John Edwards: Sleazeball?

[XemaSab]

Poll question: John Edwards: Sleazeball?

:shrug:

[Parche]

1. i really dont think he is a good psychic

:hi:

[XemaSab]

2. Notsomuch, no

:P

[Danger Mouse]

3. Neutral to sleazeball for me.

What do you think?

[XemaSab]

11. I'm trying to be objective

:P

[Danger Mouse]

28. But you have an opinion.

PM me then if you don't want to be publicly biased. :P

[XemaSab]

30. I do have an opinion, as a matter of fact

:)

[sandnsea]

4. John Edwards, Human

I was never a supporter, although I liked him okay. He's human. Why villify him. It's between him and Elizabeth at this point. We'll see what he's made of with time.

[IsItJustMe]

9. I was a supporter, He is the only one that spoke for the poor. He made a bad desicion. If he does

it again, then he did not learn and then he is a sleezball. I believe in redemption.

[Kalyke]

12. He spoke for them, but did little else.

[Occam Bandage]

19. Talk is cheap. What has multi-millionare Johnny ever done for the poor?

He had his poverty center at Chapel Hill...that he abandoned once he dropped out of the '08 race. He had his scholarship program...that he canceled once he dropped out of the '08 race. There was the time he made a quarter-million hanging on a subprime-investing hedge fund, but I don't think that counts as "helping the poor." Then there was his Senate career. Co-sponsoring Joe Lieberman's version of the Iraq War Resolution, voting for most-favored-nation status for China, voting for the Patriot Act...yeah, the dude was a progressive firebrand :eyes:

[JFN1]

5. I voted other and here is why

Is Mr. Edwards a sleazeball? Yes, and no.

This guy slept around on his cancer stricken wife. We all denounced John McCain for screwing around on his sick wife, and I don't see any real difference between what McCain did, and what Edwards did.

He's still a good Democrat, and a decent politician. But I don't respect him anymore, because of what he did. He's not a teenager who doesn't know how to "keep it in his pants." He is an accomplished adult who absolutely KNOWS better.

And don't tell me he "made a mistake." Having sex isn't as simple as getting an ice cream. And it isn't a single mistake. Having sex is a series of opportunities to make a different choice, as anyone who thought they were about to have sex with someone, and then didn't, knows. Mr. Edwards had countless opportunities to stop himself, to control himself. AND HE CHOSE - many time over - NOT TO.

So is he a sleazeball? As regards cheating on his wife - yes. Yes he is.

As to the rest? We'll have to see. If Mr. Edwards cannot keep his promise to his sick wife, for now, at least, it is hard - if not impossible - to trust him with much of anything else.

[WildEyedLiberal]

7. Ugh, THANK YOU - having an affair isn't a "mistake"

Forgetting your car keys is a "mistake." Hell, forgetting your anniversary is a "mistake." Having an affair is a DELIBERATE CHOICE. MAYBE, if it had been one time, and he had been drunk or otherwise not possessing his wits, and as soon as he came to, he realized "oh SHIT what have I done?" - that might be a "mistake." But no - seeing someone secretly for months on end is not a mistake, it's a CHOICE. He CHOSE to cheat on his terminally ill wife. He CHOSE to disregard her feelings and the promises he made to her. "Mistake" my ass. I thought Newt Gingerich and John McCain were sleazy lying assholes for the way they treated their wives - why should I make an exception for John Edwards, because he has a D behind his name?

[Occam Bandage]

18. I think he's a sleazeball, and his wife's got nothing to do with it.

His entire political career is one of talking big and then not doing shit.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

6. Guess it's good we DID lose in 2000 and 2004

Could you imagine both / either Lieberman or Edwards being VICE PRESIDENT??!!

Aren't you glad we pick on our own? Nicccceeeee................

[az chela]

8. I supported John for president and i really liked him

The problem is I love Elizabeth and the pain he has caused her has made it impossible for me support him any longer altho I still feel he is a very good guy when it comes to politics

[DaveinMD]

10. I was a supporter

and am very disappointed in his actions. That doesn't mean he wasn't a positive force for change.

[cali]

13. Hedge Fund Johnny- sleazeball. Phony who hasn't done jackshit for

the poor he claims to care about. And yeah, his 24,000 sq ft vulgar house is an environmental joke and a big fat clue.

[MonteLukast]

14. Only one thing I know for sure:

ANY evidence of him donating in support of California's Prop 8, and his name WILL be mud.

That would be the last straw.

[XemaSab]

15. Open Secrets doesn't have any donation records for him

:shrug:

[Yukari Yakumo]

21. Newsmeat does.

http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/John_Edwards.php

He hasn't donated jack to anyone since '03, and that's to himself!
Beyond that, he didn't donate anything to anyone after '97!

[Occam Bandage]

22. You can tell he just cares so deeply about the poor.

:crazy:

[XemaSab]

24. Interesting....

n/t

[quakerboy]

16. Other: Who?

Sorry, I know theres a pair of guys still competing to be senator in Alaska, a couple more competing in Minnesota. I hear there will be a runoff in Georgia. We have a new president elect, and a goober of a sitting president that we have to endure for another couple months.

I know I have a new senator here in Oregon, and I know that California passed measure 8, which makes all our other victories a little less jubilant. I know that I keep hearing about Palin even though she is totaly unimportant to me, and I know Nader is a dipstick. I have mixed feelings about Rahm Imanuel going with Obama, and wish we could get Lieberman out of our hair.

I am curious who will be taking the spot of the p/vp elect in the senate next year.

I could go on, but the point is that Edwards isn't even the tiniest little blip on the screen at this time.

[realitythink]

17. You left something out

I was a big supporter, donated to his campaign, and am dissappointed in his judgement but I don't think he's a sleazeball. I'm just grateful he didn't get the nomination because we'd all be very depressed right now if he had.

[Occam Bandage]

20. Utter sleazeball, and was an utter sleazeball before he cheated repeatedly on his dying wife. nt

[Raine]

23. I was a big supporter but he's a total sleazeball

for cheating on a his cancer striken wife. x( Cheating is one thing but cheating when your wife has terminal cancer that's just beyond the pale. :-(

[tritsofme]

25. Oh most definitely. The greatest political story of this season was the decline and fall of John

Edwards.

I enjoyed it thoroughly.

That scandal confirmed every bad thing I ever thought about the man, and magnified it by ten.

Now he's just a phony has-been politician, and it will be great to see him off of the national stage forever.

[NoPasaran]

26. Other

I didn't care for him, but I didn't think he was a sleazeball until recently.

[seabeyond]

27. never a big supporter, and never disliked him.... glad to see you give neutral choice. n.t

[iamthebandfanman]

29. why so much talk about edwards again?

did i miss something?

[Occam Bandage]

32. For some reason, his DU fan club seems to have launched an effort to rehabilitate his image.

I'm not entirely sure what prompted it.

[Colobo]

31. I liked the guy. Not anymore.

[DU GrovelBot]

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