Celebrity Divorce: Which "Celebrity-Politician" Displayed the Worst Judgment?

Okay, "class," here is your assignment! Yes, you, the blog reader, are invited to consider and comment on the following question:

In your opinion, which of these two celebrity-politicians, Governor Mark Sanford, or Senator John Edwards, has displayed the worst judgment in damaging/wrecking his marriage, based upon published reports? What do you think and why? How can everyone else avoid the horrible mistakes made by these two men? Please try to complete this "divorce class assignment" by Wednesday!

A Tale of John Edwards: A Poem About A Politician and Adultery

"A Tale of John Edwards"

By Richard Goolsby

John Edwards--Is he just a politician

Whose morals were lax?

Please pull up a chair,

As we examine the facts.

Son of Senaca, South Carolina,

From a poor ma and pa,

John earned a law degree

From the N.C. School of Law.

His career shot high,

Just like a shuttle rocket,

John could make jurors cry,

While he picked their pockets!

John earned millions from trials,

He was set for life.

John began a family,

With Elizabeth, his wife.

But John yearned for more,

This "giant among men,"

"Why not try politics,

With my Jimmy Carter grin?"

In '98, John first won

When he ran for the Senate,

He made more women swoon

Than Buble to Bennett.

John was as slick a politician

As politicians can get.

John was so slick he could swim

Without getting wet!

Then, in '04, John lost

As Kerry's running mate.

Then, he lost again,

On his own, when he ran in '08.

His true colors were clear,

No if's, ands, or buts,

We all saw his hypocrisy

With his two hundred dollar haircuts!

In his hypocritical campaign

About "Two Americas,"

One day, out of the blue,

There..."She" was!

That day, John met Rielle,

A young film producer,

Did he think it was wise

When he began to seduce her?

How low did John go

When he began to romance her?

Should you consider he left home

A wife sick with cancer?

An affair in hiding,

A marriage defiled,

A career in ruins,

A little love child.

Still lower did John go?

How much did it bother

When he first denied the affair,

And then, that he was the father?

Did he make a sex tape?

Will the feds eat his dinner?

Will an aide's "tell-all" book

Make John a loser or winner?

Now, you can decide,

Is John a lecher, or a faker,

A player, or a cheater,

Like in the Benatar song, "Heart Breaker?"

Or will you decide

We should forgive and forget?

Is John Edwards no worse

Than the Clintons we've met?

As for me, it is clear

About this grinning "mouse among men,"

I never want to hear

About John Edwards again!

John and Elizabeth Edwards Legally Separate

John and Elizabeth Edwards separate after love child

BBC

US politician John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, have separated, days after he admitted fathering an illegitimate child.

Mrs. Edwards, who has inoperable cancer, had until now stood by her husband of three decades, who ran for the 2008 Democratic White House nomination.

He admitted the affair with film-maker Rielle Hunter in 2008 but had denied her child was his, until last week.

Mr. Edwards called the split with his wife "an extraordinarily sad moment".

"I love my children more than anything and still care deeply about Elizabeth," he said in a statement to the Associated Press (AP) news agency.

Mrs Edwards, 60, has not made a public comment on the separation.

Her sister, Nancy Anania, told AP: "She's doing as well as you could expect.

"I'm really proud of her that, somehow, she's got strength that you rarely see in a person."

Publisher Random House, which released Mrs Edwards's book, Resilience, last year, said in a statement she was "moving on with her life and wants to put this difficult chapter behind her".

When Mr Edwards, 56, admitted the affair with Ms Hunter in August 2008, after a press report, he said it had ended in 2006 and denied paternity.

When he finally came clean in early 2010, the Democrats' former rising star told US media he had been wrong to insist Frances Quinn Hunter, now nearly two years old, was not his daughter.

Mrs. Edwards, who has breast cancer, said then that the whole family was relieved he had owned up.

The child was born on 27 February, 2008, suggesting she was conceived in mid-2007, several months after Ms. Hunter stopped being employed by the Edwards campaign, and in the early stages of the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The story was further complicated by the fact a former aide to Mr. Edwards, Andrew Young, had himself at one time claimed paternity.

Mr. Young is due to release a tell-all book detailing Mr. Edwards's affair, called The Politician, in the next few days.

Mr. Edwards, who also ran for vice-president alongside Senator John Kerry in 2004 and once served as a senator for North Carolina, stepped out of the race for the Democratic ticket in January 2008 after failing to win a single primary.

The nomination was finally won by Barack Obama, who went on to be elected US president.

The Edwards's eldest son, Wade, was killed in a car crash at the age of 16. They have three other children.

Divorce: Elizabeth and John Edwards?

By now, we all know all about the allegations made against former Presidential candidate, John Edwards, concerning his alleged adultery while he was running for President and while his wife was cancer-stricken. We also all know that, initially, he allegedly tried to get an aide to claim that he, not Edwards, had actually had the affair and had gotten his paramour pregnant. We also have all heard about Edwards' denials that he was the father of her love child, only to recently hear Edwards confess that he is, in fact, the child's father.

Now, it has been reported today, by numerous sources, that Elizabeth and John Edwards have finally separated. Who, on the planet Earth, could possibly blame Elizabeth Edwards if she has, in fact, finally kicked him out? What would you do?

Is this the end of the story? Will other shoes drop? What, if anything, will happen in the on-going federal criminal investigation concerning whether or not Edwards improperly used campaign funds to pay his paramour?

'Nuff said...for now.