John Edwards

Each month when I get the official unemployment figures from the US government, I quickly search in my inbox for a note from former cable network CEO and senior economic adviser in the John Edwards and Barack Obama campaigns Leo Hindery who sends me the "effective unemployment" figures t...

By Greg Mitchell Questions quickly rose about his ballot status in South Carolina but the situation there appeared murky. Stewart signed a contract extension for his Daily Show, explaining, "I love doing this show... I look forward to using this extension to having great fun at President Colbert's expense....

By Staff For Democrats, the immediate peril of failing to hang on to some of these swing voters could play out Tuesday in the governor’s race in Virginia, a state Mr. Obama wrested away from Republicans last year, but where the Democratic candidate for governor has struggled to reprise Mr. Obama’s e...

John and Elizabeth Edwards during the 2008 presidential campaign.(CNN) -- Despite John Edwards' extramarital affair that rocked his marriage, his wife described their union as a "love story," albeit an unconventional one. Elizabeth Edwards told WJLA-TV in Washington late last week s...

By Steve Chapman But liberals are not the only people who fantasize that our health care resources are unlimited. Republicans have accused the Obama administration of plotting to set up "death panels" to ration care for seniors. Former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey of New York called the House Democratic health...

By Ron Chusid Besides dropping in popularity, the two have little in common. Sure both are former vice presidential candidates and both are partially known for their hair, but otherwise their careers at this point have little in common. John Edwards’ popularity has dropped because he was caught cheat...

As compared to, say, John Edwards, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2004 who attempted another run at the presidency four years later only to disclose that he had had a sexual affair with a campaign-paid videographer while his longtime wife, Elizabeth, was battling cancer.

By Staff Big Labor should forget about EFCA and real universal health care and reform – that died in Denver in 2008. Barack Obama is Jack Squat. Now Obama has turned publicly poisonous and elements of the Democratic coalition are turning to reality… then to Hillary.

By LatoyaPeterson The feelings of betrayal are particularly strong here in Chapel Hill, the famously liberal college town where the family moved after Edwards left the Senate in 2005. In some quarters, John and Elizabeth are both being blamed for pressing ahead with his presidential run despite their sha...

By BarbinMD Daniel Henninger tosses out a few insults, implies that people really don't want health care reform, and fears that President Obama will make partisanship worse. Funny. Suzanne Fields is astonished that President Obama is abandoning a plan that George W. Bush worked so hard on.

By Scout Finch President Obama says his family will get the H1N1 vaccination, but they'll wait their turn like everyone else. President Obama has asked NY Governor David Paterson to drop his campaign. Further discussion can be found in betson08's diary here.

By hortense Believe this as much as you believe what your best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard about Ferris, but apparently John Edwards once told Rielle Hunter he would marry her in a rooftop ceremony...accompanied by the Dave Matthews Band. [MSNBC]

By John R. Bohrer Scores of Republican activists would've accused President Hillary Clinton of setting up "death panels." Rallies would've been filled with Hitler mustaches painted on the portrait of President John Edwards. A grandstanding GOP congressman would've shouted "You lie!" at President Bi...

By Lee Stranahan Almost exactly a year ago, I laid out where the Edwards story was headed including the fact that Rielle Hunter's baby's father is John Edwards. In past couple of weeks, The National Enquirer started reporting that DNA tests had taken place, Edwards is the father and Hunter is looking for a h...

By Anna N. The National Enquirer reports that John Edwards is moving Rielle Hunter and baby Frances near his North Carolina mansion so he can help raise the child. Elizabeth Edwards supposedly "exploded in a rage" when she found out. [National Enquirer]

By Lee Stranahan John and Elizabeth Edwards had the high honor of gracing the front cover of the National Enquirer with reality show stars Jon and Kate Gosselin... John and Elizabeth Edwards had the high honor of gracing the front cover of the National Enquirer with reality show stars Jon and Kate Gosselin re...

By Ron Chusid But independents continue to be much closer to Democrats than to Republicans with respect to social values, religiosity and beliefs about national security. Indices measuring the relative position of Republicans, Democrats and independents in these three areas show that the views o...

