Mug Shot of the Day: Silky Pony Edition

Hold on, just give him a second...

Okay, he's ready:


It really shouldn't be this hard to distinguish between a guy's mug shot and his official Senate photo.

John Edwards Indicted

This would have happened a couple of years ago if we had a press interested in investigating corrupt Democrats.

A federal grand jury has indicted two-time presidential candidate John Edwards in a campaign finance investigation.

The criminal charges filed Friday came after a two-year federal investigation into money used to cover up an extramarital affair during the 2008 presidential election.

Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina, said in a statement through his attorney in 2009 that he was confident no funds from his campaign were used improperly.

Disgraced Democrat Edwards Facing Indictment

He'll probably thrown himself on the mercy of the court claiming grieving widow status.

The United States Department of Justice has green-lighted the prosecution of former presidential candidate John Edwards for alleged violations of campaign laws while he tried to cover up an extra-marital affair, ABC News has learned.

A source close to the case said Edwards is aware that the government intends to seek an indictment and that the former senator from North Carolina is now considering his limited options. He could accept a plea bargain with prosecutors or face a potentially costly trial.

Edwards is so full of himself he'll probably cop a plea in return for little if no time and begin setting his sights on his future job at CNN or MSNBC.

Bad News for Silky Pony: 'It Would Be Surprising Now If He Wasn’t Indicted'

I doubt the Obama/Holder Justice Department is too eager to indict a prominent Democrat, but they may have no choice. Seeing this snake-oil salesman get his comeuppance will be most satisfying.

A two-year grand jury investigation of John Edwards has reached a decisive point. Prosecutors believe they have a strong case, but have not yet gotten a green light from the Justice Department to charge the former presidential candidate, NBC News has learned. The issue: did Edwards violate election laws by trying to cover up his affair with a campaign videographer, Rielle Hunter.

Sources close to the investigation say Justice Department attorneys are now conducting a final review of evidence, and an indictment could come within days or weeks. In what could be an ominous development for Edwards, prosecutors already are making arrangements to record the sworn testimony of a key witness for possible use in a future trial, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“It would be surprising now if he wasn’t indicted,” said Stephen Saltzburg, a former federal prosecutor and George Washington University law professor. “If John Edwards was aware that money was being paid to hide his mistress... and it was done to help his campaign, then he’s in trouble.”

Of course those defending Edwards will play the dead wife card in a bid for sympathy. Well, he should have thought about his kids while he was cheating on his wife.

Edwards’ friends in North Carolina say the timing could not be worse as “John has moved back into the family home so that he can take care of his children.”

“John is working everyday to be a good father and this is an inopportune time for this to occur, less than two months after the death of his children’s mother,” said a source close to the family. Edwards has 3 children: Cate, 28, Emma Claire, 12, and Jack, 10.

Rielle Hunter to Edwards Kids: 'Call Me Mommy'

My God, is this creepy or what? Really, a special place in Hell awaits this woman and that scumbag John Edwards.

John Edwards proposed to his baby mama, Rielle Hunter, during a holiday getaway -- and introduced her and their love child to his kids -- barely three weeks after their mother, Elizabeth Edwards, died of cancer, the National Enquirer reported yesterday.

The former Democratic presidential candidate brought his children -- Cate, 28, Jack, 10 and Emma Claire, 12 -- for the first meeting with his ex-campaign videographer and their 2-year-old half-sister, Frances Quinn Hunter, at a chain eatery called the Macaroni Grill in Charlotte, NC.

"After discussing it with a friend, Rielle said she decided to tell John's kids, 'Call me Mommy,'" the Enquirer reported, quoting a source close to the family.

The paper said the ex-North Carolina senator spent Christmas at his family's Chapel Hill home, then hauled his brood to a lodge near Charlotte, where Rielle, 46, lives with Frances Quinn.

Edwards, according to the Enquirer's source, had thought it was time for the still-grieving Jack and Emma to meet Frances Quinn. The two children had known of their half-sister, but Elizabeth had banned such a meeting from occurring, the source said.

The tabloid reported that Hunter wept with joy at the sight of the children together.

Edwards then "pledged his undying love" for his mistress and "promised her that one day, they would all 'become one big, happy family,' " according to an Enquirer source.

"Clearly, he was saying, 'I want you to marry me,' but nothing is official yet."

Finally: Silky Pony, The Movie

One can only imagine the bevy of A-list actors lining up to play a philandering ambulance chaser.

John Edwards' big affair is going to hit the big screen.

