Edwards admits affair
Can you imagine what a state we'd all be in this morning if Edwards was the Democratic nominee?
It sort of puts the worries that Obama isn't further ahead in the polls into some kind of perspective.Putting an end at last to months of rumour, John Edwards, the 2004 and 2008 Democratic Presidential contender, admitted yesterday he had had an affair with a campaign worker while he was running for the White House and while his wife was suffering from incurable cancer.
Mr Edwards however denied he was the father of her child, as alleged by The National Enquirer, the supermarket tabloid that first broke the story 10 months ago. But he admitted in an interview with ABC News that he had lied repeatedly about his relationship with Rielle Hunter, a 42-year-old filmmaker who was taken on in 2006 to produce documentaries about the campaign. The former candidate insisted he did not love Ms Hunter, and the affair had taken place while his wife Elizabeth's cancer was in remission.
If Edwards was the Democratic nominee then we could safely say that McCain would be heading for the White House, even though his own history regarding how he treats his spouses isn't exactly perfect either.
In fact, if you want to see the kind of free pass which the media are handing to John McCain, then the way they gloat on the John Edwards story will be a perfect illustration when compared with the way they are skating over McCain's adulterous past.
If a Democrat has an affair then it speaks volumes about his character. If a Republican has an affair - and lies about in his own memoir - then it's really not that big a deal and not worth bothering about.Clearly, this is the kind of salacious story reporters just love. A presidential candidate, running on his personal background, is found to have a messy past. The story has sex, drama, and fairly obvious lies — everything a news outlet needs for wall-to-wall coverage. What does this tell us about McCain’s character? Will voters care about a conservative Republican’s adultery? What will the “family-values” crowd say? How do we reconcile McCain’s untruths with his alleged proclivity for “straight talk”? Will the revelations hurt McCain in the polls? It’s the kind of story the media can obsess over for months.
So, let’s take a moment to step back, and analyze the media frenzy we’ve seen over the last 24 hours, as the political world comes to grips with McCain’s controversial personal life and his willingness to be less than truthful about it:
Nada.(picture tumble weeds rolling by)
This is typical behaviour from the so called "Liberal media".
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