Poverty another casualty of Edwards affair

• It has been nine months since former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) put his megaphone down, stopped talking about the “moral shame” of 37 million Americans who live in poverty every day, and started addressing his own “moral shame.”

• Most of America had forgotten about all of this. Only people who are close to this story like former staffers, donors and supporters, politicos and pundits in Washington have followed it. But Elizabeth has a new book, “Resilience,” she is going on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on Thursday, and the story is turning up all over the news like a bad penny.

• Why do this? That’s the question. Why put four children through the scandal and spotlight all over again? Why pour salt on the wound for those who gave up their lives to work on the cause? Why play with fire when so many feel that what Elizabeth and John did — launch a campaign for the presidency in which they asked people to raise millions of dollars, knowing it never had a chance at succeeding — was fraud?

• No one. No national Democratic leader has decided to make ending poverty for those who work in this country the cause of their lives. No leading and respected Republican has stepped forward to attend to the “Lord’s work here on earth.” And those whose knee-jerk reaction is to laugh at that idea should read the late Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp’s inspiring chapter in John’s book, “Ending Poverty in America,” about encouraging entrepreneurial efforts in the forgotten and neglected areas of this country.

• Please, will someone pick up that megaphone? It’s been nine months, and that’s too long to focus on the sorrows of a family when we could be easing the struggles of millions.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Edwards facing federal probe for using campaign money to pay off mistress.

There are two Americas after all.  In one, people pay off mistresses with their own money, while in the other, the very wealthy ironically use other people’s money to do it.  Federal investigators have begun probing John Edwards’ campaign records to see whether he broke the law in paying off Rielle Hunter, the mistress and apparently the mother of his youngest child

The only poll to get 2004 correct is showing a much closer national race than almost every other poll:

The race tightened again Sunday as independents who’d been leaning to Obama shifted to McCain to leave that key group a toss-up. McCain also pulled even in the Midwest, moved back into the lead with men, padded his gains among Protestants and Catholics, and is favored for the first time by high school graduates.

Ed:

The internals are interesting, but the topline results show two potentially disturbing trends for Obama.  First, Obama has never gotten to 50% in the TIPP poll, and now has dropped below 47%.  A Democrat hasn’t won 50% of the vote in decades, and Obama may have the same problem John Kerry had in 2004.  Related to that is the high level of undecideds.  Almost 9% still have not made up their minds about the election, and as I wrote earlier today, that bodes ill for Obama.  If he hasn’t made the sale with this group by now, it’s likely that most of them will wind up in McCain’s column on Tuesday.

How do we know this?  Independents have begun to break for McCain. McCain now leads 45-43.  A week ago, Obama led 43-38 with 19% undecided.  The entire 7% that has come out of the undecided column in that period have gone to McCain, and 12% of them still have to make up their minds.  Interestingly, slightly more Democrats than Republicans are undecided ” not good news for Obama.

I wouldn’t be so quick to call him the President Elect just yet! Just remember this from 2006:

Credit where it’s due: He had the spreads in both races almost right. He just, um, got the winners and losers wrong.
Some of you may have noticed.

About California: Some of you may have noticed our pre-election polling differed from the actual results. It appears that we underestimated Hispanic turnout and overestimated the importance of younger Hispanic voters. We also overestimated turnout among African-American voters. Those of you who have been following our work know that we have gotten 13 out of 17 races right this year, and so many others over the years. This does happen.

Exit question: Papa Bear says he’s learned his lesson and will drink no more from the well of Zogby. Blogospheric boycott too?

Meryl makes a good case for ignoring the polls and voting McCain

Linked with:

• IBD/TIPP: Obama +2, under 50% : Stop The ACLU
• MishMashZone » IBD/TIPP Poll: Obama +2 Under 50%
• Pew Poll: McCain Narrows Obama Lead To Six Points
• The Irascible Chef » Maybe, Yogi Could Phrase it Better:
• Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler » Take That, Eeyores (UPDATED)

We had Colin Powell and now Ben Bernanke apparently wants four more years as Federal Reserve Chairman. At least that’s a reasonable conclusion after Mr. Bernanke all but submitted his job application to Barack Obama yesterday by endorsing the Democratic version of fiscal “stimulus.”

