Posted on 08/08/2008 3:20:07 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Some months ago, while she was on tour, promoting her book, Saving Graces, I met and interviewed Elizabeth Edwards at a signing in New York City (see the interview below). At the time, John Edwards had not yet announced his 2008 presidential candidacy but the intention was in the air. As his wife spoke, her husband of 30 years watched her with pride and affection. They exchanged knowing looks and smiles. They conversed in the way of long time friends and lovers.
Yesterday, with her husband by her side, looking at her with pride and palpable affection, Elizabeth Edwards revealed with candor and grace that her breast cancer had recurred. Specifically, the cancer had traveled to her bone taking up residence on her right rib. Officially, Elizabeth Edwards now has Stage IV metastatic breast cancer which means her cancer is chronic, treatable but not curable. She’ll need treatment of one kind or another for the rest of her life.
Because helping the sick and showing them compassion is what Jesus would do.
Elizabeth Edwards knew of the affair and she kept the lie alive.
Hmmmm... And you feel she had some special obligation to share it with you personally?
Whom should she have told and why do you think she had an obligation to tell anyone anything? Is there anything she could have done that makes her worthy of your prayers?
Pray for Elizabeth.shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach AdonaiPray that she turns from being a foot soldier in the Democrat Party.
The political Party with the Platform to:
and that she accepts the forgiveness of Yah'shua for her public sins.
- kill babies mostly black babies
- promote sexual perversion
- steal from some and claim to give to others.
- destroy families
Seems Elizabeth was in on the thing the whole time and was a willing participant in the cover-up.
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.
They just renewed their vows a year ago too.
And their 31st anniversary was last week...
I wonder if the cheatskate took her to Wendy’s, or maybe things were already ‘frosty’.
And you believe that she knew it, based on what? John Edwards’ statement today? And why would you take that as gospel truth when he’s obviously been lying all along about all of this?
I don’t know that. It may have been the reason she had a relapse. It doesn’t matter. A prayer didn’t cost me a thing. If I reserved my prayers for only those who were blameless then I wouldn’t have anyone to pray for.
This part I think we can all take to heart and do well to remember, as we've all been hurt by someone in some way at some point in our lives:
"We can not let the value of our lives be measured by those who hurt us."
In fact, I copied it down as a reminder to myself. Thanks so much for writing it.
Elizabeth Edwards is in my prayers.
I feel sorry for her but I cannot get past how smarmy she was toward the Cheneys and their daughter’s lesbianism.
Elizabeth was a hard nosed liberal politico who is probably smarter than the silky pony she hitched her political cart too. Sorry for her, yes. Respect her - no. I am right on the the same plane as feeling sorry for Hillary when Monica’s blue dress turned up stained with her husbands semen.
I hope Elizabeth survives a long time to raise her children and fades out of poltical life. Her epitaph will at least be more graceful than that of her philandering husband.
It is just horrible. The stress this kind of thing causes could kill her. They have kids. God only knows maybe he thought she was going to die. I know Edwards is taking the heat he deserves but I can’t help wondering what kind of women cheats with a man whose wife is dying? I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that her cancer relapsed after she found out. Stress is a horrible trigger for medical ailments.
His affair did not end in 2006. The baby was born in February 2008. Do the math.
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.
You’re a sucker. She has the life she’s made for herself. How dare anyone feel sorry for her? She’s just another cheesy lawyer married to an even cheesier lawyer. What’s she’s suffering now is pure karma.
That changes things a bit but this coming out brings back all the stress. Maybe things are better now. I don’t know the whole story. Maybe I’m being too sentimental but it still didn’t cost me a dime. Edwards political aspirations are over now. He isn’t a Bill Clinton.
To my knowledge, she has not commented on this.
The truth is Elizabeth Edwards is a liar.
Yes, prayers to E;izabeth. And for her to gather strength to fight cancer.
Then you wrote a letter and posted it on a public forum suggesting that everyone should write her as well.
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