John Edwards and Rielle Hunter: the long, slow slide into obscurity begins

illustration from Co-Ed Magazine

By Pablo Fanque
All This Is That National Affairs Editor

This is our last posting on Ex-Senator John Edwards, in order to let him drift into the obscurity he so richly deserves. . .like the old televisions in the 50's and 60's. . .when you turned them off, the picture collapsed to a small dot in the center of the screen that slowly faded away. John Edwards has hinted that he intends to carve out some sort of public role for himself, but that's the same delusional thinking that led to his current predicament. It's time to air the stench out of All This Is That.

According to today's Daily News, "John Edwards didn't confess his adultery with his flaky videographer, Rielle Hunter, until after he officially announced his presidential run in December 2006."

The National Enquirer reports that "Edwards didn't confess until after an unwitting campaign staffer walked in on him with Hunter and word got back to his wife, who confronted him." They further report: "They broke up a bunch of times, especially when Elizabeth was rediagnosed [with cancer]," a friend of Hunter's, Texas publicist Pigeon O'Brien, told People. "But they got back together."

And a "bombshell" that will surprise no one who has followed the story: "sources close to Hunter say that Edwards and his mistress choreographed their public tango over a DNA test: he offered to take one last week, she declined to allow it. "They worked that out together in advance," a source described only as "an insider" told the Enquirer. "She's still protecting John because she loves him and thinks they may eventually have a future together."
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Cindy McCain's Breasts:::::::::A coked Up First Lady??::::::::Is Cindy McCain Jeri Kehn's replacement or more like Martha Mitchell Jr. ?

With the John Edwards brouhaha, I kind of missed the "show us your t**s" McCain "controversy." This is good. Check out McCain's speech on YouTube (below). He experiences at least two or three brain freeze moments (I bet there are no TelePrompTer™s at Sturgis), offers to have his wife strip for the crowd, and panders to the crowd on gas prices and the war.

“I was looking at the Sturgis schedule and noticed that you have a beauty pageant and so I encouraged Cindy to compete,” McCain said to hoots from the largely male crowd. “With a little luck, she could be the only woman ever to serve as both the first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.” Senator John McCain a/k/a "The 44th President" a/k/a "George W. Bush's Third Term Stand-in." Miss Buffalo Chip is a title given to the winner of the Sturgis beauty pageant that features topless (and often bottomless) contestants.

I'll admit I don't spend much time tracking John McCain. And I know very little about Cindy, other than she has more money than Yoko Ono...which is nothing to sneeze at. Is is true that she is coked up, or frequently flying on Oxy's, or some cocktail of hashhish, Xanax, and Maker's Mark? Two times over the last week people have said "You don't know about Cindy McCain? You? I can't believe it." No, I don't know. Write in and disabuse me of that notion. I am too busy trying to find images of Cindy where she took her husband's advice. I mean, we kind of need someone to take the place of Jeri Kehn Thompson in the G.O.P. babestakes, but Cindy does have a spooky, severe, Aryan side.

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Learn Barack's VP pick, straight from the horses's mouth

Barack Obama is about to choose a running mate, and he wants you to be the first to know. "You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be part of this important moment."

Sign up with The Senator/44th President and he'll send you an email announcing his running mate. You can also text VP to 62262 to receive the text message on your mobile phone.
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The Enquirer says that John Edwards is only hinting at the truth

Rielle and John in happier days

"SEX, MORE LIES & VIDEOTAPE

"The ENQUIRER has uncovered bombshell new details about the John Edwards sex scandal after the former presidential candidate finally admitted he'd cheated on his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth!Edwards' headline-making admission confirmed The ENQUIRER's blockbuster world exclusive reports detailing his affair, in articles Edwards brazenly called "completely untrue" and "tabloid trash" while running for president and afterward."

"John Edwards is still lying!" a close source told The ENQUIRER. "He lied to his wife Elizabeth, he's lying to Rielle
and he lied all the way through his TV interview!"

"And now The ENQUIRER has uncovered that Edwards' political operatives are still paying his mistress Rielle Hunter - and she was whisked away on a private jet two days before he confessed their extramarital affair on national TV! The ENQUIRER has also confirmed that Edwards secretly visited Rielle and their love child three separate times at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles this year - a fact that proves he is still lying to America and his wife."