OBAMA CAUGHT SAYING ACORN AND FRIENDS WILL SHAPE HIS PRESIDENTIAL AGENDA

Sen. Cornyn Seeks Nationwide Federal Probe of ACORN

The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001

Dear General Mukasey:

I am increasingly concerned by reports of widespread election fraud by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (“ACORN”), which seem to emerge on a daily basis.

Specifically, I call your attention to state and local investigations into potentially hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications filed by ACORN in North Carolina, Ohio, Nevada, Michigan, Florida, New Mexico, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Washington, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and my home state of Texas. In Harris County, Texas, which includes the City of Houston, election officials either rejected or discovered serious deficiencies with nearly 40 percent of the 27,000 registration cards filed by ACORN from January through July of this year.

Most recently, election officials in Lake County, Indiana, found more than 2,100 fraudulent voter registration applications that were filed at the deadline by ACORN. According to a CNN report, at least one of ACORN’s applications in Lake County attempted to register a dead man. In addition, The St. Petersburg Times (FL) reported today that Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer. Although Orange County elections officials rejected his application, it is notable that Mickey Mouse’s application had an ACORN stamp on it. In addition, The [Raleigh, NC] News & Observer also reported today that ACORN conducted a voter drive that registered nearly 28,000 people in North Carolina. But according to local election officials some of the forms it filed had information that may have been copied from phone books.

Election fraud imposes a real cost on our system, beyond the obvious consequence of subverting a free and fair election. Fraudulent voter registration on this scale seriously strains state and local elections resources and distracts elections officials from preparing to conduct an orderly election. Of course, ACORN’s nationwide voter registration fraud provides an opportunity for individuals to vote who should not, or for some to vote more than once.

Given these allegations, as well as the well-documented fraud convictions in recent years of ACORN employees, I urge you to launch a nationwide criminal probe into ACORN’s voter registration activities. As you know, federal law prohibits an individual from (1) providing fraudulent voter registration information; (2) conspiring to encourage false registration or illegal voting; and (3) paying or offering to pay another individual for registering or voting. It is also a crime to knowingly procure or submit false, fictitious, or fraudulent voter registration applications. Finally, I must add that, because the violations of federal voting laws by ACORN employees appear to be so widespread, ACORN and its affiliates should be investigated as a criminal enterprise.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

JOHN CORNYN

United States Senator

ACORN Watch: RICO suit filed in Ohio

The Buckeye Institute, a Columbus-based think tank, today filed a state RICO action against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) on behalf of two Warren County voters. The action filed in Warren County Court of Common Pleas alleges ACORN has engaged in a pattern of corrupt activity that amounts to organized crime. It seeks ACORN’s dissolution as a legal entity, the revocation of any licenses in Ohio, and an injunction against fraudulent voter registration and other illegal activities.

Plaintiffs Jennifer Miller of Mason, Ohio and Kimberly Grant of Loveland, allege that ACORN’s actions deprive them of the right to participate in an honest and effective elections process. They allege fraudulent voter registrations submitted by ACORN dilute the votes of legally registered voters.

“The right to cast a vote that is not diluted by fraudulent votes is a fundamental individual right,” Buckeye Institute President David Hansen said.

“ACORN appears to be recklessly disregarding Ohio laws and adding thousands of fraudulent voters to the state’s roles in the process,” Maurice Thompson, Director of the Buckeye Institute’s 1851 Center for Constitutional Law said. “Such voter fraud erodes the value of legally cast votes,” he added.

In the complaint, Thompson cites an accumulation of evidence showing numerous instances of admitted fraud by ACORN employees, as well as individuals solicited by ACORN.

“In light of its hiring, training and compensation practices, ACORN should have known its conduct would cause fraud,” Thompson said. “It also should know that its conduct will cause fraud in the future.”

In addition, the complaint cites conduct by ACORN in Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

Full complaint is here.

Now Minnesota joins the ACORN parade

The Hennepin County Attorney’s office said today it is investigating whether a voter registration processing lapse at the Minnesota ACORN office falls within guidelines for criminal prosecution.

