The news that former presidential candidate John Edwards admitted that he lied about having an extra-marital affair was rightly met with generally universal condemnation. However, a writer for a Hollywood-oriented website takes a different view.
In Hollywood Today's online magazine, Jody Babydol Gibson writes,
We are not privy to the marital woes of John and Elizabeth Edwards; nor do we have access to the skeletons in their marital closet. It is no secret Elizabeth’s brave battle as a cancer survivor is enough of a cross to bare; but how do we know the way in which they chose to deal with it? It is not implausible to assume that her unfortunate health issues have left a very handsome young John Edwards without any intimacy or sexual outlet whatsoever.
Other men having been in a similar situation have actually received permission from their wives who understood the pain and loneliness of supporting a loved one without the love, and it is not unusual for an understanding wife who realizes the hardships involved to allow her husband the affair as long as its carried out in a discreet fashion keeping it far from their personal lives at home.
You know the saying- “don’t judge a man until you’ve walked in his shoes.”
Yes, you can say that about people in life in general, but the Edwards matter may go into regions that could be open to legal penalties.
Rielle Hunter was hired to produce videos for the Edwards campaign website. Her experience can be best decribed as "novice." How many novice videographers are hired at the healthy sum of $150,000? Was this amount really for videos or to keep quiet about the affair? If it was for the latter, then that is hush money and that is bribery, a felony. Also, if the money was for keeping quiet, and Andrew Young (a former Edwards aide and the confessed "father" of Hunter's baby) and Edwards are also working together to keep this arrangement under wraps, then that is conspiracy. Another felony.
If Edwards, Young and Hunter state to investigators that it was for video work, and evidence to the contrary is discovered, that can be construed as obstruction of justice. Another felony.
Then there's also the reported $15,000 a month payments Hunter and Young are receiving. According to Fox News:
Fred Baron, a Dallas lawyer and former campaign finance chairman for Edwards, secretly provided financial help to both Hunter and Young. He apparently paid with his own funds and has told other news outlets Edwards did not know about the arrangement.
Edwards said he learned of the payments through reporters and that he "had no knowledge" of the payouts outside of that.
The payments reportedly have been towering — $15,000 a month to Hunter, according to reports, plus other payments to Young.
Really? Why would someone pay Hunter and Young $15,000/month? Something's fishy in Texas, folks! One cannot accept Edward's denials of knowledge of this since he's already been caught in his web of lies. His interview on ABC Friday night was scripted (most likely by his attorneys).
Yes, it is one thing to say that one needs to walk in another man's shoes concerning his personal life, but when the affair reaches into possible criminal territory, that's a whole different ball of wax.
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