Wed May 9, 2012, 04:36 PM

alp227 (20,491 posts)

John Edwards repeatedly called liar at trial

Source: Washington Post

In a packed, tense courtroom room here Wednesday, jurors heard over and over again that former presidential candidate John Edwards is a liar.

They heard it from Edwards’s defense attorney, Abbe Lowell, and they heard it from a staffer who worked to draft public statements in an effort to contain the damage from revelations about the former senator’s affair with a campaign staffer. Edwards even lost credibility with his closest advisers. Jennifer Palmieri, now deputy White House communications director, testified that she advised Edwards not to do an August 2008 interview with ABC if he wasn’t prepared to tell the truth.

“Even I didn’t believe what he was saying,” Palmieri told jurors.

Edwards went ahead with the interview, saying he wasn’t the father of mistress Rielle Hunter’s child. He also stated that he didn’t know money was being spent to support her.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/john-edwards-repeatedly-called-liar-at-trial/2012/05/09/gIQA1hKXDU_story.html

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John Edwards repeatedly called liar at trial (Original post)	alp227	May 2012	OP
When this trial is over for the love of god can they PLEASE take a closer look at Palin's $$$$?	Blue_Tires	May 2012	#1
No doubt.	AtheistCrusader	May 2012	#3
But the NeoCons love Palin--and WaPo is NeoCon	McCamy Taylor	May 2012	#5
He lied about having an affair. Most people do until they finally realize that their	JDPriestly	May 2012	#2
yeah, he just happened to be running for president at the time.	cali	May 2012	#6
He probably compartmentalized his affair and his campaign.	JDPriestly	May 2012	#9
doubtful, as aide after aide	cali	May 2012	#10
Remember the "Good Lie" from the WaPo?	McCamy Taylor	May 2012	#4
What Good Lie?	alp227	May 2012	#7
No idea what was meant, but there have been some good lies	JustABozoOnThisBus	May 2012	#8

Response to alp227 (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 04:45 PM

Blue_Tires (31,753 posts)

1. When this trial is over for the love of god can they PLEASE take a closer look at Palin's $$$$?

I'd bet the house her accounts are ten times dirtier than JE's

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Response to Blue_Tires (Reply #1)

Wed May 9, 2012, 05:54 PM

AtheistCrusader (14,260 posts)

3. No doubt.

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Wed May 9, 2012, 06:59 PM

McCamy Taylor (13,710 posts)

5. But the NeoCons love Palin--and WaPo is NeoCon

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Wed May 9, 2012, 05:15 PM

JDPriestly (37,760 posts)

2. He lied about having an affair. Most people do until they finally realize that their

lies are not believed. There is nothing unusual about lying about an affair. Could happen to someone near you.

I haven't done it, but I know that people who have affairs have a hard time admitting it even to themselves. It's like an addiction, I suspect.

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Wed May 9, 2012, 07:45 PM

cali (80,280 posts)

6. yeah, he just happened to be running for president at the time.

so the combination of those two makes it unlikely that it could happen to someone near me or you or most of us.

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Response to cali (Reply #6)

Thu May 10, 2012, 10:52 AM

JDPriestly (37,760 posts)

9. He probably compartmentalized his affair and his campaign.

We are all capable of rationalizing in amazing ways. It's a survival technique, perhaps an outgrowth of our survival instinct.

How do you think George Bush reconciles having killed so many Iraqis and American soldiers when there was utterly no reason to go into Iraq that he or his aides could articulate.

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Response to JDPriestly (Reply #9)

Thu May 10, 2012, 10:55 AM

cali (80,280 posts)

10. doubtful, as aide after aide

confronted him about it.

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Response to alp227 (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 06:57 PM

McCamy Taylor (13,710 posts)

4. Remember the "Good Lie" from the WaPo?

Sorry, but I would rather read was the NYT has to say. WaPo is little better than the Washinton Times now.

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Response to McCamy Taylor (Reply #4)

Thu May 10, 2012, 02:12 AM

alp227 (20,491 posts)

7. What Good Lie?

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Response to alp227 (Reply #7)

Thu May 10, 2012, 07:30 AM

JustABozoOnThisBus (9,918 posts)

8. No idea what was meant, but there have been some good lies

... whoppers, in fact.

Iraqi occupiers were tossing Kuwaiti babies out, and sending the incubators back to Baghdad.

Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy. And, he was acting alone.

The U.S. Navy was brutally attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

Or, maybe they're not lies. Who knows?

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