I can’t blame her for supporting her husband. Now it is another thing to know during the campaign and ignore it but these kind of things are complicated. Most wives don’t want to see that their husbands are cheating especially if they think things are going well and they have kids. I don’t have the ability to crawl into Elizabeth Edward’s mind. I just offered her a bit of charity that didn’t cost me a dime.
It seems not long ago people were bawling their eyes out over Senator Ted Kennedy. The man who ushered in the fall of Saigon by cutting military funding which led to the red tide engulfing Southeast Asia. If we can pray for a man who helped set off a series of events that led to millions dieing and or being tortured then I can offer up a prayer for a supportive wife who has cancer. I don’t like her politics and I don’t like her party but I don’t want her to die because her jerk of a husband cheated on her.
Like I said—you are charitable than I am, and I admire that.
It is hard for me to be charitable to people that are lying to me, and who see no problem in doing so. Remember, Mr. Two Americas was putting himself up as a moral expert on America’s ills, when he was already a part of the problem.
If he had fully admitted to what he did without all the qualifiers, I might be tempted to be more willing to feel sorry. As it is, his admission has a host of denials attached to it, making it superficial and meaningless. Sort of like himself.
And for the record, let it be known that I never have shed a tear for The Swimmer, for the exact reason you mentioned and much, much more.
And I never will.