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Shame it wasnt Obama but still early days. Does sound like a Carry On movie!!


Love child and mistress claims rock former White House hopeful John Edwards

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Monday, 28 July 2008
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Senator John Edwards with striking Hollywood writers on the picket line last November



John Edwards was fighting for his political future yesterday as America's mainstream media began reporting a colourful scandal involving his alleged mistress, a disputed "secret love child", and an altercation at a Beverly Hills hotel in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The married former Democratic presidential candidate, who is among leading contenders to be Barack Obama's running mate, saw his private life given more attention than he would like when Fox News claimed to have "independently verified" details of last week's National Enquirer story headlined: "John Edwards caught with mistress and love child." Reporters from the supermarket tabloid had confronted Mr Edwards at 2.40am on Tuesday in the corridors of the Beverly Hilton, as he was leaving the bedroom of Rielle Hunter, a divorcee whom he was rumoured to have made pregnant last year.

Amid scenes more suited to a Benny Hill sketch than the corridors of a luxury hotel, two journalists and a photographer chased Mr Edwards – whose wife Elizabeth is battling incurable cancer – around the building for several minutes. He eventually went to ground in the men's lavatory for a quarter of an hour, before being escorted from the premises by security staff.

The incident was reported in lurid detail by The Enquirer, and followed up in dozens of America's influential political blogs and news websites, which claimed that Mr Edwards and Ms Hunter were filmed entering the hotel room at 9.30pm.

The country's upmarket newspapers and major broadcasters refused to investigate The National Enquirer's claims. Tony Pierce, the editor of The Los Angeles Times, went so far as to order staff "not to cover the rumours or salacious speculations". Its unofficial blackout appeared to be holding firm until Friday night, when the presenters of Fox's 9pm talk show, Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, ran a report that confirmed several major details of the Beverly Hilton incident, and asked: "Why were the reporters chasing Edwards, and why is this story nowhere in the mainstream media?"

Mr Hannity said: "I'm a family values guy, and [Edwards'] wife is sick and we wish her all the best. But I wonder if you think there would be a double standard if he were a Republican."

Rumours of the alleged affair have been doing the rounds of Washington for months. In October, Mr Edwards was forced publicly to deny a different Enquirer story, which claimed that Ms Hunter was six months pregnant with his child. "It's completely untrue. Ridiculous," he said. "I've been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years, and as anyone who has been around us knows, she's an extraordinary human being: warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I've ever known."

Why do you think the labor unions always support the "Dummicrates?" Here in Alabama mainly in the greater Montgomery area where the Hyundai car plant is, the labor unions have been trying to get their claws on the employees there. They (the employees) keep voting it down. By my count it has been voted on 6 times. My sister in law tells me how they are approaching them, and intimidating them, but they are holding strong. They have pretty good benefits, but the unions are promising them anything to get their vote. Isn't our unions great?

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http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

http://hnn.us/HowStupidAreWe/book.html

Dear Americans, Do not worry.
It might surely be a similar situation also in Japan
or all other countries.
I think that the difficulty of democracy appears here.

regards.
H.sanada

I see this everyday myself. And I am not surprise either. If the truth is really known, I think most Americans don't really care. They are interested in other things and let the politians do what they do. Our elections are really down........especially when Clinton ran. Less than 50% of the voters came to vote on both of his elections. They have been up since, but really down in my opinion.

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I can't believe some of the answers given. I consider myself fairly intelligent but not extremely so. Some of the answers make me wonder about the education our children are getting or if some of them even want to learn. That film really demorilized me

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I can't believe some of the answers given. I consider myself fairly intelligent but not extremely so. Some of the answers make me wonder about the education our children are getting or if some of them even want to learn. That film really demorilized me

Jay, it might also be that they are doing this to get on TV.

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i cant get over how they all chose australia as the other countries how dumb can they get, i might not know your states and where they are but i sure as h**l know what your country looks like on the world map

cheers smokey

Another cause of this is the allowing of youngsters to pass to the next grade even though their work doesn't warrant it.

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And these are the ignoramuses who are voting people like His Highness Obama into office.

Stumpy, the more I think about it, the more I think that the founding father's original idea of tying voting rights to property ownership wasn't such a bad idea after all. It would force the people voting to have a legitimate interest in the outcome of the election, and would prevent a large class of (mostly) ignorant, under-educated people from forming a large voting bloc the Dems can exploit again and again with free handouts and unfulfilled promises.

Some people are just too stupid to be allowed to vote.

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Here is some insight on the state of American education today and why those idiots in that video appeared so clueless.

Jim , this seems so unreal. How can this be happening? Are we allowing this? We should be shot for not shooting them. I just can't believe this is happening. I guess that's why there are so many home schools going on, but apparently not enough.

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Jay, it might also be that they are doing this to get on TV.

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Hi Hondo
I know TV program often use interesting expression in exaggerated
as for a small event to gain high audience rating.
So,at the same time i introduced a best-selling book-Rick Shenkman's
"Just How Stupid Are We?".

Also in Japan as well as the U.S.,children's falling academic standards
and indifference to the history and the geography become problems.
It might be essentially derivative from the system of capitalism.
The idea what you may do is a problem as long as even do economic growth or money makes a profit.IMO.
maybe Stumpy thinks so too.

regards
H.sanada

jay

i know what you mean by allowing them to go up with their peers even though they cant cope with the work, they do that at my sons current school. i have him tutored once a week for his english and at the end of this year i am moving him out of the school he is in to another one which has smaller classes and teach the 3 r's i hope this move will give him more of a chance to succeed with his education.
cheers smokey