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post #51 of 168
8/8/08 at 7:36pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Nixon didn't get any ass.
Ergo Nixon wasn't evil!

.. he was just tape recorded that way.
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post #52 of 168
8/8/08 at 7:43pm
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Originally Posted by BTSMGL View Post


Aren't you supposed to aim higher when you cheat on your spouse?
Maybe someone who would put up with his personal brand of kink was more important.
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post #53 of 168
8/8/08 at 7:53pm
What an ass. Cheating on your wife is one thing and that's bad enough but cheating on your dying wife? MSNBC should "mistakenly" put an "R" by his name like the good folks at FOX do with Republicans when they get in the shit. I really hope McCain isn't stupid enough to use this against Obama. I really hope he isn't that dumb.
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post #54 of 168
8/8/08 at 7:55pm
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Originally Posted by BTSMGL View Post


Aren't you supposed to aim higher when you cheat on your spouse?
To an egomaniac like him, any woman who was cancer-free was an upgrade

I wish you guys could be here in North Cackylacky to hear this guy getting his ass handed to him on the local channels. A woman on the news just said that she hopes he burns in hell for what he's done to Elizabeth.
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post #55 of 168
8/8/08 at 7:55pm
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"In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it. But being 99% honest is no longer enough.

I was and am ashamed of my conduct and choices, and I had hoped that it would never become public. With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006 and today I take full responsibility publicly. But that misconduct took place for a short period in 2006. It ended then. I am and have been willing to take any test necessary to establish the fact that I am not the father of any baby, and I am truly hopeful that a test will be done so this fact can be definitively established. I only know that the apparent father has said publicly that he is the father of the baby. I also have not been engaged in any activity of any description that requested, agreed to or supported payments of any kind to the woman or to the apparent father of the baby."
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post #56 of 168
8/8/08 at 8:05pm
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Originally Posted by HarleyQuinn22 View Post
I wish you guys could be here in North Cackylacky to hear this guy getting his ass handed to him on the local channels. A woman on the news just said that she hopes he burns in hell for what he's done to Elizabeth.
Now there's a true Christian!

**so many levels of irony ... head ... exploding ...
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post #57 of 168
8/8/08 at 8:09pm
That woman looks like the offspring of that priest from Father Ted. Observe.

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post #58 of 168
8/8/08 at 8:35pm
This is her in some better photos:



She'll write a book about her life and sucking his penis and get millions. Maybe have a reality show too.

But in the end... fuck John Edwards.
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post #59 of 168
8/8/08 at 8:37pm
This is a fucking bummer. I was with him all the way until he dropped out. Thank God he didn't get the nom, or we'd already be talking President McCain.

Man, Obama better not so much as accidentally spit on another woman for the next six months.
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post #60 of 168
8/8/08 at 8:37pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Nixon didn't get any ass.
Sure he did. He was fucking the Constitution on the regular.
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post #61 of 168
8/8/08 at 8:39pm
I didn't know the constitution had a pair of tits and a butt that won't quit.

Shit if that's the case, the Bush Administration has been reaming that bitch harder than John Holmes.
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post #62 of 168
8/8/08 at 8:45pm
It didn't have to. Nixon was a Quaker. Those guys would go hysterical over anything resembling flesh, including parchment.
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post #63 of 168
8/8/08 at 8:49pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Shit if that's the case, the Bush Administration has been reaming that bitch harder than John Holmes.
In that comparison, Nixon is like Holmes' film career and Bush is like the Wonderland killings.
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post #64 of 168
8/8/08 at 8:50pm
No, I'm just talking about fucking. You're talking murder during a drug deal gone bad.
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post #65 of 168
8/8/08 at 9:12pm
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Originally Posted by BTSMGL View Post


Aren't you supposed to aim higher when you cheat on your spouse?
She looks like Maria Bello after she'd been rolled downhill in a barrel. Fail, Edwards.
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post #66 of 168
8/8/08 at 9:24pm
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Originally Posted by BTSMGL View Post


