Is John Edwards' former aide covering for him?

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Is John Edwards' former aide covering for him?

By DAVID SCOTT and GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press Writers 41 minutes ago

For nearly a decade, Andrew Young was John Edwards' loyal foot soldier as Edwards rocketed from millionaire trial lawyer to U.S. senator to two-time White House hopeful. When Edwards needed someone to scout locations for a Senate campaign office, he sent Young. When TV trucks converged on Edwards' house in 2003 and damaged the neighbors' lawns, Young was told to take care of it. When it came time to raise money for Edwards' second run at the White House, Young was there to work the phones.

And when Edwards was confronted with the biggest crisis of his political career, Young was there again: After the National Enquirer reported that Edwards had an affair with a video producer, Young issued a statement in December saying that he — and not the candidate — was the father of the woman's baby. But given Young's unswerving devotion to Edwards — and given Edwards' lies in initially denying he cheated on his wife — some campaign watchers wonder whether Young, a 42-year-old married man, is taking the fall for his boss.

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Then, only weeks before the first vote of the 2008 presidential election season took place in Iowa, Young abruptly left the Edwards campaign and his $90,000-a-year job as a fundraiser, and dropped out of sight. He packed up and left North Carolina for California in a move bankrolled by Edwards' national fundraiser.

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Young, like Hunter, has gone into seclusion, and he has not returned messages in months. Calls this week to attorneys who represented him in the past were not returned. In the meantime, editorial writers and others have raised the possibility that Young is covering for his boss and that Edwards has not come clean.

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Earlier this year, he was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation and 24 hours of community service for the DWI. Court papers said he was living in California for work-related purposes. His attorney in that case did not return several calls. Fred Baron, Edwards' national finance chairman and a wealthy Dallas-based trial attorney, has acknowledged he quietly sent money to Hunter and to Young's family to resettle in California. Baron said he did so on his own, to "help two friends and former colleagues rebuild their lives when harassment by supermarket tabloids made it impossible for them to move forward on their own."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/ap_on_re_us/edwards_loyal_aide

[hobbit709]

1. And is it any of our business?

[cali]

2. and would you say that if he was a repup?

[LittleClarkie]

7. No. We were ready to crawl up Sen. Craig's ass

and certainly the details of McCain's affair are our business as well.

If this were a Republican, you wouldn't see people trying to explain how infidelity is a good thing, and pointing out how all the best presidents cheated on their wives, and the ones who didn't, like Nixon or Ford, were assholes.

It's sort of a reverse 1984 situation. Bad, is good.

[kestrel91316]

3. O. M. G. Give. It. Up. Already.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Question Everything. nt

[XOKCowboy]

5. My right finger is getting blisters from hiding Edwards threads..

[PurityOfEssence]

6. Su--san Col--lins--said, in a terse par--uh--graph that las--ted three--hours--and--fif--ty--

min--its--that--Mr.--Ed--wards--was--play--ing--fast--and--loose.

Reporters were agog at the uncustomarily animated display from Senator Collins, stating that her articulation had almost reached the dizzying precision of Lor--raine--Brac--co's.

Such perspicacity was cited as yet further proof of the undeniable truth of this assertion.

[Iggo]

8. Hell, until last week...

...even Elizabeth Edwards was covering for him.