Andrew Young, the estranged aide who wrote a tell-all book about the former senator's sexcapades with mistress, and baby mama, Rielle Hunter, said he has sealed a movie deal with producer Aaron Sorkin.

Sorkin, best known for creating the television series "The West Wing," confirmed that he obtained the rights to Young's book, "The Politician," the Associated Press reported.

"This is a first-hand account of an extraordinary story filled with motivations, decisions and consequences that would have lit Shakespeare up," Sorkin said in a statement. "There's much more to Andrew's book than what has been reported and I'm grateful that he's trusting me with it."

Young said the job was perfect for Sorkin.

"I was really impressed by him and really impressed how he was focused on the tragedy of this rather than the tawdry," said Young who declined to guess who might play the leading roles.

Weird: 'Cherubim' Returns to Comment on John Edwards Stories

Last year we noted the sad saga of Elizabeth Edwards populating comment sections of blogs and online newspapers using the pseudonym Cherubim.Soon after that Cherubim disappeared from the web, and we figured that would be the last we see of her.

Well, today while reading this story in the NY Daily News, who pops up in the comments using basically the exact talking points to defend Edwards that used to appear from Cherubim while again plugging John Edwards YouTube clips.

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=uRNJlSxOHLE

Searching around, I also found this comment from 10 days ago.

Americans need to hear John Edwards to give this speech again.
“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.

You notice one of the videos is plugged both times.

The NYDN link references this story from the Daily Beast and you'll never guess who surfaces there.

If you do a search for "Cherubim John Edwards" you'll notice she went dark after being exposed last September and just now has resurfaced. If indeed Elizabeth Edwards is commenting and promoting that sleazebag it's just incredibly sad.

Update: Looking back to when the original surfaced, there was some arguments that Elizabeth Edwards was not Cherubim, but there was little follow-up to the story. Oddly enough, however, it appears Cherubim has been dark for nine months, only to pop up again commenting on a John Edwards story. Whoever Cherubim is, he/she appears to be obsessed with the Silky Pony.

'Falling In Love With You Could Really F--k Up My Plans for Becoming President'

That may be the most truthful thing the Silky Pony has ever uttered. Who knows, if he's dealt the wrong cards he may even wind up in prison one of these days.

John Edwards' mistress has revealed for the first time how the illicit lovers fell in lust and slept together the night they met -- and claims the presidential candidate predicted the wild romp would cause his premature ejection from politics.

"Falling in love with you could really f- - - up my plans for becoming president," Edwards told vixen videographer Rielle Hunter after their sexual tryst at Manhattan's Regency hotel in February 2006.

In her bombshell interview with GQ, Hunter says:

* Her first words to him were "You're so hot" -- and they had sex later that night in his hotel room.

* Edwards was scared to death of his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, fearing if she knew the truth, "he would be pummeled."

* The then-presidential candidate hoped Hunter, pregnant with his child, would get an abortion.

Contrary to various accounts of their affair, Hunter, 45, told the magazine she met the former North Carolina senator on the corner of 61st Street and Park Avenue in February 2006, and did not pick him up at a bar.

She had spotted him earlier in the lounge of The Regency hotel, but they did not speak.

"I did not know who he was," Hunter said. "The John Edwards I saw in 2004 on TV I believed to be a disconnected, two-dimensional geek kind of guy. And the man sitting across the room was not that at all."

After learning who he was, she gave her business card to one of Edwards' aides.

"It said, 'Rielle Hunter. Being is free,' " she recalled.

Edwards, 56, later looked for her at the lounge and was disappointed she was gone, she said.

"So when he walked around the corner [again] and saw me standing there, he lit up like a Christmas tree. And I thought his reaction when he saw me was just so cute," she said. "I mean, he looked like a little kid at Christmas. And I just uttered to him, 'You're so hot.' And he said, 'Why, thank you!' And he almost jumped into my arms. Literally."

Later that night, Hunter said, he invited her to his hotel room.

She said she told the friends she was with, " 'I won't sleep with him.' And so I went over to his room, and I walked in. And I. Was. Terrified. Because I had never experienced anything like what was flowing between us."

"Come closer. I won't bite you," Edwards beckoned.

Can this sordid tale get any weirder? You bet.

When Edwards denied he was the baby's father in interviews and his aide Andrew Young came forward to claim paternity, Hunter said she was heartbroken but understood.

Edwards "was traumatized," she said. "Because he had been living a life that was now exposed. A hidden life, when it is exposed, is a traumatic event for the person going through it. And they're not in their right mind."

