Edwards admits to affair,

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Plenty of people cheat on their ill spouses. I'm not sure if a survey has been done on this, but caring for an ill, dying, or otherwise incapacitated spouse is extremely taxing, and chances are, the healthy spouse isn't getting any. It sounds heartless, but plenty of caregivers have had their sanity restored to a degree by having an affair--often with someone whose spouse is also ill. Would divorcing the ill spouse be a better alternative? Obviously it depends on the situation. I guess it's not surprising that you don't' hear too much about that type of thing.

Edwards' hypocrisy is undeniable, that's for sure.

I don't know. On one hand, I can understand the physical need, but its more usual that relationships suffer more from lack of emotional intimacy rather than physical intimacy. I just imagine him using that as a reason to get laid. Whatever happened to masturbation?

[Wei&Shu(Joe) 2]

The only reason I give a ####### about this news is because it vindicates the National Enquirer.

So all you haters who were hating on the Enquirer need to apologize!

Yes that 2% of the time they are right surely vindicates them! At least we know they aren't making everything up since pure guessing would be right much more frequently than the Enquirer. But they are kept in business by people who think that occasionally guessing right makes them accurate so I guess I'm just not in tune with the American system of "vindication" yet.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I can't think of a way to make my hands feel like pu$$y. If you've figured out how, let me know.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I can't think of a way to make my hands feel like pu$y. If you've figured out how, let me know.

LOL....

click here.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

I can't think of a way to make my hands feel like pu$$y. If you've figured out how, let me know.

From what I understand, cutting a hole in some type of melon that's been left in the sun is a frugal option. But make sure you get there before the ants.

[Kevin and 10]

I can't think of a way to make my hands feel like pu$$y. If you've figured out how, let me know.

From what I understand, cutting a hole in some type of melon that's been left in the sun is a frugal option. But make sure you get there before the ants.

Bees might be a problem too.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

I can't think of a way to make my hands feel like pu$$y. If you've figured out how, let me know.

From what I understand, cutting a hole in some type of melon that's been left in the sun is a frugal option. But make sure you get there before the ants.

Bees might be a problem too.

Good point. Maybe some low-cost mosquito netting?

[Jenn! 918]

This was an affair, not just sex, totally different IMO. Sex with a prostitute *might* be understandable when you have an ill spouse (even better if both spouses agree).

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

How is John McCain's Affair Different than John Edwards'?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

This was an affair, not just sex, totally different IMO. Sex with a prostitute *might* be understandable when you have an ill spouse (even better if both spouses agree).

I agree. An affair is as much an emotional infidelity as it is physical.

[IAMX 3,055]

In normal life people have affairs and yet can still be great businessmen, doctors, or whatever, but politicians are supposed to be immune? Get real people. If it wasn't such a huge deal, they would never lie about it and the whole thing could be something that is part of their private lives and remain private.

One wrinkle to bear in mind: this isn't just any spouse-cheats-on-spouse story.

Elizabeth has cancer.

He used her as a prop in his run for President.

That takes him to a special level of slimeball, in my mind.

He may be a slimeball in terms of how he treats women/his wife but does that make him useless in other walks of life? Do we have to know about these things? Are only the sexually squeaky clean able to make political decisions?

I especially find the morally or sexually haughty (particularly people who preach about others sex life) have the most skeletons in their closet to cover for.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Is it cheating if it's just emotional and not physical?

If yes, then what if the object of the emotional attachment is an inaniminate or virtual object/personality?

[Empress of Groovy 373]

This was an affair, not just sex, totally different IMO. Sex with a prostitute *might* be understandable when you have an ill spouse (even better if both spouses agree).

Yes, that's true. I'm just thinking of how much emphasis is going to be placed on Edwards cheating on his ill wife, and it certainly makes you wince. The image is of her lying in bed, sick from chemo, while he's out enjoying himself with some chick. But I suspect a lot of the judgment will come from people who have little understanding of what life is like for someone whose spouse is seriously ill. Especially w/ cancer, people's personalities change, and often they're not the same person they were before becoming ill. If you remove the illness from the equation, these days that's a perfectly acceptable reason to divorce (personalty change, that is). But someone leaving his or her ill spouse just seems awful, even if life becomes unbearable.

This isn't defending Edwards, by the way...

[HAL 9000 96]

By the way, before anyone forgets - of the two presumptive nominees for President from the two major parties, only one is well known to have cheated on his wife. He cheated on his wife while she was essentially a cripple, recovering from an auto accident.

Hint: That candidate is not Obama.

Doh!

Oh... wait wait... another lying Republican... pwned!

Well, not exactly.

McCain's never (to my knowledge) denied it. Basically, he was in a PoW camp and when he arrived back home his wife was a cripple and he was a 30-something man who was busy "catching up" on his 20s.

He's never denied it.

Which is why attacking him on it wouldn't work, IMO.

But reminding people of what is now ancient history, because it is an interesting sidenote to the JRE scandal? Perfectly reasonable.

Hence my lol there AJ- I was referring to the speed at which many people are quick to lump moral and ethical behaviors onto the broad landscape of politics yet can't seem to look at the politicians they themselves condone as in many cases even more hypocritical [wide] stances than those they criticize.

I can't speak for the specifics of any marital situation not my own.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Is it cheating if it's just emotional and not physical?

If yes, then what if the object of the emotional attachment is an inaniminate or virtual object/personality?

Hell yes!