A malfunctioning scanner at ACORN’s St. Paul offices in August created a backlog that caused a batch of cards to be submitted late to the Hennepin County Elections Board.

All of the registrations were processed in time to allow voters to participate in both the primary and general elections. None was discarded for fraud or ineligibility.

ACORN Watch: 1 voter, 72 registrations, ciggies and cash

A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

“Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they’ll give me a dollar to sign up,” said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

“The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, ‘You are?’ I say, ‘Yup,’ and then they say, ‘Can you just sign up again?’ ” he said.

Obama: I don’t need ACORN’s help

Obama replied: “[F]irst of all, my relationship to ACORN is pretty straightforward. It’s probably 13 years ago when I was still practicing law, I represented ACORN and my partner in that representation was the US Justice Department in having Illinois implement what was called the ‘Motor Voter’ law, to make sure that people could go to DMV’s and drivers’ license facilities to get registered.. It wasn’t being implemented. That was my relationship and is my relationship to ACORN.

“There is an ACORN organization in Chicago,” Obama continued. “They have been active. As an elected official, I’ve had interactions with them. But they are not advising our campaign. We’ve got the best voter registration and turnout and volunteer operation in politics right now and we don’t need ACORN’s help.

“My understanding in terms of the voter fraud, because having run a voter registration drive, I know how problems arise, this is typically a situation where ACORN probably paid people to get registrations and these folks, not wanting to actually register people because that’s actually hard work, just went into a phone book or made up names and submitted false registrations to get paid,” Obama said. “So there’s been fraud perpetrated probably on ACORN if they paid these individuals and they actually didn’t do registrations.”

“But this isn’t a situation where there’s actually people who are going to try to vote ’cause these are phony names,” Obama said. “And, it’s doubtful (Dallas Cowboys quarterback) Tony Romo (whose name has been fraudulently submitted) is gonna show up in Ohio to vote. So this is another one of these distractions that gets stirred up in the course of a campaign.

“But what I want to make sure of, is that this is not used as an excuse for the kind of voter suppression strategies and tactics that we’ve seen in the past. Let’s just make sure everybody is voting, everybody’s registered. Let’s make sure that everybody’s doing it in a lawful way.”

The extent of his relationship with ACORN was as a lawyer? No training sessions for Project Vote or $800,000 campaign outlays to ACORN affiliates for GOTV efforts?

ACORN REGISTERS ‘MICKEY MOUSE’

And for some non-ACORN voter fraud:

ACLU Pressuring Registrars in Virginia to Illegally Allow Out-of-State College Students to Vote in Virginia

Tracy Howard, Radford’s registrar, is paying special attention to voter registration applications that cite a Radford University dorm room as a potential voter’s address, but a student organization and the ACLU of Virginia say that’s illegal.

Howard says he’s following Virginia law the same way he has for 16 years.

“If they give me only a dorm address,” he said, “they will be sent something called a pending denial. It says that you need to have a street address, permanent address, in order to register to vote.”

Kent Willis, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, said, “This can only be construed as an attempt to dissuade students from registering to vote in Radford or a ploy to trick them into providing contradictory information that could stall the registration process past the deadline.”

Virginia registrars rarely have problems with students registering to vote, Willis said.

“When they care is when students are geared up to register in large numbers,” he said. “Suddenly, that upsets the whole local power structure.”

Across the country, new voters, particularly young voters, are registering in record numbers, most of them to cast ballots in the presidential race.

Howard says student registration drives are an issue. Groups conducting these drives “have at best simply misinformed on-campus individuals and at worst lied to them” about registration rules, he wrote in his response to the ACLU. They are also holding applications longer than they’re supposed to and flooding Howard’s office with them.

In a letter to Howard on Monday, Rebecca Glenberg, the ACLU’s legal director, cited a string of court decisions that say students can’t be treated differently from other people attempting to register to vote.

“Every individual citizen has the right to vote,” Howard responded. “No individual has the right to register to vote in a community based upon convenience, false information or lies.”