She said Young was willing to take the fall for Edwards because "Andrew was in love with Johnny.

"In love with him. Beyond. And I believe he loved Johnny more than he loved [his own wife] Cheri, so Johnny was the third person in their relationship."

Aww: Edwards and Baby Mama Engaged

Well, I guess his divorce has to go through first.

John Edwards has proposed to his mistress Rielle Hunter, and is buying a luxury $3.5 million beachfront home where they can live happily ever after with their love child, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

The disgraced presidential candidate popped the question at the same time he told Rielle that he'd be issuing a press statement finally confirming he fathered her daughter Frances Quinn, close sources told The ENQUIRER.

Edwards, 56, released that statement on Jan. 21, and just six days later a spokesperson for his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth confirmed the couple had legally separated after 32 years of marriage. Sources say they expect to be officially divorced within a year, paving the way for the ex-senator to make Rielle, 45, his wife.

"John dropped the proposal bomb on Rielle shortly before he issued his statement" that he was indeed Frances' father, a close source divulged.

Before anyone dismisses the Enquirer report, just remember Edwards would probably now be the Attorney General or another cabinet member if it weren't for their reporting.

Palin's Uterine Stalker Offers Apology

No, he doesn't actually apologize for his creepy, obsessive behavior when it comes to the bizarre fascination with Trig Palin. He laments not seeing John Edwards for the fraud he is. Funny, but the rest of the planet knew Edwards was a lowlife while at the same time we all know Trig really is Sarah's son. He promises to get to the bottom of that eventually.

I've been thinking about what seems to me a double standard in my treatment of vice-presidential frauds, with respect to Sarah Palin and John Edwards, and trying to figure out where I went wrong. No, I'm not backtracking on Palin: all I regret is not being able to expose her for real yet. But I'm a blogger not an investigative reporter; my job as I see it, is to make sense of the facts on the table and disseminate them, not to do the vital legwork to get new facts. And there's also the obvious fact that Palin was a total unknown and we had only two months to figure out who she was, especially since she wasn't vetted by McCain in any serious way.

It didn't take two months before he ran with the unfounded rumor that Trig was not Sarah's baby, and now 18 months later he still promises to get to the bottom of a non-story.

Let it go already.

With Palin, people assumed that because she was a governor, she had a baseline level of competence, logic, general knowledge and mental stability. Wrong. On the Trig stuff, it was just too absurd to doubt her story, however factually implausible it appeared.

A mentally ill man is now questioning Sarah Palin's mental stability. A question for The Atlantic: Why is this man still employed by you?

I'm not the only one questioning his sanity.

As much as I generally enjoy Sullivan, I think I have to call bullsh*t here: how is spending twelve months-plus relentless questioning (with zero proof, it should be noted) the parentage of Trig Palin not an investigation of someone’s private life and/or something that “coarsens our discourse, violates human dignity.” It’s not.

How far has Sullivan fallen? Well, some obscure blog is only four spots behind Sullivan.

Edwards: From Cheater to Wife Beater

I always took John Edwards as way too dainty and delicate to raise his hand to a woman, let alone a man. But lately we've found out what an absolute piece of human garbage he is, so I tend to believe this story.

Disgraced former presidential candidate John Edwards reportedly beat his cancer-stricken wife during a horrific marriage-ending fight.

"John lost his temper big time," a close friend of Elizabeth's revealed to the National Enquirer. "She has the divorce papers drawn up, but she can amend them to charge John with domestic violence."

The couple's furious confrontation was the "final straw" in Elizabeth's decision to end their 32-year marriage after it was revealed that he had fathered a child out of wedlock with his ex-mistress Rielle Hunter, the newspaper revealed today in a bombshell report on its Web site.

"When [John] made the decision to hit me, it was over," a friend said Elizabeth told her.

Last month, Edwards finally admitted that he had fathered Hunter's 2-year-old daughter Frances.

Another friend revealed that Elizabeth sometimes also phycially [sic] attacked her husband when talking about his affair with Hunter.

"She was so tormented by John's cheating and lies that she lashed out physically at him many times, even slapping him," said a friend. "On a couple of occasions, when the fights became heated, she grabbed him by the shoulders and screamed, 'Why, why, why?!'

Any casual observer of the scene knew what a greaseball Edwards was when he first ran for office, an ambulance-chasing fantasist who was able to con jurors and then gullible voters. The media pretended never to notice since he was a Democrat, one of them. Now the entirety of the Washington press corps sits there wondering "Gee, if I had a shred of decency, I could have exposed this guy and made a bundle," but they sold their souls to the Democratic Party, so too damn bad for them.

