"I WAS 99% HONEST ALL ALONG" AND OTHER BEDTIME STORIES BY JOHN E. WEASEL

The National Enquirer first reported on Edwards having an affair in October 2007, and followed up in December with a report that Hunter was pregnant with his child. At the time, former Edwards aide Andrew Young said he was the father."The story is false, it's completely untrue, it's ridiculous," Edwards told reporters in October.

But it was a July 22 report, detailing a confrontation with Enquirer reporters at 2:40 a.m. in the Beverly Hilton, that raised more questions about the Senator's involvement. The confrontation ended up with Edwards locking himself into a public bathroom until hotel security could come to the recue and escort him out.

And now for the years-late mea culpa, and hold onto your seat for this load of absolute crap....

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 percent 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.
It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me that I am sorry, as it is inadequate to say to the people who love me that I am sorry. In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic. If you want to beat me up -- feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help. I have given a complete interview (set to air on ABC on a Friday night, opposite the opening ceremony of the China Olympics) on this matter and having done so, will have nothing more to say.

ME, ME, ME......typical response from a slimy little weasel (as I have written all along the campaign trail). While his wife is fighting a deadly form of cancer, he somehow found the hubris to think he was "special", at least special enough to have an adulterous affair while his wife ponders life and death. Where was your so called "morals", your so called "faith", your so called "love" of your wife, as you stand before your girlfriend with your knickers around your ankles, knowing full well your place was to bew bedside....no, not with your girlfriend, but with your dying wife and family as they are being torn apart daily as your wife, yes, your wife, Senator, your wife and the mother of your children, is slowly being eaten away from the inside out from cancer?

How about the people sucker enough to believe your candidacy was anything other than one last ego trip; the ones who volunteered for you, quit their jobs and campaigned for you, spent their hard earned money on you and the campaign you knew was doomed as the press vetted you, the same people who gave up the most valuable thing any American has in this country, their vote on you.? AND LOOK WHAT YOU THREW IT ALL AWAY ON? Nice campaign staff, the candidate and a senior aide taking turns making "stump speeches on the road."