John Edwards Caught with Mistress, Love Child, Claims National Enquirer

John Edwards Affair Long Rumored

The National Enquirer is reporting that former Senator, former Presidential candidate twice over, former Vice Presidential candidate and possible running mate for Barack Obama has been caught in a Los Angeles hotel room with his mistress and his love child.

The mistress was identified as Rielle Hunter, a film maker who has produced a number of videos for John Edward's various campaigns. Both Rielle Hunter and John Edwards have denied the allegation published in the National Enquirer. A close friend of John Edwards, Andrew Young (not the former UN Ambassador and Mayor of Atlanta) has claimed to be the father of Rielle's Hunter's child.

John Edwards is married to Elizabeth Edwards, who is currently battling cancer.

If the story is true, former Senator John Edwards would not be the first politician to be taken in adultery. Former President Bill Clinton set the standard of political adulterer to such an extent that some have suggested that he was suffering from sexual addiction. On the other side of the aisle, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich managed to keep an affair he conducted during his Speakership secret.

President John F. Kennedy was famous for his adulterous affairs, revealed long after the fact. President Grover Cleveland was suspected of having a mistress and fathering a love child during the 1884 Presidential Campaign. "Ma, ma, where's my pa?" jeered Cleveland's political opponents. "Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha," replied Cleveland's supporters when he won the election.

The revelation of John Edward's possible adultery and fathering a love child would just be the subject of entertainment and perhaps a little moral outrage had it not been for the possibility that Barack Obama might choose him as his running mate. Unlike a number of other Democratic politicians, John Edwards has expressed his willingness to take on the job should he be asked.