May 01 2009
Will the Edwards Just Go Away Already
The memoir of Elizabeth Edwards, cancer survivor and wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, hits bookstores May 12. “Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities,” is billed by publisher Broadway Books as “an unsentimental and ultimately inspirational meditation on the gifts we can find among life’s biggest challenges.”
One of those challenges was dealing with her husband’s admission of carrying on an affair. Elizabeth Edwards took the news hard; according to the New York Daily News, which has acquired an advance copy of the book, she writes:
“I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up.”
If I have to hear about John or Elizabeth Edwards again I am going to throw up too. Talk about being one of the most sleaziest political opportunist couples in America. John Edwards betrayed the people who worked relentlessly to try and get him elected and those who handed over money to aid him in his campaign. I don’t particularly feel bad for those people. If you were dumb enough to fall for Edwards’ rhetoric then you deserved to get bent over, but Edwards abused the trust and dedication of his followers and put his party’s opportunity at risk all for his own self-aggrandizement.
On top of that, I am sick and tired of his wife being painted as this poor, fragile victim. That woman knew about this affair and she decided to keep it under wraps anyway during the campaign. She was complicite in her husband’s infidelity towards her which I think makes her even worse than he. Oh, but that’s right, I forgot. We’re not supposed to express any ill feeling towards her. She has cancer.
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