The Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas church famous for its anti-homosexual protests at funerals, said it plans to protest at the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards on Saturday.Because, well, what reason could there be? She stood up for gay rights or something?
The church plans to protest for 45 minutes before the funeral starts at 1 p.m., according to the church's website.
The church did not provide a specific reason for the protest.
I want my government to stop investigating John Edwards' sex life; and, instead investigate who stole the wealth of America, and why BP was allowed to drill a well into the Earth’s very core. Please KICK BP OUT OF THE DAM COUNTRY!!!! I think it is time for us Progressives to Welcome Back John Edwards. It turns out he was right about a lot of things. Here's the proof watch these videos: "You can't nice these people to death. They (BP) will drive through like a freight train.": Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi3_CCLv4No&feature=channel_page “The system in Washington is Rigged.” “End the Game.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvumTKOSYaI Yes, there are "Two Americas", and I am in the one that wants John Edwards back to be our spokesperson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRNJlSxOHLESearching around, I also found this comment from 10 days ago.
Americans need to hear John Edwards to give this speech again.You notice one of the videos is plugged both times.
“Corporate profits should work for Democracy and not the other way around…
“End the Game”:
Click and Watch or copy the address below and paste it into your address bar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvumTKOSYaI
I think it is time for us America to Welcome Back John Edwards.
Within a week of Sarah Palin ascending to national prominence in 2008 we knew every intimate detail of her life, most of it portrayed in unflattering fashion by the Washington press corps. Meanwhile, you had an "an abusive, intrusive, paranoid, condescending crazywoman" and her cheating husband still getting good press even after these writers knew the truth.
It was "the lie of Saint Elizabeth," the courageous, cancer-stricken, wronged-wife persona that endeared Elizabeth Edwards to Americans.
Behind the scenes, she and John Edwards fought viciously and she erupted in irrational outbursts, a new book says.
"Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime," by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, says John Edwards' campaign staffers suffered her wrath for years and felt like "battered spouses."
"There was no one on the national stage for whom the disparity between public image and private reality was vaster or more disturbing," the book says. In the mainstream media, the worse John Edwards looked and the more tawdry his profile became, the more heroic his wife seemed.
A dissection of the 2008 presidential campaign that has made news for juicy revelations, "Game Change" paints Edwards as "an abusive, intrusive, paranoid, condescending crazywoman."
Through all of John Edwards' denials of his affair and his love child, Edwards was publicly a noble buttress. But for years, Edwards denigrated her husband as a hick and said his parents were rednecks.
The book also shows moments of her pain and vulnerability: In 2007, the day after the National Enquirer broke news of her husband's affair with Rielle Hunter, the Edwardses fought in an airport parking lot, and Edwards cried and tore off her blouse, imploring her husband, "Look at me!"
In April 2008, when the supermarket tabloid published a photo of John Edwards holding his love child, Edwards insisted her husband wasn't the father.
"I have to believe it, because if I don't, it means I'm married to a monster," she told an aide.
John Edwards finally admitted Thursday that he fathered a daughter with Hunter. A former aide, Andrew Young, who had claimed to be the father, is due to spill all in a TV interview next week.
Former senator John Edwards on Thursday admitted paternity of a daughter with former mistress Rielle Hunter, despite his previous denials, in a statement given to the "Today" show.Cherubim was unavailable for comment.
Harrison Hickman, a trusted Edwards adviser, went on the show to discuss the statement from the former presidential candidate, who also served as the vice presidential nominee for the Democratic Party in 2004.
"I am Quinn's father," Edwards said in the statement. "I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves. It was wrong to deny she was my daughter."
He also apologized to his daughter, now two, saying he hoped she could forgive him one day, and to the public. "To all those I have have disappointed and hurt, these words will never be enough. But I am truly sorry," he said.
"I know it's not possible," Edwards previously said over the question of whether Quinn was his child.
For months now, Elizabeth, who is said to be talking to a divorce lawyer, also has been sniping at Hunter - painting her as a blackmailing gold digger - in blog comments where she uses the pseudonym "Cherubim," according to a source who knows Elizabeth.Sure enough, 'Cherubim' did seem to get around. Here she is at the Huffington Post in May 2009.