By Carol Felsenthal Would Hillary, who split the vote with Edwards in the Iowa caucuses on Janaury 3, 2008 -- the first contest of the long race -- have won Iowa had Edwards dropped out? Edwards barely grabbed second place there. (Obama had 37.6 percent of the delegates; Edwards, 29.9; and Hillary, 29.5.)

By P.J. Gladnick The chances of John Edwards doing the "right thing" for anybody else is somewhere between nil and none. As for Rielle losing her "leverage" because Edwards is not the father of her daughter, that possibility is even more remote than Edwards doing the right thing.

By P.J. Gladnick Flying below the radar, the former vice-presidential candidate is pulling off a feat that Democratic consultants have long considered impossible: staking out the most progressive platform among the viable candidates while preserving an aura of electability...

By Taniel 4. Obama’s “bitter” Americans 6. The Clintons’ race gaffes: Bill compares Obama to Jesse Jackson; Hillary describes Obama’s weak support among “hard-working Americans, white Americans” 9. Elizabeth Dole airs the Godless Americans ads — 5. John Edwards’s mistress

By Pareene A feisty young blogger named Matt points out that John Edwards has not yet been given a job in the Obama administration. Shocking! As Matt points out, in his link, Edwards totally endorsed Obama last May, four months after he dropped out of the race and a mere week after Tim Russert famously d...

By Clay Waters I also think that it raises questions about John McCain's qualities as a chief executive, his decision-making. The vice-presidential pick is a very important decision for any candidate. It's the first real decision that the candidate makes, and it gives insight into how that candidate w...

By Lee Stranahan As we head into the the Democratic convention, the Edwards scandal isn't over. It's really just beginning. Don't blame the media, blame John Edwards. Cynicism is exactly what Republicans want when their opponent's message is 'hope'.

By firstfriday John Edwards and his “little problem.” Admits affair, denies paternity, no one believes him.  Tries to deny he slept with her while her cancer was in remission, like that somehow makes it better.  John Edwards takes the lead in the “Throwing a staff member under the bus” contest for Democrat...

By firstfriday John Edwards and his "little problem." Admits affair, denies paternity, no one believes him.  Tries to deny he slept with her while her cancer was in remission, like that somehow makes it better.  John Edwards takes the lead in the "Throwing a staff member under the bus" contest for Democrat...

By Emily Pease During one of the many discussions I heard on TV, Andrea Mitchell expressed her dismay about the affair. First, it was Elizabeth she was thinking of. But then it was all the campaign staffers, many of them young, who believed in Edwards the candidate. Then it was the Democratic Party. And final...

By Noel Sheppard KURTZ: Wait a minute. I'm not buying that. So what? Exactly, especially since the Enquirer broke this story last October WELL before the Iowa caucuses. As such, claiming that you ignored this story because Edwards wasn't a top contender is either the height of ignorance, or the height of gal...

By shoreacres Edwards' own words tell the tale.  In a March 27 interview with Katie Couric, he said, "I think every single candidate for president, Republican and Democratic have lives, personal lives, that indicate something about what kind of human being they are. And I think it is a fair evaluation fo...

By Cenk Uygur So, I want every pundit who condemns John Edwards today to tell me what the difference between him and McCain is and why John McCain shouldn't also be run out of politics for his adulterous affairs and what he did to his first wife. More on John Edwards

By Tim Weaver I supported John Edwards during his candidacy for the Democratic nomination. He was the first candidate that I endorsed for the Democrats, alongside Ron Paul. I felt that Edwards was by far the most progressive mainstream candidate on the ballot, and that his history of successfully suin...

By Clay Waters In a silly political stunt, Sack claimed the findings validated former Democratic presidential candidate (and wealthy trial lawyer) John Edwards' left-wing ranting about "two Americas," even bringing in the failed candidate to explain how he was right all along.

By Katharine Jose In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Peggy Noonan accuses Clinton of "cognitive dissonance." The Washington Post editorial board doesn't think Clinton should go. John Kerry echoes Howard Dean's call to have the Democratic nomination wrapped up by July 1.

In 1974, Richard Nixon promoted the possibility of U.S. energy independence in six years. In 1975, Gerald Ford promised it in ten. And in 2007, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, John Edwards and John McCain all trumpeted energy independence as an essential priorit...

