Posted on 08/26/2008 7:39:44 AM PDT by george76
Two weeks after a devastating revelation sent her husband into political exile, Elizabeth Edwards isn't getting the steady sympathy usually afforded to a woman scorned.
Instead, she's faced criticism from dedicated Democrats who think she was too willing to keep the affair a secret to help John Edwards' political ambitions, as well as her own.
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Yet another example of the liberal double-standard.
Most of these complaining probably had no problem with Hillary putting up with her husband’s philandering.
For God’s sake, leave her alone. She’s dying of cancer and has a lot of reasons to be heartbroken. Wonderful that those in her husbands own party are being so ‘compassionate’.
The Democrat dip-shiites really need to leave Ms. Edwards alone.
How she decides to deal with her husbands philandering is HER business.
It is HE who did wrong, and HE who should be criticized. But it looks to me like they are trying to deflect some of the blame off their fair-haired boy.
Ms. Edwards is probably just glad that it was a WOMAN he had the affair with.
I suspect it's more the idea that had she not kept silent, it may have come out sooner; and not as a distraction just before their glorious convention. It's self interest at play here.
I bet you're the "glass is half full" kind of guy.... :)
I understand the cancer thing, but what bothers me is that they both say they knew about the affair in 2006, he ended it and they both reconciled with God, and put it behind them. If that's the case, why was he in the hotel with her for five hours about a month ago? Personally, I think they both got together, made up the affair resolution story so he could save political face. Obviously, I could be wrong, but that's what I see right now.
for heaven’s sake......leave the poor woman alone.
I find it very hypocritical that Mrs. Edwards is considered some type of healthcare reformist when she lives in a home built on her husbands destruction of health care practices throughout North Carolina.
Example:
“A Globe review of Edwards’ career from the mid-1980s through 1997 reveals that he was more than just a practitioner of medical malpractice law. He was one of its most prominent specialists, stretching the reach of the law for nearly two decades. But he also came to personify some of the alleged excesses that reformers have sought to curb.”
One of his most famous cases involved Jennifer Campbell, who was born with cerebral palsy, and whom he virtually channeled during a summation that resulted in a $6.5M damage award, a portion of which was ultimately set aside. In the summation, which has become “legendary,” Edwards mesmerized the jury:
“I have to tell you right now — I didn’t plan to talk about this — right now I feel her, I feel her presence,” he said in his record-setting 1985 lawsuit on behalf of Jennifer Campbell, born brain-damaged after being deprived of oxygen during labor. “She’s inside me and she’s talking to you. . . . And this is what she says to you. She says, `I don’t ask for your pity. What I ask for is your strength. And I don’t ask for your sympathy, but I do ask for your courage.’ “
The biggest mistake in Liz’s life was that her father did not fill John Edward’s britches with buckshot the first time the weasel tried to date his daughter.
"Lastly, who can't feel sorry for John Edwards, until a few days ago the likely Vice Presidential nominee, now officially the slimiest putz humanity has ever barfed up. Too bad his little indiscretion surfaced, as this impeccably-groomed fungus embodies the true character of some of our most notable Democrat politicians, and would have been perfectly suited for a high position in a Democrat administration."
What she needed to tell John was “I’m sick again and you’ve poisoned your chance of election with infidelity. Stay home and take care of me or I go public.”
“for heaven’s sake......leave the poor woman alone.”
Bingo, let’s have some objectivity here. Sympathy for his wife is the main reason everyone is mad at him. Now they turn on her because she sides with her family and not the mob. It’s very much like the Greta/CourtTV villain of the week.
Geez, she is fighting a battle for her life. I am surprised she has any strength. Cancer can zap everything out of you.
i can’t understand why that sob (her husband) wasn’t taking the time with his wife to celebrate her remission “together” instead of doing it with his girlfriend.
that time of their lives, john should have been making the best of the “good time”
what a jerk
Those people criticizing Ms. Edwards for not pulling the plug on her husband’s political career have no love in their hearts for the trials and tribulations of political wives.
They have entirely too much time on their hands to play political blame games.
Many women don’t care as long as they have the checkbook, if it’s a large enough. Are if it is all about power, ie, Hillary.
Sick or scorned, it doesn't matter to me. She's still a bi+ch. (I remember how she treated her neighbor that she didn't even know)
RATs turning on their own? Pretty strange coming from the party of the enablers. Other possible reasons for the MSM to adopt this unheard of story line: sympathy play for Liz, eat their own to divert attention away from the PUMA fiasco, or guilt by association: which other spouse let her hubby get away with sexual misconduct that hurt the party? I’m thinking the last one is the real reason behind the story.
I couldn’t agree more. Let the woman alone to grieve in privacy. It’s bad enough she has such an empty, unfaithful excuse of a man for a husband.
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