Aren't you supposed to aim higher when you cheat on your spouse?
Does she have on makeup for Halloween? At his level of power you would think the man would have the good taste to bonk a hot 20 year old
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post #67 of 168
8/8/08 at 9:28pm
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain View Post
In that comparison, Nixon is like Holmes' film career and Bush is like the Wonderland killings.
This quote just made my day. Shame about John Edwards bopping mid-level soccer mom skank.
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post #68 of 168
8/8/08 at 9:54pm
Fuck John Edwards. Fucking Southern-ass Eliot Spitzer. What the fuck sort of idiot is going to pull this bullshit while he is running for President and his wife is ailing with cancer. What if he was the nominee? Where would we be then? Shit fucking creek, that's where. This guy deserves whatever he gets. Throw him to the dogs. Fuck that. Throw him to the goddamn pigs.
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post #69 of 168
8/8/08 at 9:59pm
Well, technically, it happened and ended in 2006 and he claims his wife knew about it since that year, too.
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post #70 of 168
8/8/08 at 10:00pm
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Originally Posted by dynamotv View Post
What an ass. Cheating on your wife is one thing and that's bad enough but cheating on your dying wife? MSNBC should "mistakenly" put an "R" by his name like the good folks at FOX do with Republicans when they get in the shit. I really hope McCain isn't stupid enough to use this against Obama. I really hope he isn't that dumb.
Tire gauges.

You gotta think about the intelligence level of someone who can't make a decision between John McCain and Barack Obama in under one minute at this point one way or the other. They're fighting over the dumbest of the dumb.

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Well, technically, it happened and ended in 2006 and he claims his wife knew about it since that year, too.
Then he shouldn't have ever even gotten in the race this time out. That skeleton in the closet still has meat rotting on the bones.
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post #71 of 168
8/8/08 at 10:26pm
I guess because this news is 'new', we get to excoriate Edwards while McCain gets a free pass for doing largely the same thing. The biggest difference is that McCain's transgression was 30 years ago (old news!) - the fact that Elizabeth Edwards has cancer seems corollary to me. This would be a campaign killer regardless. And John McCain was cheating on his then wife after she had been hospitalized with extensive injuries after a car accident.

So please let us bury a stake in John Edwards' smilin' sunshine and peaches political career. But if you consider his mistake reason enough to end a career (and running his campaign while this was still simmering is reason enough) and yet still support John McCain - that is fucking hypocrisy.

So that I am not misunderstood: John McCain is a dickhead for doing the same thing John Edwards did.
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post #72 of 168
8/8/08 at 10:35pm
His wife made a statement:

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Our family has been through a lot. Some caused by nature, some caused by human weakness, and some – most recently – caused by the desire for sensationalism and profit without any regard for the human consequences. None of these has been easy. But we have stood with one another through them all. Although John believes he should stand alone and take the consequences of his action now, when the door closes behind him, he has his family waiting for him.

John made a terrible mistake in 2006. The fact that it is a mistake that many others have made before him did not make it any easier for me to hear when he told me what he had done. But he did tell me. And we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made somewhat easier with my diagnosis in March of 2007. This was our private matter, and I frankly wanted it to be private because as painful as it was I did not want to have to play it out on a public stage as well. Because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter could no longer be wholly private.


The pain of the long journey since 2006 was about to be renewed.

John has spoken in a long on-camera interview I hope you watch. Admitting one’s mistakes is a hard thing for anyone to do, and I am proud of the courage John showed by his honesty in the face of shame. The toll on our family of news helicopters over our house and reporters in our driveway is yet unknown. But now the truth is out, and the repair work that began in 2006 will continue. I ask that the public, who expressed concern about the harm John’s conduct has done to us, think also about the real harm that the present voyeurism does and give me and my family the privacy we need at this time.
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post #73 of 168
8/9/08 at 1:46am
Thread Starter 
I just love the term "mistake". No, sorry, not a mistake. A mistake is "I forgot to pick up milk" or "I said I would pick up our son from practice on poker night." Those are mistakes. Hell, if I used sleeping with another woman as a mistake I would wake up with my nuts in a jar by my bed.
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post #74 of 168
8/9/08 at 1:59am
What I found most interesting about Edwards' statement on the matter is that he effectively placed some of the blame for the affair on his inflated sense of narcissism...which is a bold truth to speak to. It's the reason a lot of these public figures end up doing this kind of shit--pure egomania and self-centeredness. Traits that most politicians naturally have in abundance.
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post #75 of 168
8/9/08 at 2:50am
I’m fascinated by the way that Edward’s media image has played into this, especially as compared to John McCain.

