Peter Scher, John Edwards' Former Adviser, Says Then-Candidate Dismissed Warning About Affair

Let's see if I've got this straight, take 2.

The defense argues Edwards knew nothing about the secret payments, which his attorneys say were intended to hide Edwards' pregnant mistress from his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, and not to influence the election.

Edwards is claiming that the money used to support Hunter was from the campaign (and not Edwards' personal money) because he was trying to hide the affair from his wife, not from the public (because Edwards was "afraid of Elizabeth").  

It would seem then that the defense is going to try to make Elizabeth the fall guy, the scapegoat, the power hungry one who wanted Edwards to become president.   That that was why Edwards ran for president: To have an alternate source of money in order to support his mistress without his wife finding out.

Why is Edwards's daughter willing to be any part of this?
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Peter Scher, John Edwards' Former Adviser, Says Then-Candidate Dismissed Warning About Affair

Let's see if I have this straight.

Edwards is claiming that the money used to support Hunter was from the campaign (and not his personal money) because he was trying to hide the affair from his wife, not from the public.  

By this logic, Edwards only ran for president in order to hide the affair from his wife.   
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Government Surveillance Requests Up In 2011, Report Says

Obama voted against it before he voted for it.  

Activists had to work to get Obama and Hillary off the campaign trail and back to Washington for the vote before the actual vote on that bill.  He voted the way the left wanted and later turned around and did a flip-flop and voted for it.  Right after spewing his condemnation of it.  Right after he'd gotten enough of the left's votes in the primary season.

It's really impossible to believe anything that comes out of Obama's mouth, just as it's impossible to take anything that Romney says seriously.  They're politicians; they said whatever is expedient, what they perceive to be necessary to say at the moment.  The proof is in their actions.  

Obama campaigned on not supporting the Iraq war, but I have no doubt that had he been in the Senate for the Iraq war vote, he would have given Bush the AUMF.  Obama's presidency has been a big stall, kicking the can down the road on leaving both Afghanistan and Iraq.  He's bought into the Cheney "Long War", expanding hostilities into sovereign nations and indiscriminately killing civilians.  Let's not forget that Obama requested Joe 'Chicken Warhawk' Lieberman as his mentor when he entered the Senate.   

In February 2008, Obama expressed his admiration for Reagan, who “brought stability” to the country after those years of unrest.  Think about that.  The years that ensured equality and civil rights when people stood up to the insanity of our involvement in Vietnam.  

Obama would have to make a hard left turn to qualify as a moderate Republican of the 20th century.
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Government Surveillance Requests Up In 2011, Report Says

Harper's Index, 2011 -

Number of delayed-no­tice search warrants granted by federal judges last year under the Patriot Act: 


1150




Number that were related to drug offenses and terrorism, respective­ly:


844, 6

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