John Edwards, Father Of The Year 2007

John Edwards finally admitted to what has been known for some time.  He has a mistress, Rielle Hunter, but will not admit to being the father of her child. Edwards, being the man that he is, is willing to submit to a paternity test. I don’t want to have to hold my breath waiting for that to happen.

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Now the MSM has forced into this story kicking and screaming.  Keith Olbermann’s head must be ready to explode.

t/b:   Hot Air,   Michelle Malkin

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John Edwards will exit the Democrat Pary primary race. The announcement is expected at 1 pm today. The 2 Americas theme didn’t catch on I guess.

John Edwards to quit presidential race

Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voters’ sympathies but never diverted his campaign, The Associated Press has learned.

The two-time White House candidate notified a close circle of senior advisers that he planned to make the announcement at a 1 p.m. EST event in New Orleans that had been billed as a speech on poverty, according to two of his advisers. The decision came after Edwards lost the four states to hold nominating contests so far to rivals who stole the spotlight from the beginning — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

The former North Carolina senator will not immediately endorse either candidate in what is now a two-person race for the Democratic nomination, said one adviser, who spoke on a condition of anonymity in advance of the announcement.

Edwards waged a spirited top-tier campaign against the two better-funded rivals, even as he dealt with the stunning blow of his wife’s recurring cancer diagnosis. In a dramatic news conference last March, the couple announced that the breast cancer that she thought she had beaten had returned, but they would continue the campaign.

t/b: Michelle Malkin

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The Clinton’s inevitability for the Democrat Presidential nomination fades as her sense of entitlement is questioned.

Not a good night for the Clinton campaign. Barack Obama has won the Iowa Caucuses with a decisive victory over the supposed front runner, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hillary was only able to garner 11% of the total votes. The Clinton campaign has rough going for the remainder of this election runoff.

Will Obama be able to hold the lead for the balance of the primaries?

Clinton’s concession sounded strangely as a victory speech:

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, claiming to be unbowed by a third- place finish in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, hailed a “great night for Democrats” and said the strong turnout pointed to the sure election of a Democratic president in November. She said she would “keep pushing as hard as we can.”

But her poor showing here was a searing blow to the former first lady, dissolving her image as her party’s inevitable nominee and setting up a critical five-day race to Tuesday’s leadoff primary in New Hampshire.

Clinton told cheering supporters that she had congratulated caucus winner Sen. Barack Obama and the second-place finisher, former Sen. John Edwards. She promised to take “this enthusiasm and go tonight to New Hampshire.”

“We’re going to keep pushing as hard as we can,” she said, with former President Bill Clinton and their daughter Chelsea at her side. “I am so ready for the rest of this campaign and I am so ready to lead.”

Iowa Democrats delivered a cautionary tale to the New York senator, an established figure on the public stage who is running to be the first woman president.

Caucus goers appeared to reject the central premise of Clinton’s candidacy, favoring Obama’s message of hope and change over her theme of experience and leadership.

More troubling still was her performance among key groups that had been expected to form the core of her support.

Entrance polls in the state showed Obama narrowly beating Clinton among women voters, whom her campaign had expected to turn out in large numbers to support her pioneering quest. She also failed to win a majority of voters who called health care their chief concern, despite her long association with the issue.

Her candidacy also was swamped by a surge of first-time caucus goers who soundly supported Obama. Projections showed a turnout of 230,000 for Democrats, compared to 124,000 who showed up for Democratic caucuses in 2004. The turnout was nearly twice as large as for the Republicans, whose turnout also was up from four years ago.

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Hopefully this is the end of Hillary’s candidacy.

Andrea Mitchell describes Hillary Clinton’s concession rally on Thursday evening in Iowa:

“This room was, until about five or six minutes ago, completely empty. This is a manufactured ‘celebration.’ It really felt more like a funeral as people started strolling in from upstairs where they had obviously been gathered. This is unlike anything that I’ve ever seen, a completely empty, dirge-like event…”

t/b: Captain’s Quarters, Hot Air, Michelle Malkin

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