Today John Edwards admitted he had an affair in 2006 with 44-year old Rielle Hunter.

Some will judge him harshly for it, some will not. All I can say is Democrats sure got lucky by not choosing him as our nominee this year - because if we had, the campaign would be over and John McCain would be choosing his Oval Office furniture.

And hopefully Barack Obama isn't lying when he says Michelle keeps him in line.

But while everyone obsesses over Edwards' past affair, what about John McCain's past affair - his affair with Cindy Lou Hensley, the pretty young heiress of one of the largest Budweiser distributors?

Of course McCain dumped his disfigured first wife for Cindy, and used her money to rise through the ranks of Republican politics - even as he showed his true feelings by calling her a c**t in front of 3 reporters.

Even Ronald and Nancy Reagan were shocked when McCain ran off with Cindy, yet the Corporate Media never mentions it. "Liberal media" my ass.

Of course there was one moment when the "liberal media" (a.k.a. the New York Times) suggested McCain was sleeping with a lobbyist - literally, not just figuratively. Republicans went ballistic, McCain denied the suggestion, and no one has ever raised the issue again. As Digby writes,

considering how everyone is excusing flogging this Edwards story on the basis of the fact that he lied to the press, I'm not sure it's in the country's best interest not to ask McCain about this again and talk to the women herself. What if it comes out that it was true after he's president? (That's one of the lines they keep trotting out about why it's so important to crucify Edwards.)

And while I'm on the topic of the media, let me bring up one of my pet peeves: what right does anyone in the media have to comment on some politician's affair without first disclosing whether or not they have ever had an affair?

All throughout Monicagate, it made me sick that at least half the pundits who were attacking Bill Clinton themselves had affairs, but they never had to disclose them.

Taking a cue from Bill Maher, I am announcing a new Rule: anyone in the media who criticizes a politician for having an affair must fully disclose how many affairs (s)he had.

Update 1: As always, Digby says it better:

Oh, and all the celebrity gasbags deserve to have all of their own private peccadilloes exposed to the world. They have helped create this absurd political test and they are the last people who could withstand the same scrutiny. These powerful people passing judgment on politicians for things they all do themselves is what makes the Village such phony provincial hellhole.