No mention of John McCain in Raleigh paper article "Edwards joins pols-behaving-badly club"

[mnhtnbb]

No mention of John McCain in the article as a member of the club. The MSM appears to be banding together to give him a pass.

From the article:


We've seen this movie before. The sweaty contrition. The apologies and praise for the woman who stood by her man. The request for God's forgiveness.

Think Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, Eliot Spitzer, Jim McGreevey, Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart and Newt Gingrich. And the list goes on and on -- politicians and husbands behaving badly.

<snip>

Edwards had sold himself as the most electable Democrat -- even though he had a secret that could blow up his campaign at any time.

The Greeks have a word for this: hubris. Which means overweening pride, self-confidence and arrogance resulting in fatal retribution.

For the full article: http://www.newsobserver.com/689/story/1171395.html


And an accompanying one for reaction in the Triangle area:

John Edwards was a self-styled populist in his campaigns, but the former rising Democratic star forwasn't popular with people interviewed in Raleigh and Durham on Saturday.

"We are getting tired of people not living up to what they say," said Bessie Patterson, a Raleigh Democrat and a former supporter of Edwards.

<snip>

Tracey Dryden, a Durham Democrat, was perplexed by the decision of John and Elizabeth Edwards to go ahead with the presidential campaign when they both knew about his extramarital affair.

"It's sort of like if he had become the nominee, then he really would have screwed us Democrats," Dryden said. "Both of them. There's a certain arrogance that they both must have to think they could just work it out among themselves. ... Personally, I couldn't care less about it. But I care because I want a Democrat to win. He shouldn't have been that risky, knowing so much was at stake."

http://www.newsobserver.com/689/story/1171390.html


It's interesting to see that even locally, Elizabeth is being criticized, knowing about the affair,
for supporting his decision to run for President. Elizabeth has been adored in NC, and it appears
that she has fallen from grace, too.

[glowing]

1. Well, there you go... most people don't care, but somehow think that

it would cost the election. Yet, McCain is at the top and Guiliani was in the race with his 3rd mistress/ wife. Sen. Clinton was in the race and was running around with Bill and Chelsea in family portraits. The only thing, they should have stated in the beginning what happened... people may have been more drawn to their family and their story because then they weren't so damned perfect.

[mnhtnbb]

2. I think people believe it would have cost the election because trash talk

would dominate the news rather than a discussion of policy differences between candidates. Plus,
there is the problem of lying about the affair.

Edwards did the same damn thing that Clinton did: tried to cover it up. That's the real problem
because it suggests that he knows the affair was wrong, and he's not willing to admit it. It
brings up the trust issue. What else would he lie about? Only personal behavior?

[glowing]

4. That's why I said, if they came clean with this in a little diddly.. and

just had a mere mention of it as one of the many trials in their lives before all the hoop-lah and fan-fare, then, I don't believe it would have been so bad... Lying is always bad.

[Island Blue]

3. Sounds like a Letter To The Editor is in order.

They obviously "forgot" to mention that one.

[mnhtnbb]

6. Might be a good idea.

[pretzel4gore]

5. news= to defraud the gullible: joe goebbels said it best...

during the Nuremberg Rally, when thousands of crisp nazi soldiers marched by and huge searchlights lit up the night etc, all very mahvellous and wunderful, hitler and goebbels ignored the foolish spectacle and watched the crowd, marvelling at how easy it was distract them; grown ups were worse then tiny children goebbels is reputed to have said. In 'Downfall' a German movie about Shicklegrubber's bunker (fyi, shortly before Adolph's birth, 13 years before, his old man Alois Shicklegruber applied to inherit a plot of land in Wherethehellsthat, a town in Austria, from his elderly aunt, but he needed to change his name to grandmother's name 'Hitler' to succeed, which he did, altho Adolph used 'schicklegrubber' for schooling purposes until he was teenager) Goebbels was confronted by Albert Sheer when their plan to 'fight to the last man' was mentioned- Sheer was appalled and said the 'people' were innocent of nazism's crimes but Goebbels laffed; 'They elected us to do exactly what we said we were going to do, and now they're going to get their throats cut...boohoohoo!'
The USA (indeed all of us) deserve to get our throats cut too, because, unlike Nazi Germany, which was driven mad by the injustice of Versailles, we were po'ed at getting our arses kicked by the Vietnamese, so we disarmed Iraq before going in and murdering a million of their people, just like we nuked Hiroshima/Nagasaki 2 months after the Japanese tried to surrender 'unconditionally.' as payback for Pearl...The rightwingers/conservatives always talk about 'personal responsibility' yet not only do they deny any personal responsibility for crimes against god/man/nature we routinely commit- they deny the facts themselves! They even FORCE history books to lie about the facts.... in order to pretend they did not know, thus are innocent as the driven snow

[Overseas]

7. Glad to see an early comment on the article asking about John Sidney McCain III.

That so-called honest little fella with $520 shoes, 7 homes, unlimited credit and a net worth of $40 million who carried on with beer heiress Cindy Hensley while still married to his first wife who had lost her looks after being injured in an auto accident.