As were Newt Gringrich’s when he did essentially the same thing…had an affair while married to a wife with cancer. Newt managed to top Edwards by asking for a divorce from his wife while she lay ill in the hospital.

I for one am sick and tired of these guys who can’t keep their pants zipped up, no matter what party they are from. It’s disgusting, juvenile, and shows a disturbing lack of self-control and good judgement.

I’m shocked by Edward’s actions, and his weak “explanation/apology” that was televised. I wish political wives would start dumping these guys on the spot.

That being said….he’s not running for anything. Let’s try to stick to what’s important: the fact that after 6 years of total Republican rule, the country is crumbling around our ears.

Sexual infidelity was quite the scandal when Thomas Hardy was writing his infuriatingly tepid “masterpieces.” Today, it’s fodder for feigned outrage during an election season. Surprise surprise!

Face it, Vitter and Foley were funnier beacause they were bona fide deviants — not necessarily because they were family-values Republicans, although I won’t pretend I didn’t relish that irony. Like lip-licking, rubbing-my-palms-together-in-glee relish. That’s my right as an American, God dammit.

Garden-variety infidelity, on the other hand, is barely entertaining enough to sustain a locally-produced half-hour reality show. If Edwards had had a three-way with an 84-year-old woman and a donkey — or more deliciously yet, an elephant — then, then we’d have a story here.

But Edwards is no JFK.

And still, the defenders of Edwards refuse to refute his actions…more diversions. There is every other possible political issue, person, and issue mentioned EXCEPT Edwards. That speaks volumes.

“I can politely disagree with someone, and yet, not attack them.”

But just a few sentences earlier, in the VERY same post, her first sentence:

“TL…you may need to be medicated. Or, take a remedial punctuation course? Or both…”

Maybe it’s Amanda that needs the meds, if she can’t remember what she wrote seconds before…

Thumberlina, you go girl. I enjoy your posts. Don’t let the crazies beat you down…their day is over, and they know it. The American citizens just woke up from a long nightmare, and they know it.

Bush authorized rendition.

Bush authorized torture. Yes, that means waterboarding.

Bush authorized a war based on lies resulting in millions of innocent Iraqi and Afghani civilian deaths as well as an ethnic cleansing.

Thousands of our troops have been killed or seriously injured.

The US dollar is in the tank.

The housing/mortgage crisis has almost caused a depression.

How about the trampling of our Constitution with warrantless wiretapping?

Laptops are being confiscated at airports and the border.

Under Bush, oil companies are raking in record profits while Americans suffer.

The US attorney scandal.

A health care epidemic.

John Edwards screws around on his wife.

Monica Goodling

A standing ovation in Congress for David Vitter’s return.

Military TV Analysts/Generals scandal.

Larry Craig’s bathroom adventure.

They’re our last line of defense the individual has against big business and bigger government.

I would be that if we had a slimemeter we could use to gauge slime composition in job categories lawyers would be judged at the top or at least near it for lack of sliminess.

Those in cubicles wouldn’t be as lucky after the slimemeter visit.

And wasn’t all the hullaboo about McCain and a blond with ambitions?

Isn’t he the Republican candidate for President?

Forgive me but it seems to me that if we’re going to run innuendo into the ground we need to inject into this discussion an important fact. The democratic party didn’t make the major player their candidate. The republicans did.