Though "Cherubim" has recently described herself as an African-American woman, the source insists, "It's Elizabeth. She's used 'cherubim' as a password. Look at the gravestone of their son Wade: It's an angel holding a boy."
"Cherubim" has also heaped scorn on estranged Edwards aide Andrew Young, who is working on a book in which he's due to reveal that Edwards and wealthy supporters paid him to claim that he fathered Quinn.
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By definition: Gold digger:
a woman who associates with or marries a man chiefly for material or monetary gain.
A gold digger by any other name would be Lisa Druke the Rielle (Real) Hunter.
Has the miner struck Gold ?
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But, for Bill Clinton everything is just find.
Eh, Right.
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As you all continue to discuss Lisa Druke's lastest pay day story from
the National Enquirer. I think you all should remember these important
facts:
John and Elizabeth Edwardsa have been married for 31 years.
They had four children together, three are living, and one, recently, died.
Elizabeth Edwards has stage 4 cancer.
Any decent human being would not have inserted herself
into their lives, and then sold stories about them to the National Enquierer
for monetary gain.
Lisa Druke, a.k.a. the Rielle (Real) Hunter fills me with disgust.
I hope someday to never hear anything about her again.
Cherubim Says:In 2008 'Cherubim' paid a visit to Death by 1000 Papercuts.
March 5th, 2009 1:22 AM
I think the National Enquirer is desperate, and is using John Edwards stories to make money. The National Enquirer is disgusting.
Read about the financial state of
the National Enquirer here:
Cherubim said:Yes, it's a safe bet to say this probably is Mrs. Edwards.
If this story is true, then one can only conclude that Rielle Hunter knows for a fact that Senator John Edwards is not the father of her child. This makes me happy for John and Elizabeth Edwards, their children ,and the American people whom John Edwards has, and I hope will continue to serve.
President-Elect Barack Obama has chosen, mostly, Wall Street promoters and corporate lawyers to be in his cabinet. He hasn’t included anyone who knows how to interact and relate with everyday American citizens, and then report back to him concerning: (1) what the people need, and (2) whether his administration’s new initiatives are working. During the Great Depression, Eleanor Roosevelt fulfilled this role for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. I nominate Senator John Edwards for this role. John Edwards would be a refreshing change. Is not change what Obama s supposed to be about? As a rival of Barack Obama, for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, John Edwards, consistently spoke up for average Americans, i.e. Main Street, not Wall Street. During his “Road to One America Poverty Tour” John Edwards demonstrated that he is uniquely qualified for this role.
The video evidence follows (put the address in your address bar and click to see the video):
He has walked with and comforted people whose homes were being foreclosed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i_GWrYkcCI
Defined the “Great Moral Test of Our Generation”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS1×88ZmohM
He has visited workers employed in the new renewal energy economy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50yOR5bvMV0
John Edwards is, also, the only candidate for President that actually went down to New Orleans on several occasions and worked along side those striving to try to bring back the areas that remain so devastated from the effects of Hurricane Katrina:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAqktFnA4nk&feature=PlayList&p=EB1EC8919DC5DC52&index=0
Elizabeth, 59, who is terminally ill with cancer, speaks in far more detail than before about her husband's infidelity in her new memoir, "Resilience," due to be published May 12 by Broadway Books. A copy was obtained by the Daily News.If Hunter is pathetic, what does that make a guy who cheats on his cancer-stricken wife?
Despite feeling deeply deceived, Elizabeth Edwards nonetheless publicly stood by her husband's side, lending his candidacy the aura of a warm, loving family life.
But she had actually wanted him to quit the race to protect the family. Edwards admitted the hanky-panky to her days after declaring his candidacy in 2006 - almost a year before the National Enquirer reported it.
She was afraid of the destructive questions Edwards' affair with videographer Rielle Hunter would raise.
Later events proved her right. "He should not have run," she says.
Edwards did not publicly admit the affair until last August - seven months after he quit the race, and the National Enquirer had reported he was the father of Hunter's infant daughter.
Edwards denied paternity, and his wife's book doesn't address that issue.