As several posters above have mentioned, McCain also had an affair and dumped his wife while she was recovering from a horrible car accident.

But in McCain’s case, not only was the incident “old news”, he had spent the last 12+ years carefully creating an image of himself as a War Hero Who Is Above the Fray. He did this via 5 best selling books, written with his chief speech writer, who has the gift of making his boss sound profound. John McCain “unplugged” comes across as an idiot: John McCain reading a speech can sound positively Presidential. John Edwards really has not had time to craft an image of himself. Yes he’s been crusading for the downtrodden; but it’s only been in the last couple of years, via speeches.

And yes, any “man” who would screw around on his wife while she’s fighting cancer is a scum bag.
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post #76 of 168
8/9/08 at 3:20am
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Originally Posted by BTSMGL View Post
Well, technically, it happened and ended in 2006 and he claims his wife knew about it since that year, too.
He was caught visiting her at odd hours in a hotel room, this year. Either the affair was still active or he just wanted to see the baby ... which he says is not his.

Also, what the hell, a campaign staffer claims to be the father of the baby?
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post #77 of 168
8/9/08 at 3:42am
I like how he made it a point to note that "He don't love them hoes"

Now he's going to smoke an ounce to this. Dems up, Republicans down while you motherfuckers bounce to this.
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post #78 of 168
8/9/08 at 4:36am
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica View Post

Also, what the hell, a campaign staffer claims to be the father of the baby?
No, he claims EDWARDS be da fatha!

Call in Maury! He gets DNA results in 48 hrs!
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post #79 of 168
8/9/08 at 4:44am
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica View Post
Also, what the hell, a campaign staffer claims to be the father of the baby?
Jesus, did the entire Edwards campaign staff run a train on that woman? I know it's lonely on the trail, but GODDAMN...
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post #80 of 168
8/9/08 at 5:10am
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Originally Posted by Master Shake View Post
Jesus, did the entire Edwards campaign staff run a train on that woman?
I'd like to think so.
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post #81 of 168
8/9/08 at 7:34am
My mother-in-law is from NC, and when Edwards ran in 2004, she said, "I'd vote for anyone over him. I can't stand that man. He's an ambulance chasing scumbag." Or words to that effect. When this news came out, she said to me last night, "Did you read that bit about Edwards? Ugh. Scumbag. I never did like him."
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post #82 of 168
8/9/08 at 11:25am
The faux-outrage here is kinda remarkable, especially considering the statistics on infidelity.
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post #83 of 168
8/9/08 at 2:34pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer View Post
The faux-outrage here is kinda remarkable, especially considering the statistics on infidelity.
I've been sitting on my hands since yesterday wanting to make the same observation, yeah.
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post #84 of 168
8/9/08 at 2:52pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer View Post
The faux-outrage here is kinda remarkable, especially considering the statistics on infidelity.
Might be the fact that she has cancer.
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post #85 of 168
8/9/08 at 3:11pm
Speaking for myself the infidelity statistics don't matter to me in this case (although they're sadly high), what's important to me is he made his marriage to Elizabeth such a big part of his campaign and to discover that he's been boinking around behind her back makes me regret voting for him.
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post #86 of 168
8/9/08 at 3:57pm
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Originally Posted by Jakespeare
Speaking for myself the infidelity statistics don't matter to me in this case (although they're sadly high), what's important to me is he made his marriage to Elizabeth such a big part of his campaign and to discover that he's been boinking around behind her back makes me regret voting for him.
Exactly. Had he gotten the nomination, this could have just handed the whole damn election to McCain on a silver platter, gift wrapped.

"But McCain did the same thing or worse to one of his wives, blah blah tortured by the VC blah blah bullshit."