Edwards should forever be shunned, but there'll always be an outlet of gullible dupes there for him. Kind of like MSNBC. The people watching know it's nonsense, but they can't shake their thirst for the Kool-aid.

Edwards was right in one instance: There are two Americas. One is where men are decent human beings, respect their marriage vows and don't hit women. Then there's the dark, seamy underbelly occupied by scumbags like Edwards.

'All I Could Think About Was Vince Foster'

Imagine spending your waking hours living in fear of John Edwards. One can only imagine the horrifying images of being bludgeoned with a blow-dryer or suffering the toxic effects of excessive hairspray inhalation.

John Edwards' former flunky says he's been offered "gigantic amounts of money" for a sordid sex tape of the failed presidential candidate and his mistress.

"And we've said no," Andrew Young said Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Young wouldn't say who offered the big bucks, but Edwards' alleged co-star in the X-rated flick, Rielle Hunter, is trying to get her mitts on the tape.

"I'm not clear anything she's asking for is hers," said Young.

Young, who is flogging a tawdry tell-all book about his days with the ex-North Carolina senator called "The Politician," said he found the sex tape just months before the January 2008 Iowa caucus.

It was in a box left in a home that Young said he and his wife, Cheri, briefly shared with Hunter, whom Edwards hired to film his failed presidential bid.

"I could not have told this story without including this sex tape," said Young, who also claims to have phone messages from Edwards to back up his seamy story.

The ex-aide said the video clearly shows Edwards in the middle of a "sexual encounter" with a visibly pregnant woman wearing a thumb ring similar to one that Hunter often wears.

Cheri Young said Hunter's face was not visible in the video.

Hunter went on to bear a daughter by Edwards named Quinn, who is now 2 and living with her in Charlotte, N.C.

In his book, Young - a married father of three - admits he was so blinded by loyalty to Edwards he tried to take the fall for his boss by claiming he was Quinn's daddy.

Young said that after he told Edwards he was done with the charade, he began to fear for his life - especially when the senator showed up "out of the blue" and took him for a ride.

"All I could think about was Vince Foster," Young told "GMA," referring to the former President Clinton aide whose suicide sparked speculation that maybe he was rubbed out to cover up a White House scandal.

"For several months, I used to get up at 3 a.m. and walk around the house with a baseball bat and a knife," Young said.

Asked if he personally feared the pretty boy senator whom critics dubbed "The Breck Girl," Young said no.

"But was I scared, genuinely scared, for me and my family," he said.

'We Just Fell on the Floor'

Excellent news: The John Edwards sex tape is in a safe place. Let's all hope it stays there, never to be seen.

Andrew Young, the ex-aide to embattled two-time former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, says he has an alleged sex tape depicting the former senator and his then-mistress Rielle Hunter – and that the tape is in a safe-deposit box.

"We were offered millions for that stupid tape," he tells PEOPLE. He says he and his wife Cheri found the tape in "a box of trash filled with crinkled paper and tapes" left behind by Hunter. He says they never considered selling it: "We couldn't live with ourselves."

Young, 43, served as an aide to Edwards for more than nine years. Just before the 2008 presidential primaries began, he agreed – at Edwards' behest, he says – to publicly claim paternity for the baby being carried by Hunter, 45. Young details the deception in his new tell-all book, The Politician, out today.

On Jan. 21, Edwards – who told PEOPLE on Jan. 27 that he still "deeply cares" about Elizabeth – admitted that he is the father of Hunter's 2-year-old daughter, Frances Quinn.

Young says that when he and Cheri first watched the sex tape – which was marked "special" – "we just fell on the floor. We were agape." Adds Cheri: "It was disappointing to see the person you had such hopes and dreams for be so careless."

Young sounds like a really loyal guy. He won't sell the tape but he'll gladly dish dirt on Edwards to anyone who'll listen.

Ewww: John Edwards Has a Sex Tape

Half of it probably involves himself preening for the camera and combing his hair.

Sources have told us that, in the throes of their affair, John Edwards and Rielle Hunter made a sex tape that contains "several sex acts." And that his aide, Andrew Young found it on an unmarked DVD.

The tape, say both our sources, is explicit and reveals that Edwards "is physically very striking, in a certain area. Everyone who sees it says 'whoa'. She's behind the camera at first."

