side, don't you see? What you propose could make pro-life women more vulnerable. You don't want that, right?
Al| 1.27.10 @ 4:47PM
I believe we are on the same - choose life- page. While the Left sees everything in terms of situational ethics, I and others, perhaps like you, realize that there do exist absolutes. Hence I choose KPIP as the best alternative for me at least. How have we come to such a pass that we debate who has the right to kill whom for whatever reason?
SoCon| 1.27.10 @ 5:12PM
Yes, we are on the same side--what is it about 'fiercely pro-life' that you don't understand?
I didn't know what KPIP meant so I googled it--nothing there--and then I got it! LOL!
Wish more men thought like you; wish more women would KLC!
No one has the right to kill another; it's just another 'right' thought up in the sick, fevered penumbras of liberals' minds. What a pox.
Al| 1.27.10 @ 5:33PM
I understand KLC. Thanks. Good advice to all those young ladies out there.
Maybe we suffered some syntactical obfuscation.
BTW I am not astonerii who started this conversation then vanished. Best wishes to you.
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