A New National Enquirer John Edwards Story, Just In Time for Obama's VP Announcement

How much does the Obamessiah hate John Edwards right about now? A lot, I bet, especially with this new National Enquirer story coming out about Edwards, his mistress, and his "love" child (don't miss the new cover at this link) just in time for Obama's VP announcement and the Democrat Convention:

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER’s exclusive ongoing investigation uncovers shocking new revelations about The John Edwards Scandal!

The day prior to Edwards bombshell admission to an affair on ABC’s Nightline, Rielle Hunter and her 6 month old daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter, were flown out of the US onboard a chartered Learjet.

The private flight cost $50,000 and was paid for by Edwards’ pals. The Hunters were the solo passengers aboard the eight-hour flight.

Destination: St. Croix in the Virgin Islands!

THE ENQUIRER tracked Rielle to St. Croix where our reporters discovered Rielle and the baby stayed in a luxurious oceanfront home owned by controversial trial lawyer Lee Rohn, another close friend of Edwards.

When visited by an ENQUIRER reporter on August 15, Rohn snapped a terse “No comment!” when questioned about Hunter.

Former Virgin Island Senator Anne Golden confirmed to THE ENQUIRER that “within 24 hours of their arrival that they were here and staying with Lee Rohn.”

After the ENQUIRER discovered Rielle’s hideaway with Rohn, she was moved to a motel on the island before returning to Santa Barbara on August 17 according to another source.

An ENQUIRER reporter then saw Rielle back in her California home, which is being paid for by Edwards’ former finance chairman Fred Baron.

And Rielle now has an off-duty police officer guarding her house.

None of this is paid for by Rielle. The money continues to come from Edwards’s network of loyal supporters, with no explanation from Edwards why he is having his friends continue to support Rielle now that the affair has been made public.

Edwards is not only aware of the hush money payoffs but orchestrated it with his team of former campaign advisors and now The ENQUIRER has discovered that a team of six more lawyers have been involved in the coverup and are funneling payments to Hunter, who has no money and no means of support.

The ENQUIRER has also learned that Hunter's own lawyer advised her to allow Edwards to take a paternity test but she refused out of misguided belief that Edwards will marry her after the death of his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth.

Edwards is really starting to look like a first class skunk, even more so when you read this:

The executive editor of The News and Observer newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, says that John Edwards called him last October to ask that a story about his then-alleged affair not be published. John Drescher writes that Edwards told him on the call the story shouldn't be run because of his wife's cancer. Drescher said Edwards emphasized it twice, saying, "Given Elizabeth's health — she has cancer — he said it was especially important to him that the story did not run in The N&O."

Drescher says Edwards explained that the Raleigh paper arrived on his family's doorstep every day, and was read by friends. The call from Edwards came on the same day he first denied the National Enquirer story about the affair with videographer Rielle Hunter. Editors at News and Observer had already decided not to run the story when Edwards called because they determined it was a little thin.

Drescher says the conversation was off the record, but that he now feels free to report what was said because Edwards lied.