Doesn't matter, we know the double standard here. A Democrat lying about a blowjob is worse than a Republican going to war on false pretenses as he wipes his ass with the Constitution in one hand and the Geneva Convention in the other. McCain can kill hookers for sport and it doesn't really matter because it's OK if you're a Republican. If this seems unfair, blame the liberal media. It works for the Republicans.

That's why I'm so amazingly disgusted and furious at Edwards. He had to know what would happen if this came out. What it would mean to his party, and by extension the prospect of getting responsible adults back in charge of the Executive Branch. He saw the swiftboating of John Kerry. And yet he ran for President anyway, knowing all of this. Judgement of that caliber is little better than what we have now.
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post #87 of 168
8/9/08 at 4:27pm
Agree. John Edwards is an idiot for running in the wake of his affair, but there's so much else going on, so much perfidy by Republicans, that all this outrage is kind of ridiculous.

The lady at my office who always flags me down to tell me the latest right wing radio talking point was all in an uproar over this affair. I don't even bother bringing up the forged letter the White House ordered to make the case for war, but really- cheating on your wife vs. forging a letter to lie to the American people so you can plunder a sovereign nation, plunge the country into near economic ruin, and murder thousands if not millions of people? Where's the outrage over that?

Here's a list of stories which should be getting the kind of 24/7 news coverage Edwards's affair is getting:

From Larisa Alexandrovna at HuffPo:

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Both the left and the right, as well as the mainstream media have been talking about this private matter non-stop as though it were newsworthy. Edwards is not a public official, nor is he now running for public office now. Even if he were, it is a matter for him and his wife to resolve. So why is this news? Because when he was running for public office he did not want to share his private (legal) life with you? Do you have the right to even ask? Unless there is some illegal activity going on, what right do you have to know what a public figure does privately in their bedroom if it is not used as a political "family values" tool against citizens of this nation? Did Edwards try to pass the no cheating constitutional amendment and I simply missed it? I do recall the same-sex marriage ban amendment being shoved down our throats by people who were gay or criminal deviants. But I do not recall Edwards ever demanding to know how any of us lived and loved privately, nor did he insist on enforcing his view on how we should live and love.

Most importantly, why is actual criminal activity committed by officials currently in office NOT news 24/7 or the only thing wall to wall from blog to blog?

Here is what should be on the TV, radio, and in all newspapers and blogs 24/7:

1. Russia's attack on Georgia (which suggests that the US is no longer the lone super-power)

2. Revelations that the White House had ordered evidence to be fabricated in order to start an illegal war (which we are in now)

3. Evidence that the Anthrax terrorist attacks came from a US government lab (despite what we all believe about Dr. Ivin's alleged relationship to the attacks)

4. The fact that the Bush administration was more interested in blaming the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda and Iraq than in securing this nation (a pattern of criminal neglect that frankly warrants criminal charges)

5. The fact that Karl Rove was briefed that an Anthrax vaccine was making our soldiers sick and that he sought to control the damages of the "political problem" this information could pose, not remotely interested in addressing the health of our troops - the troops he claims to support.

6. The evidence that the Vice President wanted to kill Americans in order to frame Iran and start a war

7. The fact that American naval ships are starting to build up again in the Gulf region as a threat to Iran
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post #88 of 168
8/9/08 at 4:41pm
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Originally Posted by yt View Post
Agree. John Edwards is an idiot for running in the wake of his affair, but there's so much else going on, so much perfidy by Republicans, that all this outrage is kind of ridiculous.

The lady at my office who always flags me down to tell me the latest right wing radio talking point was all in an uproar over this affair. I don't even bother bringing up the forged letter the White House ordered to make the case for war, but really- cheating on your wife vs. forging a letter to lie to the American people so you can plunder a sovereign nation, plunge the country into near economic ruin, and murder thousands if not millions of people? Where's the outrage over that?
There's none of that evil fucking, so America doesn't even get to hear about it to not care about.
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post #89 of 168
8/9/08 at 4:41pm
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Originally Posted by yt View Post
Agree. John Edwards is an idiot for running in the wake of his affair, but there's so much else going on, so much perfidy by Republicans, that all this outrage is kind of ridiculous.

