Posted on 12/07/2010 5:14:25 PM PST by Pinkbell
Elizabeth Edwards, the estranged wife of former Democratic North Carolina Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards died today, at the age of 61, after a grueling six year battle against cancer.
Edwards, it was announced yesterday, learned over the Thanksgiving holiday that her cancer had spread to her liver. Her doctors recently advised Edwards against further treatment and she returned home to be surrounded by her family as she passed.
Edwards faced not only cancer, but public humiliation when it was revealed that her husband carried on an affair while she was sick with campaign aide Rielle Hunter; an affair that ultimately resulted in Hunter's pregnancy. The Edwards separated earlier this year and were planning to divorce.
It has been reported that John Edwards was among his wife's bedside visitors in her dying days. If so, it is difficult to imagine what must have been going through his mind.
Does John Edwards regret cheating on his cancer stricken wife? Would he had been more, or less, likely to stray had his wife been healthy? How does he feel today as the mother of his children passes at a young age from a horrible disease?
Marriages of all sorts require work. No matter how deep the love, and no matter what the socio-economic status of the people involved, for two people to commit to each other for a lifetime, until death do them part, is the greatest commitment one can voluntarily make to another person. It's a different type of commitment than the one a parent makes to a child, in fact. There is nothing so great as a mother's love, it is said. In many ways, this makes the devotion and care that a parent demonstrates to their children easier, actually.
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We’d probably be absolutely furious to know what he’s REALLY thinking tonight.
John Edwards is below whale shit on the moral scale.....
I would like to think that Mr. Edwards is very sad tonight.
the MLK I have a dream speech comes to mind.
If he has a shred of anything resembling a soul, he will be haunted every day of his life with guilty thoughts.
RIP Elizabeth.
About where all of those insurance policies are? Edwards is a scumbag.
How to rehabilitate his image and political career.
Maybe he can start channeling her now.
How much longer till the arrest him?
Wonder if she ever regretted doing her part to cover up the Rielle Hunter affair and deceive the American people?
Wonder if she ever regretted doing her part to cover up the Rielle Hunter affair and deceive the American people?
Probably about the malpractice suit he is thinking of filing on behalf of the mother of most of his children.
To have read Game Change and the Politician is to think that the Breck girl is probably on the phone with Rielle tonight...or some other bimbo.
He is a narcissist of the highest order.
That being said, Elizabeth was no saint either. She was driven to be FLOTUS and wanted him as Pres. at all costs. She was not easy to live with, nor was he.
Hoping he has an awakening and comes around..but don’t count on it.
Wondering what their final conversation was about...
John’s thinking how to sue the doctors and how much money he beat the Feds out of by “having” her die before the first.
WTF, it’s still about him...
Momentarily he will ponder on what an “F” he is. But it won’t last long.
Who really cares about John Edwards? What about the children who no longer have any parents? John Edwards can’t really be considered a “Father” can he? How much did he care about them? His actions answer that. My heart pains for the innocents.
He is a complete scumbag. I’ll bet he’s thinking: “cool, if the divorce had gone through, I would have lost at least half my $hit.”
Not soon enough for me.
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