But it does highlight Elizabeth Edwards' anger and sorrow at being duped by a man whose four children she'd borne and whose political ambitions she'd passionately supported for so many years.
Hunter initially seduced Edwards using a worn come-on line, Elizabeth writes:
"You are so hot," Hunter told him outside a swank New York hotel. The campaign ultimately paid Hunter $114,000 to produce a batch of short films on his candidacy.
She lashes out at Hunter, now 45, whose name she never actually uses in the book, as a parasitic groupie who invaded the Edwardses' life.
Her own life may be tragic, she concludes, but Hunter's is "pathetic."
John Edwards assured his mistress that they'd be together after his cancer-stricken wife died, according to a new bombshell report.
Just before the former presidential contender confessed his adultery to ABC News on Aug. 8, he secretly flew Rielle Hunter and her 6-month-old child, Frances Quinn, from California to the US Virgin Islands, according to the National Enquirer, which first exposed their affair.
And after the interview, in which he denied loving Hunter or fathering the baby, he called her to say, "We'll be together when Elizabeth is gone," the tabloid reported.
For her part, Hunter bragged that Edwards is "a real good lover," the Enquirer said.
And after she joined him in New Orleans in 2006 for the official launch of his candidacy - which Elizabeth skipped - Hunter told a pal that "it was one of the happiest nights of her life," according to the Enquirer.
"She felt like she was his first lady," the tabloid reported, quoting a source.
Me-ow!Wow, is she ever naive.
John Edwards' nasty mistress cattily dissed his cancer-stricken wife to a friend - and later coldly blamed the ailing spouse for getting her fired from a videography job on her lover's presidential campaign, a new report claims.
"She does not give off good energy," Rielle Hunter sneered of Elizabeth Edwards during a late 2006 lunch with Newsweek reporter Jonathan Darman, who was covering the campaign at the time.
"She didn't make eye contact with me."
Several months later, when Hunter was booted from her $100,000-plus job filming "Webisodes" on Edwards' campaign, she blasted Elizabeth Edwards, sniping, "Someday, the truth about her is going to come out," Darman wrote.
Hunter, 42, soon told the scribe she also was working on a "genius" TV-show idea involving "women who help men get out of failing marriages by having affairs with them."
When Hunter met with Darman again last summer, he asked her if she was dating anyone, and she allegedly replied, "I'm in love."
Coyly refusing to identify her beau, Hunter added, "I can't tell you [who], but maybe someday we'll all be friends," Darman recounted. Edwards claims their relationship ended in 2006.
It's not clear what the political fallout from the affair will be. But Edwards announced "through one of his staffers he would not be attending the [Democratic] convention in Denver," Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said on "Fox News Sunday."
Hunter had a thing for blabbing to writers. At a party about five years ago, she told a writer in California, "I am going to be famous, rich and famous. I'm going to meet a rich, powerful man."
"How are you going to do that?" asked Sarah Miller, who wrote about the conversation in the Los Angeles Times.
Hunter replied, "I'm going to manifest it."
An adherent of New Age spirituality and astrology, Hunter claimed that she has had many past lives, Darman said.
Hunter told Darman that when she met John Edwards, 55, in the bar of New York's Regency Hotel in 2006, he gave off a special "energy."
Later, Hunter claimed that the former North Carolina senator could become a "transformational leader" - comparable to Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Darman said.
"He had the power to change the world," Hunter told the writer.
Last month, she phoned in to MSNBC's "Hardball" to confront conservative firebrand Ann Coulter. A few weeks later, during an interview with Salon.com, she criticized the two leading Democratic candidates, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.), saying her husband would be a better advocate for women than Clinton and arguing that neither Clinton nor Obama had offered a compelling rationale for their candidacies.Sure, and I have some oceanfront property in North Dakota for sale.
Edwards said she is uncomfortable with all the attention those incidents received. "None of this was purposeful," she said. "Absolutely none. Zero."
She is a shopper. She likes to run by Target on Tuesdays, when the newest DVDs are released. On the campaign trail, she makes time for shopping detours, as she did last month in Iowa, unexpectedly getting out of the van and leaving her husband to go on alone to speak to a labor group.Ugh.
"She jumped out in the middle of an intersection," John Edwards explained in mock horror shortly after it happened.