The lady at my office who always flags me down to tell me the latest right wing radio talking point was all in an uproar over this affair. I don't even bother bringing up the forged letter the White House ordered to make the case for war, but really- cheating on your wife vs. forging a letter to lie to the American people so you can plunder a sovereign nation, plunge the country into near economic ruin, and murder thousands if not millions of people? Where's the outrage over that?
Not even in the same ballpark YT. You're talking about an accusation from someone trying to sell books. The other is a has-been politician that had the national stage a few months ago admitting to an affair.

Now, if Bush came out and admitted he had a letter forged then it would be something Earth shattering but instead just another guy trying to cash in on an unpopular President.

I do agree, this shouldn't be a news story. Edwards was a has-been and after a second failed Presidental bid a never will be. I fail to see why the Enquirer was following him.
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post #90 of 168
8/9/08 at 5:36pm
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Originally Posted by Snaieke View Post
Not even in the same ballpark YT. You're talking about an accusation from someone trying to sell books.

Yeah yt. There's no possible way it could be TRUE or anything.

Unless maybe it was reported in the Enquirer.
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post #91 of 168
8/9/08 at 5:43pm
Snaieke, do you think there should be a congressional inquiry or anything? Do you think the revelation is important at all, in light of the fact that he has published the transcript of his recorded interview with Ron Richer, Tenet's former deputy?
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post #92 of 168
8/9/08 at 7:10pm
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Originally Posted by Snaieke View Post
I fail to see why the Enquirer was following him.
Oddly enough, they weren't. Edwards was foolish enough to meet with his former mistress at the Beverly Hilton during the Television Critics Awards. The Enquirer didn't have to go very far.
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post #93 of 168
8/9/08 at 7:42pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer View Post
The faux-outrage here is kinda remarkable, especially considering the statistics on infidelity.

Yes, you can't argue with hard numbers like "roughly 30 to 60%". That's the stuff of hard science right there.

Actually, this kind of shit is starting to irritate me, too. I'm seeing a lot of this pseudo-justification from people screaming "Well, look at the numbers! You can't be mad because lots of people do it all the time!" Fuck the numbers, it's still repugnant*.

*Rielle Hunter, that is.
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post #94 of 168
8/9/08 at 7:44pm
Half the people here are mad because they have a hard enough time finding ONE person to fuck them.
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post #95 of 168
8/9/08 at 7:48pm
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Originally Posted by devincf View Post
Half the people here are mad because they have a hard enough time finding ONE person to fuck them.
Bad day huckleberry?
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post #96 of 168
8/9/08 at 7:51pm
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Originally Posted by devincf View Post
Half the people here are mad because they have a hard enough time finding ONE person to fuck them.
I love when you post things like this. Your fat, greasy, schlubby ass pretending to be some sort of ass magnet is easily the funniest thing the internet has to offer.
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post #97 of 168
8/9/08 at 7:52pm
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Originally Posted by Drew S. View Post
I love when you post things like this. Your fat, greasy, schlubby ass pretending to be some sort of ass magnet is easily the funniest thing the internet has to offer.
And so Devin's Exhibit A. presented itself.
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post #98 of 168
8/9/08 at 8:13pm
Newsflash: I don't care if some moron from the bayou thinks I get laid.
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post #99 of 168
8/9/08 at 8:17pm
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Originally Posted by devincf View Post
Newsflash: I don't care if some moron from the bayou thinks I get laid.

Man, how can you stand being such an edgy badass?

So,are hits down, and is that why you're trolling the boards again, or just bored?
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post #100 of 168
8/9/08 at 8:33pm
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Originally Posted by devincf View Post
Half the people here are mad because they have a hard enough time finding ONE person to fuck them.
Have you even read this thread? I think for the most part, most of us have gotten desensitized over infidelity in the news and that goes double for politicians. What raises the ick factor for many of us is that he's fucking around while his wife is battling cancer.

But just to be clear. You're cool with a guy who fucks around while his wife is dying of cancer? Am I right?
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