So John Edwards threw it all away for a 42 year-old videographer.
Which makes you wonder if his ``rendezvous with destiny�� will soon be showing up at an Internet site near you?
Gone are his chances of being Barack Obama�s right-hand man; gone too is the likelihood of being named to a cabinet post in a Democratic administration.
And his poor judgment even stripped him of the chance to deliver a speech on poverty at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Now that the former U.S. Senator, former running mate of John Kerry, and 2008 presidential hopeful has been reduced to being thought of as a lying, cheating two-faced disreputable rake, who expresses half truths--what new career could this well-coiffed philander possibly find with that kind of reputation?
Journalism, perhaps?
Maybe 60 Minutes can resurrect the Point/CounterPoint feature made famous by James J. Kilpatrick (conservative) and Shana Alexander (liberal) and lampooned by SNL's Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtain during the 1970�s with Edwards and his conservative scourge, Ann Coulter.
Example:
Coulter: John you�re such a faggot�
Edwards: Ann, you ignorant slut....
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So now that the son of a mill worker, husband to his cancer-stricken wife Elizaeth, and father of four, finally came clean about his extra-marital affair with Rielle Hunter, despite repeated denials, you might wonder how common infidelity is within U.S. marriages.
Well, that that depends on who you ask.
According to the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, between 3- 4 percent of married people have an additional sexual partner during a given year; and 15 to 18 percent during the course of their marriage.
According to NORC�s report, the likelihood of someone cheating on their spouse stands at 13 percent between the ages of 18 to 29, then jumps to 20 percent between the ages of 50-59. John Edwards is 55.
The Journal of Family Psychology (2007, Vol. 21, No. 2), meanwhile, in a national survey of sexual infidelity reports that between 20�40 percent of men, and 20�25 percent of women will be involved in an extramarital affair in their lifetimes; while approximately 2�4 percent of married men and women are likely to have engaged in extramarital sex in the past year.
-Bill Lucey
[email protected]
Which makes you wonder if his ``rendezvous with destiny�� will soon be showing up at an Internet site near you?
Gone are his chances of being Barack Obama�s right-hand man; gone too is the likelihood of being named to a cabinet post in a Democratic administration.
And his poor judgment even stripped him of the chance to deliver a speech on poverty at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Now that the former U.S. Senator, former running mate of John Kerry, and 2008 presidential hopeful has been reduced to being thought of as a lying, cheating two-faced disreputable rake, who expresses half truths--what new career could this well-coiffed philander possibly find with that kind of reputation?
Journalism, perhaps?
Maybe 60 Minutes can resurrect the Point/CounterPoint feature made famous by James J. Kilpatrick (conservative) and Shana Alexander (liberal) and lampooned by SNL's Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtain during the 1970�s with Edwards and his conservative scourge, Ann Coulter.
Example:
Coulter: John you�re such a faggot�
Edwards: Ann, you ignorant slut....
***
So now that the son of a mill worker, husband to his cancer-stricken wife Elizaeth, and father of four, finally came clean about his extra-marital affair with Rielle Hunter, despite repeated denials, you might wonder how common infidelity is within U.S. marriages.
Well, that that depends on who you ask.
According to the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, between 3- 4 percent of married people have an additional sexual partner during a given year; and 15 to 18 percent during the course of their marriage.
According to NORC�s report, the likelihood of someone cheating on their spouse stands at 13 percent between the ages of 18 to 29, then jumps to 20 percent between the ages of 50-59. John Edwards is 55.
The Journal of Family Psychology (2007, Vol. 21, No. 2), meanwhile, in a national survey of sexual infidelity reports that between 20�40 percent of men, and 20�25 percent of women will be involved in an extramarital affair in their lifetimes; while approximately 2�4 percent of married men and women are likely to have engaged in extramarital sex in the past year.
-Bill Lucey
[email protected]
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