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Minimus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:31 PM
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Why is Hunter refusing the paternity test?
WASHINGTON - The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards said Saturday she will not participate in DNA testing to establish the paternity of her daughter.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26112505/
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:33 PM
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1. Did ya see this? This whole thing is a total WTF.
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Minimus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:35 PM
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4. I had not seen that! It is a total WTF.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:37 PM
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7. i have to think this is all about book deals at this point for everybody.
her family, herself and who knows who else.
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Minimus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:49 PM
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10. Her family says one thing - she says another. Apparently they do not communicate.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:50 PM
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11. i'm thinking her family is working on their own and probably has agents lined up.
how much you want to bet at least one of them will be on fox next week?
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:13 PM
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26. To prove paternity would give the father parental rights.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:15 PM
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27. ok but what does that have to with her family, they're demanding and she isn't.
what am i missing?
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geiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:34 PM
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2. she changed her name, too. she sounds creepy to me.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:58 PM
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14. Yes, all women who change their names are "creepy."
:eyes:
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Peregrine Took Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:59 PM
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15. Yes, Johnnie picked himself quite a gal...quite a little ole gal. n/t
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:35 PM
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3. probably being paid off by the real dad under the table
otherwise why would you not want to establish paternity if the possible father is someone rich who can kick in support?

follow the money...

the real father doesn't want to be named and i'm guessing is paying VERY handsomely to stay out of this
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:01 PM
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17. Riiiiight! nt
:thumbsup:
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:36 PM
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5. She has never been the one pushing the story public. If she loves him she'll still be faithful to
Edited on Sat Aug-09-08 07:36 PM by blm
the story that he is not the father. It's very likely that she still loves him and is honoring her promise to him. Her family probably has a different view out of natural protective instincts.

Just assessing human nature.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:37 PM
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6. Who cares. It's her child, her body and her personal matter.
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nancyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:40 PM
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8. You're totally right.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:43 PM
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9. you're right and she should clue in her family that's demanding Edwards take a paternity test
to maybe shut up and let her handle her life.
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bbinacan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:55 PM
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12. Because she was paid off
by Edwards that night at the hotel.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:16 PM
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28. Bingo.
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az chela Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:58 PM
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13. i am guessing John met with her 2 weeks ago at the hotel
to pay her to not have the test.He agreed to have it and probably knew she wouldnt do it.MONEY TALKS.But I dont have a clue if any of this is even close to the truth
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Minimus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:00 PM
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16. It does cause much speculation.
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Peregrine Took Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:01 PM
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18. He could feel the net closing in. He was desperate and the fact he went in
person indicates ole Reille aka Lisa must have insisted on it.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:02 PM
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19. Money does not last.. especially in California.. she'll be back for more...later
If Edwards is smart, he will have the test , and have the results "stored" at a reputable facility, and then throw the ball in her court...and then end the whole mess by saying so.. If she takes him up and it's a match, we start the "bonus round".. If she declines, he's off the hook.. of course, once the kid's a bit older and can read, SHE may instigate a test..
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:20 PM
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31. That's what I think too
he looks good by agreeing but knows that test will never be done cause she's paid off to say no.
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onetinsoldier Donating Member (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:34 PM
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39. paternity test
this is exactly what i thought as soon as i heard the news,i also believe elizabeth is in on the fix,i do not think john told elizabeth about this in 2006,i believe there is a good chance the baby is john's the reason he has to lie about this is the timing of the baby's birth would prove he was fooling around after elizabeth's cancer came back which REALLY looks bad also it would prove he was recklessly fooling around in the midst of the campaign with thousands of true believers killing themselves for him while he was jeopardizing the campaign,the woman had him in a trap and he could not trust her to go silently in the night even with money(this is called living on the face of the earth),so he said he would do a paternity test knowing riele would not,elizabeth looked at the entire picture and went along,one last thing there are no greater hypocrites on earth than small town southerners i'm sorry been there,done that
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:03 PM
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20. To protect her lover's political career.
:shrug:
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:10 PM
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24. What political career?
His is over.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:12 PM
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25. His credibility will be even worse if it turns out
he fathered a child out of wedlock while his wife was coping with breast cancer.
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:40 PM
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42. Good
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:22 PM
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33. He'll try to revive it
they always do. Politicians can't help themselves, it's their "calling"...they're addicted to it. x(
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:39 PM
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41. Just like he tried to revive his political career
when he "changed" his DLC voting self into the man who would cure poverty?
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:57 PM
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44. I never bought into it.
I would have supported him if he got the nomination, but I don't like politicians who reinvent themselves.
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 09:31 PM
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45. You and I may not have bought into it
But many others did, unfortunately.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:04 PM
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21. Maybe she just wants the press to go away and let it be a private matter.
In her shoes that's what I'd do for the sake of my child, who after all is the only one who has a true stake in the matter.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:06 PM
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22. I suspect she's afraid of the pain it would cause
Edited on Sat Aug-09-08 08:16 PM by lwfern
Trying to cram the noses of an entire nation into one woman's uterus would probably hurt like hell.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:19 PM
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30. I doubt there's much of any public interest in there anymore.
:shrug:
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elfin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:10 PM
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23. Because she knows the money dump will end
Either via an "Edwards supporter" or Edwards himself via indirect route when it proves he is not the father.

