Why did Edwards drop out of the news?
Posted by admin @ Friday, Dec. 26th 2008
Jack asked:
He has to be held accountable for the wrongs he committed and used money to finance. Will there be more on Edwards in the future?
He has to be held accountable for the wrongs he committed and used money to finance. Will there be more on Edwards in the future?
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December 28th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Didn’t he just cheat? What wrongs there? It’s not a crime to cheat my friend. On spousal acquaintances.
December 29th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Because it is not relevant. There are much more important things in the news.
December 30th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
What more would you like to happen to him? He’s not running for office; he’s a private person now, so this is between him and his wife.
And why should he be held accountable for anything when the entire Bush administration has not been held accountable for all the crimes they’ve committed in the last eight years?
December 30th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
He is no longer a public official, and men cheat on their wives all the time, so it’s not that newsworthy.
December 31st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
He’s taking a break to spend more time with his family(ies).
January 1st, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I think we’ll hear more about it after investigations are completed. Consult the tablioids if you want “news” in the meantime. They’ll cover it.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 am
Because he’s no longer a VP candidate.
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:53 pm
He has a good publicists. Cheating on a spouse shows bad character and morals. There is no such thing as “Just cheating”….
January 6th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Because there are real issues to report. That’s between him and his family unless he did something criminally illegal.
January 6th, 2009 at 8:56 am
He is being investigated about the money sent to this woman over the months and are following a paper trail. if it came out of the donated funds he will be prosecuted. if not why else would anyone want to know about this liar..Oh yea another lie. he said he told Elizabeth he had cheated but it was Elizabeth who found out and confronted him and he confessed. What a sorry excuse of a man.His political life is in the trash where it should stay,.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
The Olympics
Biden picked as VP
Conventions coming up.
Floods.
And that girl whose mother waited like weeks to report her child missing.
The news is just too distracted to spend any more time on Edwards until something new happens in the story.
January 8th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
He is no longer a factor in our politics and so he is no longer news. If he appears again it will be as celebrity, like Paris Hilton etc.
January 9th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Well, considering that he has not broken any laws as of yet and there is no more development of the story of his scandal then I don’t see why the news needs to rehash this story ad nauseum… especially since he is not part of the presidential race…. until a investigation uncovers illegal then don’t wake me up with more details on a *** scandal… yawn… You can wake me up about a real issue though… until then I could care less. I could really care less if Edwards used campaign money to pay his mistress… every candidate has misused campaign funds at one time or another.
Why do you want to punish Edwards so badly? What does this have to do with your life personally?
January 10th, 2009 at 6:07 am
are you talking about the posibality he used funds to support his mistress? I don’t think that has been proven yet but if it is proven (somd day) could be big problems for him & well deserved. He is a real jerk & deserves any thing coming to him.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Because he is a private citizen (as in no longer a public servant) and what he does in his private life is just that private. Should the media report it if and when you ever manage to “get” some? And besides its not relevant and nobody cares.
January 15th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Edwards dropped out of the news because no one really gives a sh*t. It happened two years ago and his wife ALREADY knew. What is the news there?
January 18th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Isn’t it up to his wife to punish him. His affair is none of the publics concern, whether he was still in the political arena or not. Matter of fact, it made me like him more-shows he’s a human just like the rest of us. Politicians cheat on!!!
January 21st, 2009 at 8:04 pm
why should it still be in the news?
he’s not serving anymore… there seem to be no new developments…
if Mike Huckabee cheated… we would all get a good laugh out of it for a couple of days and move on… just like we did with edwards…
January 24th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
That’s a pandora’s box that won’t open even with a Supreme Court-stamped crow bar. You sue John Edwards for accepting donations and running for office while hiding an affair, you set a precedent for every single candidate. It would destabilize the environment of running for office all the way from the presidency down to the local city council in ways that would be hideously detrimental. Specifically, that precedent would become a tool used by aggressive oppenents trying to rend deal-breaking damage upon their adversaries.
As for why he’s out of the news…I’d venture to say it’s because it is irrelevant. These aren’t the Clinton days when the worst thing going on in America was the fact that someone got frisky on the side.
Besides, keep in mind that it’s in fact a fallacy that if people knew of his affair, they wouldn’t have voted for him (or the bigger stretch that they would have specifically gone to Hillary instead of Obama). Why? If that were true, John McCain would never have been able to get this far in the campaign.