Minute 16...
“Of the 2008 contest, she reveals perhaps more than she quite realizes by telling us that John Edwards confessed his infidelity to her in late 2006, after he had announced his candidacy but before the campaign had got under way. If I were Hillary Clinton reading this rather throwaway admission, I might find myself whistling and growling a bit. After all, the then-presumptive nominee had more or less succeeded in living down her own erring husband by the time of the Iowa caucuses. And she might have ridden the punch of an Obama victory in Iowa, and come back swinging. But she placed third in Iowa, behind John Edwards, and many good judges think she never quite recovered from that. So Edwards’s last hurrah has a place of its own in American history.
And all through that hurrah, both Edwardses were living with the knowledge that a third party could at any moment gravely embarrass them. It must have required some unusual nerve for Elizabeth, by then quite a darling of the Democratic rank and file, to go on giving her fighting speeches and fund-raising appeals in between sessions of chemotherapy and acute marital misgiving. She says that she believed the affair to have been a one-off or a one-night stand, but nowhere else in the book or in her public record does she evince the kind of naïveté or credulity that would be required for this to be really what she thought. She is quite entitled not to “deal with” the possibility that the affair also led to the birth of a child”
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And that’s why neither of the Edwardses will ever be forgiven by the dem establishment. Edwards knew he had this hanging over him and would have to break eventually, but he hung in long enough to sink Hillary and Elizabeth played along.
i have some sympathy for her because of the cancer. i have NO sympathy for her for what john did to her with his girl friend. for years elizabeth lived well due to the immoral income of her ambulance chasing dirtbag lawyer husband (redundancy noted). either she knew what he was doing was wrong but liked the money too much or she is as amoral as he is, either way she lived well from his “earnings.” no different than the wife of a mob boss or the current first female, who ain’t no lady.
Every time I read a ‘tug at your heartstrings’ piece on Elizabeth Edwards, I can’t help but remember the elitist putdown she made about her next door neighbor, who she described as a “rabid Republican” who owned...shudder, shock...guns! That pretty much punctured the ‘poor Elizabeth’ balloon for me.
Wow, does she look BAD. I understand the cancer and chemo and all, but geez. She looks so old. She looks 80 years old.
Elizabeth Edwards is not a nice person at all. This was evident during the campaign. I’m sorry she has a terrible disease that I wouldn’t want anyone to have, but she is still a mean piece of work.
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Why would she use this occasion to reveal that her father (or so her mother believes) was unfaithful to her mother? Is she trying to torture her children? Because revelations like that live way longer than the people who make them.
Why would she use this occasion to reveal that her father (or so her mother believes) was unfaithful to her mother? Is she trying to torture her children? Because revelations like that live way longer than the people who make them.
No actual barf alert; save for the pathetic presentation of 'Elizabeth's intellectual credentials'. Does not mention her capacity for deception; her penchant for lying and making a fool out or every citizen who 'so trusted' both her and her lying and disgusting; money-power driven, husband.
Posers; both of them. And what a waste of classical intellect - if in fact it exists. True or not; it remains easy to imagine that this too; is a figment of desperate imagination; whether 'Elizabeth's; or; the writer here.
[Have wonderful and great; and intelligent friends; and none of them; not even the Phi Beta Kappas; carries Sophocles on their sleeve. Pulllllezzzze! She sounds like she is describing an 'Elizabeth' from some eighteenth century 'salon' as found in a Jane Austin novel.
From what most of us have seen of Elizabeth Edwards is a study of 'Liberal crass'; and her 'quotes' do confirm at least that talent extraordinaire. . .
It must be terrible having to live with a woman like her.
I can almost forgive the Silky Pony, considering his wife.
She knew John was a slimeball when she married, but she also knew he was going to “go places”, so she went along for the ride.
If it’s any consolation, I think John Edwards is a pain, too.
The Edwards are white trash with a big bank account, nothing more, nothing less. Good riddance. Just like Teddy. Hopefully, the taxpayers in NC won’t have to pay for a state funeral after she dies from her future brain mets.