IAP Political Forum

I still think Edwards would make a fantastic AG.

What do you guys think?

That would be a great team!!  Just imagine the thrashing they could lay on McCain/whoever

Edwards is a pillar of integritty and his two america's speach can be dusted off!!  Obama needs someone like Edwards to speak about Integrity and being kind to our neighbors!

Edwards screwed up royal...his career is shot

I still think Edwards would make a fantastic AG.

For the love of God, take that back, admit you were joking or say it was a typo... or I can never consider you credable again...

  So, are you saying that if it is an Obama/Edwards ticket, that you would vote for McCain because of Edwards infidelity?

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.

But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children....

[W]hen McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.

When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.

Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.

Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering....

McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later....

But it wasn't until 2000 that McCain, possibly emboldened by Clinton's survival of his scandals, became the first confessed adulterer to have the nerve to run. Now, just a few years after infidelity was considered a dealbreaker for a presidential candidate, the party that presents itself as the arbiter of virtue may field an unprecedented two-timing trifecta.

McCain was still married and living with his wife in 1979 while, according to The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof, "aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich." McCain divorced his wife, who had raised their three children while he was imprisoned in Vietnam, then launched his political career with his new wife's family money. In 2000, McCain managed to deflect media questioning about his first marriage with a deft admission of responsibility for its failure. It's possible that the age of the offense and McCain's charmed relationship with the press will pull him through again, but Giuliani and Gingrich may face a more difficult challenge. Both conducted well-documented affairs in the last decade--while still in public office.

So its OK to have an affair while married to an ailing wife as long as you divorce the wife and marry the mistress, as did J Sydney McCain?  
If McShame stayed married to his ailing wife after the adultery, he would be a cad as well?
 Does that make any sense to you Abraxas?

I thought there'd never be a worse AG than Edwin Meese. It took George W Bush to find someone worse.

How is it then that in the MSM Edwards is washed up but McSame gets a free pass??

The fact the story has no legs in the media tells me that semi-reputable news divisions aren't going to pin their names to it because of some shaky facts. I don't personally know the story so I can't speak to it but it seems to me that there are plenty of reports who'd love to take a shot, if given the chance.

The facts are out ther Neue ...they are not "shaky" but are well documented for anyone willing to investigate.

Fact is its just not the scandel D'Jour.

How you get taken down by the National Enquirer, of all sources, is beyond me :-\

I guess I'll take the Enquirer a little more seriously now...

The Hill
Mukasey will not prosecute in DoJ hiring scandal  
By Joey Michalakes 
Posted: 08/12/08 12:17 PM [ET] 
Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday that the Department of Justice would not pursue criminal charges against former employees implicated in an internal investigation on politicized hiring practices.

“Where there is evidence of criminal wrongdoing, we vigorously investigate it,” Mukasey said in a speech at the American Bar Association. “And where there is enough evidence to charge someone with a crime, we vigorously prosecute. But not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.”
 

I guess it would depend on if the one doing it has a history of spamming partisan propoganda....