By Larry Jackson Clinton leads Obama in polls of black voters. Recent ABC News/Washington Post polling, for instance, found that 60% of black, Democratic-leaning voters supported Clinton, and 20% backed Obama. Brunson, president of the College Democrats chapter at Howard University in Washington, s...

By Asa I've had the privilege to see him speak about poverty (at a conference on the issue) and I know that he has both committed himself to taking action to fight poverty, and immersed himself in the policy options available.  I trust him to devote the same intellect and energy to the rest of his vis...

By Brent Baker Pickler suggested Edwards’ far-left platform had become mainstream and accepted, crediting Edwards with promoting “themes” that were “eventually adopted by the other Democratic presidential candidates -- and even a Republican, Mitt Romney.” But Pickler only named one “theme” tha...

By Ken Shepherd The exchange came in a jovial January 22 interview in which Edwards joked about having Letterman as his running mate, or at the very least as a celebrity endorser a la Oprah Winfrey. Former Sen. JOHN EDWARDS (D-N.C.): Yeah, I've noticed the same thing. EDWARDS: Most of what he says is crap.

By Turkana According to the latest polls, each of the Democratic candidates for president leads each of the Republican candidates, except for one. John McCain currently averages four points ahead of Hillary Clinton, and a point and change ahead of Barack Obama and John Edwards. Given the margins of...

How many of you came in supporting Senator Edwards?" [About 3 people raise hand] On issue after issue, we're going to show this to you tomorrow night, his language actually scored better than Senator Clinton and Senator Obama." [Fox News, 1/15/08]

By Brent Baker Insisting he's “not a conspiracy theorist,” Bill Maher, on the Friday night season debut of his HBO show, suggested that because Republicans prefer to run against Hillary Clinton than Barack Obama they engineered her victory in New Hampshire's Democratic primary. Later on Real Time wi...

Please see the "Ending Poverty in South Carolina Within a Generation" policy paper included below for more information on Edwards' plan to create a Working Society and end poverty in America.Ending Poverty In South Carolina Within A Generation

By norcal girl So now I give you a song that I think works well with this campaign. If Hillary Clinton has someone choose hers, then I hope John Edwards likes this one. Watch the video before reading the lyrics, which I included if you decided to continue reading. 8 Comments | Add Yours | Continue Reading »

Manchester, NH – As part of "Building a Better America Week," John Edwards announced today a bold policy to improve the quality of health care in America by taking on health insurance companies and preventing the abuses and gaps in health coverage that put millions of Americans at risk.

By George Stern But even more importantly, both are John Edwards supporters! We didn't just throw these guitars behind anyone," Bonnie said at one point. "We thought very carefully about who we wanted to support and it's clear that on all the issues, John Edwards is leading."

By WriteOn Monday, November 5, 2007 Hillary and Edwards In Hypocritical Battle Over Driver's Licenses For Illegals John Edwards has recently went on the attack via debates and campaign adds about Hillary Clinton's flip flopping on various issues. One of his favorite areas to pound Hillary has been her now infamous stance on offering driver's license to illegal aliens. "I heard her say two different things. I don't know what she's calling for. I mean she said the first time she was asked she said one thing and then when Senator Dodd said something, she said something different. That's what I heard," Edwards said at a recent debate. In a recent campaign video it was not necessary for him to say a single word. The inclusion of various speech clips from Hillary...   [read the full post]

By Justin McCarthy It is no secret that Chris Matthews is a shill for the Democrats and adamantly opposed to the Iraq War. The former Democratic staffer, who the previous night wrote a speech for Obama attacking Hillary Clinton from the left, endorsed "the sentiment" of a disruptive protestor.

WASHINGTON Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Wednesday encouraged his supporters to donate to his campaign in response to hateful comments from conservative author Ann Coulter.

By national@cfr.org (Council on Foreign Relations) May 23, 2007 Listen to Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator John Edwards discuss his foreign policy agenda as part of the Council's Campaign 2008 Series.

WASHINGTON Looking pretty is costing John Edwards presidential campaign a lot of pennies.