"ENQUIRER reporters caught Edwards, 55, making a late-night visit to 44-year-old Rielle and their daughter at the hotel on July 21 - which prompted us to release the first-ever photograph of him with his love child last week. " Read the entire story here.
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George Bush at The Olympics/What Would Bill Do?

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Walk in today!

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Video and Lyrics: Running On Empty by Jackson Browne

Another one of my favorite pop-rock anthems - Running on Empty by Jackson Browne.





Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-on-one
I don't know where Im running now, I'm just running on

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But Im running behind

Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don't know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, that'll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

Honey you really tempt me
You know the way you look so kind
I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind
You know I dont even know what I'm hoping to find
Running into the sun but I'm running behind

A rap from Senator J. Billington Bulworth

In a scene from one of my favorite (but deeply flawed) movies, at a big fundraiser, Senator J. Billington Bulworth grabs the mike, goes out into the well-heeled audience and starts rapping:

One man one vote
Now izzat really real?
The name of our game is
Let's make a deal.

Now people got their problems
The haves and the have-nots.
But the ones that make me listen
Pay for 30-second spots!...

I ain't getting' it in South Central
I'm getting' it in Beverly Hills.
So I'm votin' in the Senate
The way they want me to and
I'm sending 'em my bills.

But we got babies in South Central
Dyin' as young as they do in Peru.
We got public schools that are nightmares
We got a Congress that ain't got a clue...

We got factories closin' down
Where the hell did all the good jobs go?
Well. I'll tell you where they went --
My contributors make more profits
Hiring kids in Mexico.

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John Edwards: Meet the Press

The mainstream media hung fire when it was a "National Enquirer story," but now that he's let the cat out of the bag, those very same journalists seem to be rather enjoying the drawing and quartering of John Edwards

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President Ronald Reagan's thoughts about President George W. Bush

Much thanks for this one to Dean Ericksen, who, along with Jeff Clinton, constantly feed me excellent political, UFO/Grey, bizarre news, and other nuggets for All This Is That.

The photo is obviously from a Reagan inauguration. This quote by President Reagan is from his fairly recently published diaries, edited by Doug Brinkley and published by Harper Collins.

"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his n'er-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida; the one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work." [From THE REAGAN DIARIES - entry dated May 17, 1986]

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"Crazy" Joe Liberman on the VP short list--for McCain

By Pablo Fanque,
All This Is That National Affairs Editor


"Don't move back Mr. President. I'm getting a chubby."

According to a story in the Financial Times by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Joe Lieberman, former Democratic vice-presidential nominee/Democrat turncoat, who endorsed John McCain for President, is being vetted as a running mate for the Republican presidential hopeful an unnamed McCain advisor said.


From an All This Is That staff artist, two years ago - August 9, 2006


"John, he's all yours. You can have the P.O.S."


The Senator at a Press Conference with Donald Rumsfeld

Although Democrats haven't exactly been buying McCain’s tarnished image as a maverick politician, Mr. Lieberman’s support for the presumptive Republican nominee has the unfortunate effect of making McCain seem more palatable, as a bi-partisan legislator with friends on both sides of the aisle. Lieberman, could also help Mr McCain win over Jewish voters with his steadfast support for Israel.

But you know what? No one likes a rat, and in the end, what is Joe Lieberman but a sawed-off Neo-Republican apologist for Israel who turned his back on his Democratic brothers and sisters in their hour of greatest need? Sure, you'll use a rat; you'll exploit him to get to the next stage, but in the end, a rat is a rat is a rat. People will trust him as far as they can throw him (what is the record for dwarf-tossing, anyway?).

The odds of John McCain surviving two terms in office are not specifically all that good. Eight of 43 Presidents have died in office, and he will be the oldest President ever. Even if he seems palatable as a running mate, not many people on either side of the aisle are ready for a Lieberman Presidency. The republicans know he has certain liberal tendencies they may find unpalatable. The Democrats know he is an unprincipled weasel who shouldn't be trusted with even an obscure subcommittee chairmanship. McCain will come to his senses once this trial balloon is laughed off the table. McCain will come to his senses and pick a nice, bland running mate who can carry one important state, and do no collateral damage.


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