Book: Edwards wanted mistress to have abortion

John Edwards is in Haiti right. Let's hope he stays there.

RE: "Edwards wanted mistress to have abortion"

Of couse he did. That's EVERY liberal's answer to pregnancy - if another baby's inconvenient, just kill it. Oh yeah, and the taxpayers should have to pay the doctor to do it.

Welcome to "free healthcare", America.

Enough! Please! Stop!! We don't CARE about John and Elizabeth Edwards that much!!! Really!!! We don't!!!

All his other mistresses had abortions, so of course he thought she was crazy when she refused.

I feel sorry for all his children, and especially the little one who has neither a mother or father for a role model.

@steven252525
It is certainly my business how our Supreme Court contrived the right to have a "legal" abortion. By your logic, people should just keep quiet until the courts make a ruling, or change one? It was once legal to do many things that are clearly wrong, and currently illegal. Slavery comes to mind.
It is also my business when our government has demonstrated no regard for our constitution as it relates to individual property rights and liberty. Not only do you tell me to accept abortion, but I am supposed to pay for it too?

generation x, I have contended for a very long time, that ANY state that would elect the likes of Jim Hunt four times, let me say it again, FOUR times, is more than one brick shy of a load. The very thing that is wrong with this state and country is the status quo. The dead lock the democRATS have on this state is nauseating. I am proud I never once voted for Hunt, Edwards, Perdue or any of their ilk. I hope what happend in Massachusetts, repeats in NC, this fall. And if SLeasley and company violated the law, I hope they get what they deserved and more. I have heard many say, and I agree, I have always thought Edwards was a morally bankrupt phony, reference his 'ambulance chasing' years. I knew what he was after, just seconds after he hit DC and immediately paraded around the Sunday morning talk shows. NC would have probably went for him, if he had reached that far, thank God he didn't! I urge the people to use their brains and change course in November, not necessarily Republican or DemocRAT, just different, send DOOdue packing!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/27/edwards.split/index.html?hpt=T2

N&O is asleep at the wheel.

2:30 PM Wed ..... Edwards' announce they are now legally separated.

Not to worry .... the N&O will report this in a week or so .... maybe. Don't want to rush into anything don't you know!

What a slithering snake. Edwards needs to disappear from the limelight forever.

"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."

Sorry, Obie already has the corner on that market. Only one golden child allowed per century. But, more like a spirit of a Muslim fanatic, than a Buddhist monk.

Why are you trying to sell this stupid book? Who cares what Edwards is doing or did? If I wanted to find out about Edwards I would read the National Enquirer, not the local paper. And I could care less about this guy's book. Edwards and his dopey wife are old news. Who cares?

Actually JE was only in Haiti for 48 hours ..... long enough for a quick photo op .... then back home. Just long enough for a sympathy grab .....

I like his comment about the "other America". You know; the fat rednecks who eat greasy State Fair midway bar-b-que sandwiches. A real people's sort of feller.

They say he's had an epiphamy, put on a pair of blue jeans, and gone to Haiti to work as a relief volunteer. I'd wager that he's holed up in some high end brothel in neighboring Dominican Republic.

John Edwards aside, what business is it of yours if some has a legal abortion. Worry about your own problems and work on correcting those faults. People who point fingers often have many demons of their own. Once again, if you don't like something, don't do it, that goes for abortion.

The headlines around the world will mention the story that a United States Presidential candidate "allegedly" wished his pregneant mistress to have an abortion.

But yet we were outraged last week when we heard about the school girl being given 90 lashes and prison for bringing her cellphone to school.

I wonder if any of those cultures that we are so quick to condemn might frown upon this abortion story.

If their practices are our business then shouldn't our practices be their business?

It is astonishing how abortion is such a ready alternative. I guess the life of the mother probably WAS at stake, knowing Edwards and his ilk.

Prototype is spot-on.

I'm just wondering. Will the tape of the "slow-motion-traffic-pile-up" be available inside the book sleeve?

It would be the one thing all the other books now on the three-dollar pile don't have, and would, no doubt, do wonders for sales.

Unfortunately none of this is surprising at all. In a better world, the N&O editors & staff who were ardent admirers of JE would take a deep breath and reflect on the reasons WHY they were such unquestioning, fawning supporters. But they won't. The same people who couldn't see past the phony persona of JE can't see past the shiny Teflon coating of our plastic President - telling each focus group, each union, each "minority", each self-appointed liberal elitist newspaper editor - what they WANT to hear - about themselves.

It's all about how a demi-god like JE or Obama makes them feel - it's not about substance or reality. I knew JE was a fake years ago - I still don't understand how otherwise intelligent people could have been so taken in.

These anecdotes about the affair are all quite entertaining, but how about reporting on the very serious revelations contained in the book, regarding Bunny Mellon's donations:

"American aristocrat Bunny Mellon's money donations were prompted by the infamous $400 haircut. A longtime Edwards supporter and philanthropist, Mellon was appalled by the flurry of "jealous" media reports about the Edwards coif, and volunteered to "pay whatever expenses the senator incurred that could not be covered by the campaign." Young claims that Mellon eventually gave more than $6M that largely went to covering Hunter's expenses, although Mellon did not know it.

"Bunny's checks, written for many hundreds of thousands of dollars, were made as payments to her decorator, Bryan Huffman, so that she wouldn't have to offer an explanation to the professionals who handled her accounts. These funds (and the money that came from Fred Baron later) were gifts, entirely proper, and not subject to campaign finance law," Young writes. "She did not know that the money was being used in part for Rielle. Bunny sent the checks to Bryan hidden in boxes of chocolate and with notes discussing her contributions to "the confederacy." Bryan sent them to me with notes of his own."
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/01/the_candidate_r.php

And how about that private jet ride JE took to Bunny's Virginia farm back in December?
http://www.wral.com/news/local/wral_investigates/story/6614687/

Can anyone say "witness tampering"?

How about it N&O reporters? Please, please, please treat John Edwards just as you would a former Republican senator & Presidential candidate caught with his pants down & his wallet empty.

This shows that the Liberal Elitests view abortion as a belated birth control measure. Killing an innocent unborn child to cover up his actions shows how immoral Edwards is. In my opinion he is a shallow, classless wasteland as is many of the Liberals who only care for themselves.

If I had known that the Dome was going to devote so much space to this tabloid nonsense, I'd have gladly paid for the abortion myself.

My husband was right all along.