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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (39648)	8/14/2008 10:13:32 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

Don't you want someone advising the pres who is wise to the world?..not naive and ineffective? Sadly, IMO those last two words describe Obama.

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (39648)	8/15/2008 12:48:28 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224750

As tabloid reports of a sex scandal threatened former Senator John Edwards’s presidential campaign last December on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, two lawyers surfaced with written statements that appeared to exonerate the candidate. One of them, Robert J. Gordon of New York, said that his client, Rielle Hunter, a pregnant 43-year-old filmmaker, was not carrying Mr. Edwards’s child. Shortly thereafter, the other lawyer, Pamela J. Marple of Washington, sent word that her client, Andrew Young, an Edwards campaign aide, was the baby’s father. Seemingly issued independently of Mr. Edwards, the statements appeared to deflate the anonymously sourced reports of an Edwards tryst. But what went unnoticed was that the two lawyers shared an important connection to Mr. Edwards that suggests they were part of an orchestrated effort to protect him, one that is continuing even after he admitted last week that he had an affair with Ms. Hunter but denied that he fathered her child. The lawyers are linked through Fred Baron, a wealthy Dallas lawyer and former finance chairman for the Edwards campaign who was a key player in the campaign’s response to the scandal. Mr. Gordon has worked with Mr. Baron on class-action personal injury cases, and Ms. Marple helped defend a lawsuit brought against both men and their law firms by an asbestos manufacturer. After initially saying that he did not know how the lawyers were chosen to represent Ms. Hunter and Mr. Young, Mr. Baron acknowledged that he might have played a role. The revelations of ties among the lawyers emerged through public records and interviews with people close to Mr. Edwards and Ms. Hunter, which suggested that their affair went on longer than Mr. Edwards admitted and that the effort to conceal it by Mr. Edwards’s inner circle was much more extensive than has been reported. The review found that Mr. Edwards’s political action committee went to unusual lengths to make a final $14,000 payment to Ms. Hunter’s film company months after its contract with the committee had ended. The payment was issued while the committee was short on cash and could pay its bills only after receiving thousands of dollars from Mr. Edwards’s presidential campaign and donations from four people, including Mr. Baron’s wife. Furthermore, a woman who helped Ms. Hunter create a Web site on New Age spirituality in 2006 says she regularly corresponded with her about a married North Carolina man named John whom Ms. Hunter was dating in March of that year, if not earlier. Mr. Edwards has said his affair with Ms. Hunter did not begin until after she had started doing video work for his political action committee months later.

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (39648)	8/15/2008 12:49:16 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224750

demoRATs trust edwardsboy ???

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (39648)	8/15/2008 12:50:09 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

The woman, Pigeon O’Brien, who says she worked with Ms. Hunter to build her “Being Is Free” Web site and a related foundation, said that Ms. Hunter recounted how she had met “John” at the Regency Hotel in New York in early 2006 and that they had started dating soon after. Ms. O’Brien said that Ms. Hunter made at least one trip to North Carolina in March 2006 to visit him and that, during the next few months, she never made any references to Mr. Young, who later claimed to be the father of the child, or indicated that she even knew him. Ms. O’Brien recalled that Ms. Hunter, whom she had originally met in the 1980s in New York, had difficulties in dealing with the fact that John was married. “There were stormy moments for her, a lot of tears and a lot of struggle,” Ms. O’Brien said. Mr. Gordon, Ms. Hunter’s lawyer, declined to comment, citing the privacy of Ms. Hunter and her baby.