The RU Fair Voter Registration Alliance formed Sept. 15 after student Nikki Rampino registered using her dorm address and received a pending denial notice. After Rampino went to Howard’s office and complained, her application was approved. She got her voter identification card Monday.

Beyond Obamacorn: Democrat Party voter fraud in Louisiana

“They walked in here just mounding up cards,” said Registrar of Voters for Caddo Parish, Ernie Roberson while looking over a box full of thousands of voter registration cards. “They” are a group called Voting is Power, that went door to door in Caddo Parish to register people to vote, “They turned in about 8600 applications, out of that number 1400 new ones, sorted out the new and then we had around 1400 address changes, the rest of them were non existent,” says Roberson.
Before the organization ACORN starting appearing in headlines for reported registration fraud, VIP caught the attention of Louisiana authorities over the summer. “They swamped all of us with a lot of applications but we haven’t had the problem since we aggressively started dealing with that group and I think they just picked up and left Louisiana,” says Roberson.
The Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office is investigating the group, Voting is Power. The Secretary of State won’t comment on the investigation, only to say all the findings will be turned over to the parish district attorneys in the parishes where the cards were turned in. The fear here in Caddo is: The damage has already been done “What I’m afraid of is a lot of people think they are registered, and that’s going to cause problems on election day,” says Roberson. That’s because many of the applications turned in, even with real names, were incomplete, a big headache resulting in thousands of man hours. “It costs money, democracy is very expensive whenever you have to sort through hundreds and even thousands of forms that are either duplicates or completely bogus that costs us time. Ultimately costing the taxpayer money.

Background from yes, the NYTimes:

Democratic officials said the Louisiana drive, which was called Voting is Power, had produced 74,000 applications by the time it concluded last week. Registrars in the four main parishes where the drive operated report numbers closer to 50,000, but there is no breakdown of how many were submitted to other parishes.

Registrars have reported that as many as a third of the applications cannot be entered into the system, and many of the rest require more information. The state Republican Party called the operation “the Dems’ phony registration drive.”

All I could think of was History Of The World Part I:

Dole Office Clerk: Occupation?
Comicus: Stand-up philosopher.
Dole Office Clerk: What?
Comicus: Stand-up philosopher. I coalesce the vapors of human existence into a viable and meaningful comprehension.
Dole Office Clerk: Oh, a *bullshit* artist!
Comicus: Hmmmmmm…
Dole Office Clerk: Did you bullshit last week?
Comicus: No.
Dole Office Clerk: Did you try to bullshit last week?
Comicus: Yes!

Others Blogging:

• BizzyBlog » Obama + ACORN = Vote Fraud: Warren County, Ohio RICO Lawsuit Filed
• BlueRidgeForum » Ohio Election Fraud Threatens Our National Foundations
• Little Miss Attila
• Bloodthirsty Liberal » ACORN Squashed [UPDATED]
• Jules Crittenden » Life Imitates TPM
• Hot Air » Blog Archive » Transcript: Palin and Limbaugh on Obama and ACORN
• PoliGazette » Columbus Think Tank Files Rico Action Against ACORN
• Transcript: Palin and Limbaugh on Obama and ACORN | Saint Sarah Palin
• ACORN in Ohio: “RICORN?” « WitSnapper | The Blog
• ACORN Slapped With A RICO Suit In Ohio « Beltway Snark
• RICO Suit Filed Against ACORN in Ohio « The Chronicles Of A Rogue Jew
• Now Minnesota joins the ACORN parade | OBAMA ACORN
• StopACORN.org « Gunservatively!
• ACORN tries to register Mickey Mouse « Right Minded Online
• : ACORN tries to register Mickey Mouse as a voter in Florida: : P.U.M.A
• ACORN Tries To Registers Mickey Mouse To Vote In Florida « The Chronicles Of A Rogue Jew
• Obamacorn « Kerfuffles and Flourishes
• have you seen this? | Blatherings Blog
• JammieWearingFool
• ACORN REGISTERS ‘MICKEY MOUSE’ | Right Voices
• Obama: Tied to ACORN | Axis of Right
• This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here » Blog Archive » ACORN-registered phony voter caught
• silent E speaks – Conservatively Speaking from Western Waukesha County » Mickey Freakin’ Mouse!!!!
• Obamacorn, Mickey Mouse, and John McCain « Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian
• This is not the ACORN I knew: « A Political Dookie
• ACORN Is Out Of Control « Desert Martini
• ACORN Link Dump « Nice Deb
• Jules Crittenden » Life Imitates TPM
• Elephant Owners » Blog Archive » Obamacorn
• Hot Air » Blog Archive » Transcript: Palin and Limbaugh on Obama and ACORN
• Vote fraud: The ACORN Breakdown | The Anchoress
• Obama camp feverishly distancing itself from ACORN | Mofo Politics | Everything McCain, Obama, Palin, and that other guy-related
• DSCC-Funded Group Under Investigation for Voter Fraud | The American Pundit
• NAACP Endorses McCain, KKK, Obama Halloween Display | BigMouthFrog
• Heads Up: ACORN Clone Progressive Future–More Voter Fraud? « Pronk Palisades
• Bloodthirsty Liberal » Association for Criminal Organizing in this Racist Nation
• Connect the Dots: Obama+ACORN=Economic Crisis « Shem Thoughts
• Mofo Politics | Everything McCain, Obama, Palin, and that other guy-related» Blog Archive » Video: CNN investigates Obama/ACORN link, massive voter fraud
• Community Organizer: Career Track to President of the United States « Retractable Horns & Tail
• Is Obama Trying To Steal The Election? « The Chronicles Of A Rogue Jew
• OpenMarket.org » Archive » Voter Fraud in Virginia Abetted by ACLU
• Neocon News » Just how much do the Dems care about poor voters?
• Obama Campaign illegally gave 800 Thousand Dollars to ACORN, Caught! « POLITISITE: Politics from the RIGHT Side of the WEB
• Webloggin » IHT: Complaint Filed Against Obama Campaign For Fictitious Campaign Donors
• Brain Shavings
• OpenMarket.org » Archive » Election Season Gives Me Imaginary Relatives
• It’s ACORN-Mania! « Beltway Snark
• The very end of Chew: Barak and Roll « Chockblock’s blog
• ACORN raid marks wider fraud probe « WitSnapper | The Blog
• Mass Fraud Fears In US Election – TeakDoor.com – The Thailand Forum
• Scared Enough Yet? « Half-Baked Sourdough
• Felons for Obama « A Political Dookie
• There’s My Two Cents
• miamipress.net | miamipress.net
• Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Voters testify before Ohio elections board that ACORN registered them multiple times
• From Little ACORNs Mighty Oak Trees Grow « All The News That Fits
• Webloggin » Video: CNN Finally Reports Massive Voter Fraud by ACORN
• What is Acorn? – Page 2 – YardLimits.com
• Obama & ACORN- The TTC Phone Call « The Teen Conservative Blog
• Video- For your viewing pleasure, even MORE voter fraud in Ohio « The Daley Gator
• ACORN hearings begin in Ohio « WitSnapper | The Blog
• Who you want to be Commander in Chief – Page 2 – ExpressJet Forum
• Bloodthirsty Liberal » ACORN Busted
• Swamp Hermit’s *QUICK* Bits « The Swamp Hermit’s Report
• The ACORN Smoking Gun? « Beltway Snark
• On the Right
• The Gingrich Revolution In Reverse And On Steroids | BigMouthFrog
• NAACP Endorses McCain, KKK, Obama Halloween Display | BigMouthFrog
• And another Obama pal bites the dust:kind of « Mcnorman’s Weblog
• On the Right
• Obama: I don’t need ACORN’s help | PoliticsMuch.com

From MM:

Both the Obama campaign and many media commentators claim that McCain’s recent sex-education ad is a sleazy, dishonorable, blatant, clear-cut lie.

Do these critics have a point?

First, read the bill, especially line 14, and judge for yourself.

Now, read this excellent article in National Review Online by Byron York, who interviewed one of the bill’s sponsors.

