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Mon 08 Aug 2008Revelation of affair destroys credibility of top Democrat
UNITED STATES:JOHN EDWARDS, who employed a populist message and an image as a devoted family man in two serious runs for president, derailed his political career at the weekend when he admitted to an extramarital affair and repeatedly lying about it.
The former North Carolina senator and the Democratic Party's last vice-presidential candidate admitted to a short affair in 2006 and said in a statement that he had "made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs".
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