Sources have told WRAL News that they expect former U.S. Sen. John Edwards to admit that he is the father of his former mistress’ 18-month-old daughter.

Shocking.

Elizabeth, 59, who is terminally ill with cancer, speaks in far more detail than before about her husband’s infidelity in her new memoir, “Resilience,” due to be published May 12 by Broadway Books. A copy was obtained by the Daily News.

Despite feeling deeply deceived, Elizabeth Edwards nonetheless publicly stood by her husband’s side, lending his candidacy the aura of a warm, loving family life.

But she had actually wanted him to quit the race to protect the family. Edwards admitted the hanky-panky to her days after declaring his candidacy in 2006 – almost a year before the National Enquirer reported it.

John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extra-marital affair with a novice film-maker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.

In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 42-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.

His argument that he isn’t the father sounds really shaky, as well as the payoff story. What an amazingly irresponsible, immoral and reckless thing to do — I mean, this is a guy who was running for president.

Bullet dodged.

I, and other people, think that Obama needs an older possibly gubernatorial person to balance his negatives but he may go the Clinton route and pick a candidate that echoes himself. If anything, the optics of two young looking candidates versus McCain would be amplified.

CNN has confirmed that former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards will endorse Barack Obama at a Michigan campaign event about an hour from now.

I like Sen. Edwards a lot but I just feel like his campaign has been stuck in the muck for a long-ass time and they are nowhere near digging out.

The saga we continue to document (because we need an excuse to post Angelina Jolie pictures) continues.

Edwards press secretary Eric Schultz, at the bottom of an email to supporters:

“P.S. Angelina, I swear I lost your number. Call me. Didn’t realize you’d hold a grudge like this.”

Will this passive campaigning work? Couldn’t Obama or Clinton swoop in with a phone call just about now and get Angelina on board?

Angelina Jolie

They got into a huge fight about politics (Brad supports Barack Obama, while Angie’s a John Edwards fan.) Brad ended up calling her immature. He says the next thing he knew, Angie was cursing at him and throwing a glass of wine in his face.”

We use Fox News standards to determine these endorsements so third-hand gossip in celebrity magazines are as good as a direct statement.

Why? Because most people who are in poverty either don’t think of themselves as impoverished or prefer more aspirational approaches to getting out of poverty. Most people who are poor statistically when asked will likely not say that they’re poor. In fact, they’re probably likely to say that they’re “middle class”. It’s the same way as if you ask people that are by many standards wealthy, they’re also likely to describe themselves as “middle class”. I think it’s kind of an American thing to want to be part of the middle class, because we have one in this country while other nations you’re either really rich or really poor. Since about the post-WWII boom we’ve had this inbetween state that the bulk of us belong too, and no matter the reality of your fiscal situation, you still probably identify with this group (This is also why I cringe when I hear Democrats and progressives drone on about “working people”. It just sounds like elitists talking down to people when you say that.)

The other reason why I think it doesn’t work is because Sen. Edwards’ rhetoric too readily accepts the idea of poverty. He discusses how to raise people out of poverty with concrete policy, but I don’t think people want to hear that. Many liberals pooh-pooh this, but the vast majority of Americans still believe in the Horatio Alger story, and while it is clearly much harder to make that happen nowadays thanks to the concentration of wealth and the conservative racket designed to protect that concentration, you will still sell people better on your policies when you make it clear that they’ll be “moving on up”.

The discussion of poverty, class, and the great American dream of upward mobility is one where a realistic discussion is a clunker. Americans don’t want to be told that to be poor is to be noble, poor folks do not see it that way. It may seem crass, but more abstract dialogue about increasing wealth and ownership would be much more successful.

“If Mayor Giuliani believes that what President Bush has done is good, and wants to embrace it and run a campaign for the Presidency saying, ‘I will give you four more years of what this president has given you,’ then he’s allowed to do that. He’ll never be elected President of the United States, but he’s allowed to do that.”

Why did John Edwards not disclose his Fortress salary until today? That’s three weeks of bad Iowa stories, a George S. grilling, and lots of other unnecessary guff? Just for $479K?

The Edwards campaign seems to me to make some silly amateur hour mistakes that you wouldn’t think would even be on the horizon of someone that ran for president a scant 3 years ago. And the problem is, so much of it is self-inflicted.

The argument you’re trying to make is that you’re more organized than Sen. Clinton, the most hard-charging campaign since the Bush ‘04 machine. Cowboy up, folks.