After reading the bill and York’s article, it’s hard to disagree with York’s conclusion:

“[T]he bill’s intention was to mandate sex education, especially concerning contraception and the prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases, for children before the sixth grade and as early as kindergarten. Obama’s defenders may howl, but the bill is what it is.”

Allahpundit:

Obama’s been in stressing that the thrust of the bill was to teach kids how to recognize molestation.   In fact, the bill was a comprehensive overhaul of the state’s sex ed curriculum, replete with replacing language about teaching abstinence as the “expected norm” with language about abstinence being just one method of preventing pregnancy. Read York for details. My question’s simply this: How do we square the passage on teaching kindergarteners about STDs, which is located in subsection (a) of the bill, with the age-appropriate language in subsection (c)? Quote:

All sex education courses that discuss sexual activity or behavior intercourse shall satisfy the following criteria:

(1) Factual information presented in course material and instruction shall be medically accurate and objective.

(2) All : course material and instruction shall be age and developmentally appropriate.

Obama shills are ignoring the STD clause while Team Maverick’s ignoring the age-appropriate clause, the better to make it seem like The One endorses interrupting sandbox time for show-and-tell sessions involving rolling condoms onto a banana. Alas, they’re both in the bill, leaving us to wonder what sort of information on AIDS and syphilis is “developmentally appropriate” for five-year-olds.

You be the judge….

Others blogging:

• Hector Projector Alert: Obama’s “Honor” Ad Shows His Own Sleaziness at Haemet
• Obama supports sex ed for kindergarteners « Write Wing Politics
• Obama’s Kindergarten Sex Ed « Above My Pay Grade!
• Did Obama want sex-ed for kindergartners or not? Here is the bill read it for yourself. « The IUSB Vision Weblog

Women are feeling slighted by the Democratic party,  so what will cheer them up?  An abortion ad!  That’s right, an Abortion ad:

“Let me tell you: If Roe vs. Wade is overturned, the lives and health of women will be put at risk. That’s why this election is so important,” says the nurse-practitioner who narrates Obama’s ad. “John McCain’s out of touch with women today. McCain wants to take away our right to choose. That’s what women need to understand. That’s how high the stakes are.”

Barack obama gained a point from yesterday and now attracts 45% of the vote nationwide while John McCain earns 44%.  The bad news? When “leaners” are included, it’s Obama 47% and McCain 47%.

The really bad news?  300 advisers, $350 million raised, the alphabet of networks actively campaigning for him, and all he got was a lousy point!

Obama referring to Bush now as “John McCain’s president”

Media Blog’s less than amused to find the candidate of Hopenchange pulling tired shadow-government rhetoric from Ace’s Little Leftwing Book of Civil Political Discourse, but we are after all talking about a guy with his own presidential seal. This reminds me of when Democrats go abroad to commiserate with enemy leaders in that I’m never sure what the proper response is: Tit for tat, or take the high road? Complaining about it doesn’t do any good, but “let’s see how you like it when we do it” seems vastly worse. Exit question: How do you solve this problem? Besides, of course, putting Obama on the spot by asking him to tell us who “his” president is.

Want an Obama lawn sign? Cough up the cash!

A few days ago I received a letter from Barack Obama, pleading that I “rush a generous contribution” to him. I placed the return envelope in my checkbook.

The same evening I got a call from his campaign asking me to door-knock on the weekend. I already had plans but I agreed to future weekends.

Then I requested a lawn sign. The volunteer informed me that I could buy one at campaign headquarters.

Buy one? Purchased in bulk, a two-color lawn sign might cost the Obama campaign $1. I checked the Obama ‘08 Web site. They offer the budget-conscious supporter a generic 26-by-16-inch sign for $8. For those Obamites into conspicuous consumption, the site advertises a variety of 22-by-15-inch designer signs for $19.99. If this were an oil company, the Democrats would be accusing it of price gouging. As Kurt Vonnegut put it, “So it goes.”

Or as Ace said,  “I’m Not Saying Edwards is the Baby’s Father, But She Has Edwards’ Eyes, Chin, and Lips, and Also, She’s Edwards’ Daughter”  =))  Here’s the story