All about the money in the end game.

She can write a quickie book (Regan Publishing?) and have it on the the end table at Rupert's outlets (Barnes and Noble?) in time for the election and make enough bucks quick to put into her 401K.




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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:18 PM
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29. Because it's her body and she has a right to refuse?
Shocking, isn't it? How dare she?
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:20 PM
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32. What's HER body got to do with a paternity test??
Seems hyperbole is running amok around here. :shrug:

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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:25 PM
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37. Well, everybody seems to be frightfully upset with the woman because of her body.
Not to mention the startling revelation that politicians actually lie.
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:24 PM
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34. What does it have to do with HER body
the test is done on the baby.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:26 PM
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38. OK. Substitute her child.
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itsrobert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:24 PM
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35. Because it's not Edwards' child
Her blackmail game has been outed. Maybe the check from the National Enquirer she got will provide a a couple years for her and her child?
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:24 PM
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36. I dunno. What do you propose: waterboarding her to find out?
Sure seems to be a matter vital to national security..........
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shawmut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:39 PM
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40. Money talks
Edited on Sat Aug-09-08 08:42 PM by wxmike
paternity test walks. Knew this would be her response when Edwards said he would get tested last night. He is still lying. :puke:
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 08:45 PM
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43. She's
SMART.

END IT. NO tv interviews.
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Generator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 09:57 PM
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46. Because Edwards is the father and
she wants to protect him. Because she loves him. Because she already has a money plan worked out. Or maybe because he's not the dad and she knows it but that makes no sense now does it?

But anyway-I'm already forgiving-I don't know why. I guess because for all this shit, Edwards is not pure evil like the rest of the fuckers running this country. I hate what has happened to this country. Edwards is just an AVERAGE dick. Dick Cheney and Bush are idiots and pure evil. They don't even have the humanity to have an affair. They are stone cold creeps.
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Dan Donating Member (595 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 10:44 PM
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47. Maybe, just maybe because it is none of our business...
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 10:56 PM
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50. A Winner Emerges. -NT-
Jay
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 10:44 PM
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48. because it is none of our business? n/t
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Neshanic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 10:47 PM
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49. Check writing is continuing, as is direct deposit.
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 11:45 PM
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51. Looks like she could benefit from the extra cash--civil suit in NJ
Edited on Sat Aug-09-08 11:46 PM by rainbow4321
To the tune of $9600. She is the debtor and New Century Financial Services is the creditor. Filed March of THIS year. And the alleged hush money has been reported at, what, $15,000 a MONTH?

http://webofdeception.com/#riellehunter


About the company also involved in the suit:

http://www.ncfsi.com/


New Century Financial Services (NCFS) is a full service financial firm headquartered in Whippany, New Jersey. We have been purchasing and trading all types of debt including delinquent and charged off credit card accounts, loans, auto deficiencies and telecom accounts since 1996. Our reliability, honesty and commitment to service have resulted in long term relationships with debt resellers and credit issuers. We are 100% self funded and can make immediate decisions. Currently we buy and sell in statute paper in a number of states. Although we specialize in these states, we also purchase national portfolios. No portfolio is too large or too small.

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