If possible, after watching the interview, I like Edwards more. Rec if you agree.

I think he handled himself with dignity and pride i that interview.

I supported him, and still believe his plans for America are the best of any candidate. Barack and Hillary's fall far short of John's.

But, if John McCain's dumping of his crippled wife and family is acceptable to America, and he's qualified to be President, so is John Edwards. At least Edwards has not deserted his family like John McCain did. But two wrongs do not make a right.

But in the hypocrisy that is the Republican Party, they will likely condemn Edwards for the very same thing they are ignoring about McCain. And I cannot tolerate that. If Edwards is vile for this act, then so are McCain, Gingrich, Clinton, and all the rest. There cannot be a double standard, all must be judged the same.

Personally, I think it's time for the media and government to get the hell out of people's bedrooms. But I don't see that happening until we get our priorities straight.

And in a world where government works as it should, and our priorities are straight, we would have never had 7.5 years of Bush in the White House.

We need change, and we know the Republicans aren't going to bring it. Which is why Democrats must fight back to level the playing field. We don't have the luxury of a syndicate of broadcasters to get our message out like the GOP does. It's time for the Dems to stop being pushed around.

What? To me his message was "I'm a victim".

Any more than it fixed it when Jimmy Swaggart cried "I've sinned against you, Lord."

When John gives back all his contributors the money he collected after he lied last October about the affair, THEN I'll be receptive to his humility. He stole money from contributors to pay his paramour off, and laundered a bunch of it first. He has a long way to go to make this right.

I thought he was the same old self-serving, smarmy guy I always thought he was, and a total phony. That said, I'm much more disgusted with him for his pro-war cheerleading both before and after the IWR. He supported bushcheney for fucking years.

John Edwards is a lightweight. He sucked as a Senator. He sucked as a vp candidate and he sucked as a presidential candidate.

What he does now is completely inconsequential.

I must humbly disagree.

and he did support bushcheney over it. He did introduce and IWR with holy joe. He did serve as a conservative/centrist. And he can't be compared with the real liberals in the Senate with whom he served.

I think he is still lying.

And he had to bring up that McCain did it too and that he wasn't the only one to do it in history and Elizabeth was in remission and everyone told him he was so great for so many years and he didn't love her and he was poor as a kid and on and on and on.

Why did he go meet with this woman just last month? Does he really expect us to believe he is unaware of money being given to this woman?

I don't care about the fact of the affair.
But the lying is shameless and pathetic. I am very disappointed.

Edit for typo.

Is that true?

At least not as a candidate.

John looked terrible, understandibly so. There was a vulnerability about him
that he didn't have before, a weakness.

Sure, he had 'rehearsed' responses... he's a lawyer, they know how to
'hedge' an answer.

But in no way was he prepared for this stinkin' mess.

I'm sure the other shoe will drop, in one way or another.

I don't understand why the public has this need to know every
detail about someone else's sordid mess....

But.. to the many folks who are angry, full of blame for both
John and Elizabeth... hold your fire. Unless you've walked in
their shoes, you can't condemn. Yes, John did a stupid thing.
Yes, John lied, and Elizabeth was complicit in holding back
some kind of truth. But when we love, we protect those we love.
Only love can heal this wound. They both have a long way to go,
but then, we as a nation do too.