Posted by
Selfish Rhino on Friday, August 08, 2008 6:14:18 PM
So does anyone feel that this 400-word non-apology is going to be sufficient enough to expunge Edward’s actions and exonerate his public image? I love how he says “99% honest” rather than admitting to be a liar. Shouldn’t he have been forthright when the National Enquirer broke the story and truthfully explained what really happened? I suppose that’s how an ambulance chaser attempts to duck confrontation.
Oh, and why didn’t he address what exactly he was doing visiting Rielle Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton last month without telling his wife? Was he perhaps visiting his baby?
At any rate, while I am deeply sympathetic toward the Senator, Elizabeth, and their three children and hope and pray that they have already become stronger as a family since 2006, I selfishly hope that Edwards is to the Democrats in 2006 what Mark Foley was to the Republicans in 2008; however, I am sure his party will give him a pass just as they do every six years with Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd, and he will likely keep his Senate seat when up for re-election in 2010. Hopefully he’s wise enough to give up his presidential ambitions though…
John Edwards' statement
By POLITICO STAFF| 8/8/08 5:16 PM EST
STATEMENT OF SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS
August 8, 2008
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it. But being 99% honest is no longer enough.
I was and am ashamed of my conduct and choices, and I had hoped that it would never become public. With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006 and today I take full responsibility publicly. But that misconduct took place for a short period in 2006. It ended then. I am and have been willing to take any test necessary to establish the fact that I am not the father of any baby, and I am truly hopeful that a test will be done so this fact can be definitively established. I only know that the apparent father has said publicly that he is the father of the baby. I also have not been engaged in any activity of any description that requested, agreed to or supported payments of any kind to the woman or to the apparent father of the baby.
It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me that I am sorry, as it is inadequate to say to the people who love me that I am sorry. In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic. If you want to beat me up – feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help.
I have given a complete interview on this matter and having done so, will have nothing more to say.