When rumors of the affair first broke Young was so loyal to Edwards that he pretended that he was the father of Hunter's daughter Frances Quinn, now 2. But part of Young's disillusionment with the 2004 vice presidential candidate and 2008 candidate came one day as he went through a stack of DVDs at Rielle Hunter's house.

It was this betrayal that prompted Young to write his tell-all book, The Politician, out February 2. Background: The New York Daily News reported last June that Young mentioned the existence of the tape in his book proposal. It's expected that he'll reveal further details in that story, and in the 20/20 interview to promote it, to air on Friday. "It [the tape] was kind of the last straw for people who had sacrificed savings and jobs to lie for John," said one of our sources. "You should expect to see plenty more stories about him coming out of the woodwork when more people realize how... complicated... his motivations were."

No, this isn't the tape, but a nice blast from the past.

'An Abusive, Intrusive, Paranoid, Condescending Crazywoman'

So Elizabeth Edwards was "an abusive, intrusive, paranoid, condescending crazywoman," although the fawning mainstream media willfully ignored her behavior as well as her husbands for many year, instead preferring to portray them as some loving power couple more concerned with the downtrodden. It took the National Enquirer and bloggers to do the dirty work exposing these frauds. But hey, now the truth can be told so the authors of a book can cash in. Nothing like not doing your job then but alerting readers now.

I wonder how their employers feel that they didn't do their jobs back when Edwards was a presidential candidate?

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.

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.

Media bias? What media bias?

'Get a Doctor to Fake the DNA Results'

Good grief, the depravity of this man is just off the charts. To think the media enabled this behavior for years, proving they have as much credibility as he does.

A flunky for philandering former Sen. John Edwards says the failed presidential candidate ordered him to arrange a fake paternity test.

Andrew Young's claim came as Edwards, who has repeatedly denied fathering a daughter with his mistress, finally admitted he lied.

Edwards' lie was exposed as NBC News reported that he and his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, had separated.

Seems the Edwards admission is nothing more than a pre-emptive strike of sorts.

Edward's admission came a week before ABC News' "20/20" was to air an exclusive interview with Young, who at one point in the scandal tried to take the fall for his boss by claiming he was Quinn's daddy. He later admitted that too was a lie.

Young told ABC News' Bob Woodruff that Edwards was desperate to distance himself from Quinn.

"Get a doctor to fake the DNA results," Young said Edwards told him. "And he asked me ... to steal a diaper from the baby so he could secretly do a DNA test to find out if this indeed his child."

You know what would be nice? For Edwards to spend a little time behind bars.

A former senator from North Carolina and fallen Democratic Party star, Edwards still faces a federal grand jury investigation into whether he used campaign money to buy Hunter's silence. He has denied raiding campaign coffers to shut his honey up.

Shocking: John Edwards Admits Paternity

Actually this might have been shocking in 2008, when everyone on the planet already knew he had a love child. I guess he figures all the election hubbub from the other night gives him good cover to admit it now.

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.

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.

Cherubim was unavailable for comment.

Elizabeth Edwards Targets Rielle Hunter in Blog Comments?

You really have to pity Elizabeth Edwards. Terminally ill and married to a two-timing bum, it seems she's been reduced to anonymously trashing Rielle Hunter in comments left under a pseudonym on blogs.

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.

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.

Sure enough, 'Cherubim' did seem to get around. Here she is at the Huffington Post in May 2009.

Cherubim I'm a Fan of Cherubim I'm a fan of this user 19 fans permalink

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 ?
Cherubim I'm a Fan of Cherubim I'm a fan of this user 19 fans permalink

But, for Bill Clinton everything is just find.
Eh, Right.

Cherubim I'm a Fan of Cherubim I'm a fan of this user 19 fans permalink
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.

Here's 'Cherubim' at the Hollywood Gossip.

Cherubim Says:

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:

In 2008 'Cherubim' paid a visit to Death by 1000 Papercuts.

Cherubim said:
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

Yes, it's a safe bet to say this probably is Mrs. Edwards.

Check this Google search and check out how many times 'Cherubim' surfaced the past year or so. Seems Mrs. Edwards has been in deep denial.

Update: Welcome Gawker, NY Mag Daily Intel, Politico and Political Wire readers. Please note someone claiming to be Cherubim showed up and left comments today. While we don't assert this person is Elizabeth Edwards, note these claims for the original story are coming from someone who says they know her. We're just passing this along. If you have a beef, take it up with the Daily News and Andrew Young. It's not as if Mrs. Edwards was unfamiliar with blogs. After all, she was a Daily Kos poster some time ago. As I noted earlier, just do a little research and Google Cherubim and you'll see how many places this person made comments at.

