Posted on 05/06/2009 8:12:23 AM PDT by presidio9
ending poverty was a “moral issue” and the “cause of my life.
Let me fix this for Johnny Boy.....
Ending “John’s” poverty was a “moral issues” and the “cause of my life”.
......he insisted it was a one-night stand.......
He did not lie. The affair took place on the night before groundhog day.
Another example of the decline of NC
Stand? I’m guessing it was more horizontal than vertical.
If there is any justice this ambulance chaser will be looking out through bars!
I can see the point on Mrs. Edwards pepetuating a lie, but if she believed it was a one night stand she did not have the full story. I’d have kicked my husband to the curb publicly and left him to answer the questions, but that’s just me. We’d have to ask Jackie Kennedy and Hillary Clinton how they felt standing next and supporting their husbands when they knew they were cheaters. I suppose we’d hear that Kennedy and Clinton “were the best hope for our country, best men for the job, yada, yada...”
My only defense of Elizabeth would be that she was extremely vulnerable when her husband admitted the supposed one night affair. Her health was bad and she had to make a decision, and it may be one she regrets but given that she has limited time left with her children, I don’t know if admitting this mistake is high on her priority list. Perhaps she has said she’d make the same decision again in her book? I don’t know.
I have empathy that Elizabeth had to even make this decision, but even more I have sympathy that she is probably questioning everything her husband has ever “stood for” - as it is apparent he stood for nothing but himself. Of course this is speculation on my part.
I have always seen John Edwards for what he really is and I (like many others) have been proven correct - he is a self-centered, egotisitical, pompous, money grubbing ass that has betrayed not only his wife and kids but millions of supporters. That he was a trial lawyer is no accident.
He was the “product”, she was the “enabler”.
Sound familiar?
The “it’s for the children” card doesn’t play for Elizabth Edwards. She was the one who decided to leave them and go out campaigning for her husband even though she told us she was dying.
It’s all about the Benjamin’s!
I'm sorry she is sick but she has been right along with him through his ambulance chasing and lying in his campaign. She would have kept quiet about all of it if he had won. She's cut from the same cloth he is.
Don’t forget that Elizabeth is the person who tried to trash Dick Cheney’s daughter thinking it would cost Bush/Cheney the election when she told the world that his daughter was a lesbian.
She is no better than John Edwards. She is a nasty person!
Mrs. Edwards need to just shut up and stop dragging the dirty laundry out of the closet.
She’s making it much worse.
That is why I said empathy and sympathy, not understanding. I don’t condone the decisions she made, but I am putting myself in her shoes knowing what little I do about the actual circumstances.
I’ve never liked Elizabeth Edwards but I wish her peace in her last days.
What’s that?
What “last days”? She’s been “dying” since before the 2004 elections. This is starting to look a lot more like “surviving.”
Peace? She's going out on a book tour. She isn't even looking for peace for herself. (However, you do seem to be a kind person).
Even when the story broke, the media pretended it didn’t exist. So in what year did the media learn of the affair?
And how much effort did they make to keep Edwards viable in the primary to keep Hillary in a 3 way race for delegates?
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