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The New York Times reports that Senator John Edwards’ former aide, Andrew Young, is shopping a book proposal around in which he reveals that Edwards is the father of Rielle Hunter’s baby, the woman he had an affair with during his presidential campaign. Young says that he and another aide conspired with Edwards to hide the truth about the baby. Young also says that Edwards told Hunter that he would marry her when his wife, Elizabeth, who has terminal cancer, died.
New York Times article re Young book proposal
Well. Surely no one is shocked to find out that Edwards, despite all his denials, is actually the baby daddy. The National Enquirer, who originally broke the story of the affair and the love child, had sources who had sworn all along Edwards was the father, and the Enquirer had not been wrong once.
National Enquirer article re Edwards affair
Hunter, of course, is beneath contempt. Edwards, well what can you say. That at the time he got involved with her he was in a place in his life that made him vulnerable to Hunter’s aggressive advances? Maybe. But he’s still a snake. I supported Edwards the first time he ran for President, was glad when he was selected as Kerry’s running mate, and I had hoped he would be Hillary Clinton’s choice for VP, had she gained the nomination. I loved that story about being the son of a mill worker who put himself through college, who was a brilliant and successful trial lawyer, whose tragic loss of his son, Wade, inspired him to run for public office. Wade’s death apparently drove Elizabeth crazy enough with grief to undergo hormone therapy so she could have two more children, and the treatments may have been partly responsible for her breast cancer.
To tell the truth, I never liked Elizabeth much, or felt too sorry for her, beyond feeling sorry that she had lost a child, and was dying of cancer. That breathless wide-eyed folksy act she put on was never convincing. I always thought of her as wearing big girl panties which fit her really really well; compared to her, Hillary Clinton was a marshmallow. When Elizabeth used the affair to flog her book last year, it was obvious that she wanted to have it all ways, and it was obvious from what she was saying that she was keeping her husband from coming forward and claiming his child; the interview with Oprah was embarrassing, how anybody could still respect Elizabeth after all that is beyond me. I wrote her off. I must say I’ve softened a bit now that I’ve read that bit in Young’s book proposal about Edwards supposedly waiting for her to die so he can go off to marry Hunter. Rielle is no slouch; in advance of the event, she and little Frances are about to move into the Edwards’ neighborhood. And Hunter was clearly eager to spill everything in front of the grand jury investigating whether Edwards improperly funneled hush money to her from his campaign; according to photographers at the courthouse, she was turning the kid’s face to the camera. Elizabeth doesn’t strike me as the type to slit her wrists, still I wouldn’t want to be in her position. On the other hand, the whole drama apparently gives her something to do, or I should say both women, as it is clear they are waging a war, and they both mean to win.
Who knows how much Young will get paid for his book, but likely he’ll rake in millions and enjoy the wealth and celebrity he’s sure to gain from exposing his employer’s failings, and after all, we couldn’t expect him to care that he would also expose Edwards’ family and the innocent child to pain they could have been spared, we couldn’t even expect him to wait until Elizabeth died because this is that kind of world, the kind that values money and entertainment above decency and compassion. That’s the real tragedy.
The New York Times reports that Senator John Edwards’ former aide, Andrew Young, is shopping a book proposal around in which he reveals that Edwards is the father of Rielle Hunter’s baby, the woman he had an affair with during his presidential campaign. Young says that he and another aide conspired with Edwards to hide the truth about the baby. Young also says that Edwards told Hunter that he would marry her when his wife, Elizabeth, who has terminal cancer, died.
New York Times article re Young book proposal
Well. Surely no one is shocked to find out that Edwards, despite all his denials, is actually the baby daddy. The National Enquirer, who originally broke the story of the affair and the love child, had sources who had sworn all along Edwards was the father, and the Enquirer had not been wrong once.
National Enquirer article re Edwards affair
Hunter, of course, is beneath contempt. Edwards, well what can you say. That at the time he got involved with her he was in a place in his life that made him vulnerable to Hunter’s aggressive advances? Maybe. But he’s still a snake. I supported Edwards the first time he ran for President, was glad when he was selected as Kerry’s running mate, and I had hoped he would be Hillary Clinton’s choice for VP, had she gained the nomination. I loved that story about being the son of a mill worker who put himself through college, who was a brilliant and successful trial lawyer, whose tragic loss of his son, Wade, inspired him to run for public office. Wade’s death apparently drove Elizabeth crazy enough with grief to undergo hormone therapy so she could have two more children, and the treatments may have been partly responsible for her breast cancer.
To tell the truth, I never liked Elizabeth much, or felt too sorry for her, beyond feeling sorry that she had lost a child, and was dying of cancer. That breathless wide-eyed folksy act she put on was never convincing. I always thought of her as wearing big girl panties which fit her really really well; compared to her, Hillary Clinton was a marshmallow. When Elizabeth used the affair to flog her book last year, it was obvious that she wanted to have it all ways, and it was obvious from what she was saying that she was keeping her husband from coming forward and claiming his child; the interview with Oprah was embarrassing, how anybody could still respect Elizabeth after all that is beyond me. I wrote her off. I must say I’ve softened a bit now that I’ve read that bit in Young’s book proposal about Edwards supposedly waiting for her to die so he can go off to marry Hunter. Rielle is no slouch; in advance of the event, she and little Frances are about to move into the Edwards’ neighborhood. And Hunter was clearly eager to spill everything in front of the grand jury investigating whether Edwards improperly funneled hush money to her from his campaign; according to photographers at the courthouse, she was turning the kid’s face to the camera. Elizabeth doesn’t strike me as the type to slit her wrists, still I wouldn’t want to be in her position. On the other hand, the whole drama apparently gives her something to do, or I should say both women, as it is clear they are waging a war, and they both mean to win.
Who knows how much Young will get paid for his book, but likely he’ll rake in millions and enjoy the wealth and celebrity he’s sure to gain from exposing his employer’s failings, and after all, we couldn’t expect him to care that he would also expose Edwards’ family and the innocent child to pain they could have been spared, we couldn’t even expect him to wait until Elizabeth died because this is that kind of world, the kind that values money and entertainment above decency and compassion. That’s the real tragedy.