ACORN Hires John Edwards Fundraiser to Investigate Itself

More hijinks from the criminal enterprise at ACORN. They've hired an allegedly "independent" investigator to look into all their shady activities, namely former Massachusetts Attorney general Scott Harshbarger.

Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger has been hired by ACORN to conduct an inquiry into the organization on the heels of a video that appears to show employees advising a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie about the source of their income to get housing assistance.

Harshbarger, an attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP, is also the former president and chief executive of Common Cause, the good government organization.

“I have been asked by the leadership of ACORN to conduct an independent and comprehensive inquiry and review of the management of its service delivery to communities,” Harshbarger said in a statement. “The CEO and board have also asked me to make a full report, including recommendations for restoring ACORN’s full capacities to carry out its mission on behalf of low- and moderate-income families.”

Sorry, but a guy who was a chief fundraiser for the slimy John Edwards and who donated money to ACORN's pal Barack Obama doesn't exactly strike me as someone who's independent.

Harshbarger currently is an attorney in Boston with the law firm Proskauer Rose LLP, where his specialties include corporate governance and corporate defense and investigations. He was a fundraiser for former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign, and donated $2,800 to Obama's campaign after Edwards left the race.

Seems to me Common Cause isn't quite up to their mantle of being a good government organization either, since they're in the business of making excuses for ACORN's phony voter registrations.

Accusations of stolen votes have a long history in presidential elections. In the 2000 recount debacle that led to George W. Bush winning the presidency, Republicans claimed illegal ballots were cast. Democrats contended that legal ballots were thrown out. In 2004, when the presidential vote came down to Ohio in the state-by-state process of the U.S. presidential election, Democrats charged that long lines and malfunctioning machines in that state led to an inaccurate count.

But in this contest, involving the first African-American in American history with a real chance at becoming president, the vitriol is particularly pointed.

"This is all just one big head-fake," said Tova Wang of the government watchdog group Common Cause. "What silliness this is, at this point. It's all about creating this perception that there is a tremendous problem with voter fraud in this country, and it's not true."

Maybe Wang can explain the arrests earlier this month of 11 ACORN workers in Florida for falsifying hundreds of voter registration forms.

Funny, isn't it, that the man Harshbarger was a fundraiser for last year addressed ACORN's convention.

Former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards called it a "moral shame" that 37 million Americans live in poverty, but committed to lifting them out by working with ACORN to raise wages and supporting Sen. Barack Obama for president.

"We can walk together and end the great shame of poverty in the United States," Edwards told nearly 2,000 ACORN members Monday, June 23, the final day of the group's National Convention at the Cobo Center. Edwards serves as chair of the ACORN-affiliated "Half in Ten" campaign to cut poverty in half in the U.S. within 10 years.

Edwards called the upcoming presidential election one of the most important elections in American history, telling ACORN members that "everything we believe in is at stake this fall." To the organizers in the crowd, he said, "There's one person who's been an organizer and who needs you to organize for him now, and that person is Barack Obama."

Maybe when the independent Harshbarger is done "investigating" ACORN he can get around to independently investigating John Edwards funneling campaign money to Rielle Hunter and why Edwards is still spending campaign money.

Nothing short of a special prosecutor investigating ACORN is going to engender the public trust. ACORN appointing their own hand-picked man is a joke and should rightly be seen as such.

Former Aide Says Edwards Fathered Baby

More confirmation of the world's worst kept secret.

A man who once claimed he fathered the child of John Edwards' mistress now says in a book proposal that the former presidential candidate is the baby's father.

The New York Times reported Saturday that political donors made payments to the woman. The claims are all in a book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young, who says he facilitated the affair between Edwards and Rielle Hunter.

The newspaper reports Young wrote that Edwards told Hunter they would marry after Edwards' wife died. His wife, Elizabeth, has cancer.

Edwards has denied he fathered the child. He has acknowledged that federal investigators are looking into his campaign funds.

It would simply be nice if Edwards would man up and admit what everyone already knows.

C'mon, Johnny, show a pair.

More from the Times.

At the same time, Mr. Edwards is moving toward an abrupt reversal in his public posture; associates said in interviews that he is considering declaring that he is the father of Ms. Hunter’s 19-month-old daughter, something that he once flatly asserted in a television interview was not possible.

An abrupt reversal? Geez, if he waited any longer the kid would be ready for college.

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