"At the corner," she replied.
"Sweetie, but there were no crosswalks or anything," he said. "There were cars everywhere."
"I just waited until there were no cars, and I walked with the light," she said firmly.
All for a pair of socks for Father's Day.
When Mrs. Edwards called in to a television talk show this week to confront the conservative commentator Ann Coulter who had attacked Mr. Edwards this year, it was a decision that Mrs. Edwards said she made impulsively and on her own. The resulting dramatic four minutes of television created a surge of attention that at least momentarily electrified her husband’s campaign, winning applause from the left and apparently spiking contributions in the critical final days of this second-quarter fund-raising period.Anyone with a functioning brain knows the Coulter stunt was a pre-planned hit, so these reporters are either dangerously naive or just plain disingenuous. Even the Koslings figured that one out.
It also made Mrs. Edwards the sympathetic face of the Edwards campaign, for a few days overshadowing the candidate himself.
Similarly, Mrs. Edwards told gay leaders at a kick-off event for the San Francisco gay pride parade last week that she supported same-sex marriage, a position at variance with Mr. Edwards’s. He learned of her remarks from reading a newspaper, an aide said. Mrs. Edwards said that she was just offering her opinion, as well as an explanation for her husband’s more conservative views on the issue, in response to a question. But the interview, some Democrats said, had the political effect of at least appeasing some liberal Democrats over Mr. Edwards’s views of gay-rights issues.
Still, several campaign advisers said the sharpest change in Mrs. Edwards’s role was the extent to which she has become a public figure in her own right. There may be a risk to this, aides to the couple acknowledged, to the extent that Mrs. Edwards might at once overshadow and diminish her husband at a time when opponents have sought to portray him as intellectually weak.Nobody needs to portray him that way. He's doing an great job of it himself.
Elizabeth Edwards says she is scared of the "rabid, rabid Republican" who owns property across the street from her Orange County home -- and she doesn't want her kids going near the gun-toting neighbor.They've never met the guy, but already know they wouldn't be nice to him.
Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, particularly recalls the time neighbor Monty Johnson brought out a gun while chasing workers investigating a right of way near his property. The Edwards family has yet to meet Johnson in person.
"I wouldn't be nice to him, anyway," Edwards said in an interview. "I don't want my kids anywhere near some guy who, when he doesn't like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out. It scares the business out of me."
But Johnson defended the occasion he brandished a gun, saying those on his land didn't have the proper approval.
"I use the gun for protection, and I considered that an appropriate time," Johnson said. "Sometimes you have to take drastic measures."
Edwards views Johnson as a "rabid, rabid Republican" who refuses to clean up his "slummy" property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.
Johnson, 55, acknowledges his Republican roots. But he takes offense to the suggestion he has purposefully left his property, including an old garage he leases for use as a car shop, in dilapidated condition.
Johnson said he has lived his entire life on the property, which he said his family purchased before the Great Depression. He said he's spent a lot of money to try and fix up the 42-acre tract.
"I have to budget. I have to live within my means," Johnson said. "I don't have millions of dollars to fix the place."
Democratic White House hopeful John Edwards' team has been collecting e-mail addresses from supporters who've sent his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, notes - and using them for fund-raising requests, aides acknowledged yesterday.Maybe he'll try and blame it on his campaign manager, the lowlife David Bonior.
The link on Edwards' campaign Web site invites people to "send a note to Elizabeth and John" and features a sad letter from the former senator penned just after the couple found out her breast cancer had spread and is now incurable.
But people who've been sending such well wishes have been hit with e-mail solicitations from Team Edwards, asking for donations just as all candidates are looking to post big online fund-raising numbers.
John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat making a second bid for the presidency, announced late Wednesday night that he would hold a news conference Thursday, a day after he and his wife, Elizabeth, visited Mrs. Edwards? doctor to assess her health following her recovery from breast cancer.While I certainly am no fan of Edwards, we should all put politics aside and wish John and Elizabeth Edwards well and keep them in our prayers.
John Edwards said Thursday his wife's cancer has returned, but said he will continue his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"The campaign goes on. The campaign goes on strongly," Edwards told reporters, his wife by his side.
