Edwards Admits to Affair, Denies Fathering Child

[spicedogs]

 

The Associated Press
Friday, August 8, 2008; 3:06 PM

 

WASHINGTON -- Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is admitting to an extramarital affair but denies fathering the woman's daughter.

Edwards tells ABC News that he lied repeatedly about the affair with a 42-year-old woman but says that he didn't love her. He says he has not taken a paternity test but knows he isn't the father because of the timing of the affair and the birth.

ABC says a former Edwards campaign staffer claims he is the father, not Edwards.

Edwards was a top contender for the Democratic nomination for president. He placed second in the Iowa caucuses last January but dropped out of the race a few weeks later.

Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina, was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2004. 

SOURCE:  Washington Post


  

Comments

[katje0711.livejournal.com]

Did he drop the news or did it come out because of the Enquirer?

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

I think that he came out because he was caught. Come on, the affair happened 2 years ago. He was trying to save his butt.

[katje0711.livejournal.com]

I should've known that icon would show up eventually! LMAO!

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

I was dying to use it.

[shalimar77777.livejournal.com]

The Enquirer broke the story. They sent around 10 reporters to the hotel where he was visiting the mistress and the baby (I kid you not - 10 reporters - they wanted to make sure everyone could verify it).

When he left the elevator and all the reporters were standing there asking questions, he ran upstairs and went into the first floor bathroom for 15 minutes or so and hid before having a security guard usher him out.

BTW - the Enquirer filed a lawsuit saying that a few reporters were roughed up by security. This means Edwards will have to testify/verify the incident, as will the security guards. I doubt Edwards would perjure himself at this point.

They really wanted to nail him on this one. I don't know who had it in for him, but they are really serious about proving this is true.

He only answered about the affair when there was so much chatter about it on the Internets/cable news, etc. and none of the big papers covered it. There has been some speculation, tho, that some of the reporters on the campaign trail new about it for a long time but kept it a secret to protect Elizabeth Edwards. I don't blame them for this. I can only imagine having to go through cancer treatments and have to deal with this at the same time. :(

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

OMG, I remember this story. I didn't realize that they were talking about him. I just heard that the reporters were following him. I didn't hear the name of the man pursued by the reporters.

Scum... How could you do this to your ailing wife. And, who knows how many more he had and was not found out.

[katje0711.livejournal.com]

Ten reporters? Holy crap! I hadn't heard all that, what a mess.