Elizabeth Edwards’ ‘Anguish’ in Wake of Husband’s Affair

Hey Worse,
Obama was disrespectful to his own Grandma, and repudiated his pastor of twenty years. It all comes with the territory, a bunch of arrogant men. Isn’t it time for a change?

Paul, people on both sides of the aisle care, that’s who cares. He could have been the candidate! That was the intention for running, and his family headed out full-bore with this secret. Our society is not to the place where this is fully condoned, though we are forgetful (witness Bill Clinton). Democrats would have been sunk in the general election, even had he been VP. Republicans, ones who don’t like to see the downfall of Dems just because of who they are, care because it’s another one biting the dust who could have been an example of trustworthiness and charatyer in our gov’t.

Actually, let’s face it; John Edwards is a HOT BABE. I was surprised he hadn’t had an affair. Of course, he is a good man and held out a long time. He lost his son, thought he would lose his wife, very vulnerable stage in his life. Then add the fact that he has obviously been quite wholesome and in walks the female player ready to go fishin’. Women all over must have been throwing themselves at him. Sorry we have the hottest guys in politics on our side, the downfall is megaloads of temptation coming their way. However, Al Gore was a real hottie in his day (still is to me) and he has managed to remain “decent.” But then Al is a total type A. The media’s role, is something to be suspicious about, but Edwards was weak, not evil. He still stood for the people who needed someone to stand up for them in our society; that makes him AWESOME to many of us including Elizabeth who continued to promote him as a servant of the PEOPLE, that says a lot…..

The McCain story is old news. It has been reported, disected and debated for 25 years. Edwards on the other hand lied thru his teeth all the while asking us to believe him and nominate him to be president. I hope this was worth it to him. Now the feds are supposedly interested in why his campaign finance chief feels the need to support this woman with his “own” money and whether or not it came from campaign donations. I think this story and his lies are going to be around for a while. Poor Elisabeth this is how she has to live out her last days.

This scandal needs to be put to rest. Whoever has any compassion for Elisabeth Edwards? Let it go! Can you imagine what it is doing to her. Why? Should Elisabeth keep on being crucified! For the media to have something to write about! How cheap!

John is not a loser, just a fallible human-being like us all. Please, if there is a perfect being gracing this blog, PLEASE let me know. I will vote for you.

To bad he continues to lie to her.

WELL THIS IS NOT SURPRISING AT ALL. THE ETHICS OF OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICALS, SPORTS PLAYERS AND CELEBRITIES ARE HORRIBLE. AND THEY WONDER WHY THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IS IN BAD SHAPE–DAH, THINK ABOUT IT YOU POLITIANS, PLAYERS AND ACTORS. WHAT HEROS YOU ARE NOT!!!!!!!!

My prayers adn thoughts are with Elizabeth and the children, may Elizabeth find the comfort, strength and love to move beyond this betrayal, and have many blue skies days ahead for her. She has enough on her plate with the illness and should not have to deal with the antics of her husband and Reille Hunter, Elizabeth Edwards has always been a very classy lady and her determination and resilence during this time has been as classy as she has ever been. Elizabeth you are an admired and stron woman, my prayers are definitely with you!

I agree that in public Elizabeth Edwards comes across as a classy lady. After learning of her husbands cheap affair, I can understand Elizabeth holding on to her marriage and family. Afterall, that is all she has when her life is getting short.
I don’t agree that Elizabeth should have continued her support for her husband’s campaign. She should have put a stop to the campaign and not allowed the lie to be continued on to the American people. People who gave money, time, and sacrificed careers for Edwards. Elizabeth also spoke badly about Hillary during the campaign while hiding her own deceit and her husband’s lies. I wish Elizabeth well and a happy time with her children.

Get real people. Elizabeth Edwards aided and abetted the lie John Edwards tried to pawn on his party and supporters. Had he been nominated it would have been a disaster and Ms. Edwards is no idiot her medical condition n.w.s.
If the fire’s too hot they shouldn’t have gotten into the kitchen.
That’s politics.

My heart feels for Mrs. Edwards. What a strong woman and mother. Mrs. Edwards, you have all of our support. Do what you feel it best for you and your children.

The McCain stuff has been discussed for 25 years. Nothing new.
Edwards…follow the money. If money from his campaign has been diverted as hush monet someone will go to jail.
This story is just beginning. Follow the money.

John McCain and Edward affairs are not equal in my mind and I may be wrong. But, John McCain was a POW for 5 ½ years with fractures in his right leg and both arms. He received minimal care and was kept in wretched conditions based on US report. I cannot think about all the other daily things (tortures, solitary, sexual and brutality) that they did to him while in prison. Even Nelson Mandela cheated and left his wife after he was released from prison. Nelson Mandela was no longer the person his wife once knew. McCain admitted that being a prisoner of war had changed him and he was not the same man that his wife knew. I would like to see any of us coming out of that type of situation the same. How can he and other POW preserve their sanity? They should be respected and it is understandable that each POW can out a different person than their family once knew them to be. Our soldiers have a lot of trouble after coming home from war, yet alone POW for 51/2 years. Maybe Edwards was under too much pressure with his wife illness and needed outlets to handle it.

Doesn’t stress exacerbate or bring on cancer? John Edwards will be responsible for his wife’s demise, whether it be sooner, or blessedly, later. He is beyond scum. Why do these guys always cheat with whores who cannot hold a candle to their accomplished, smart, intelligent and loyal wives? Hopefully, he’ll suffer with this guilty forever.
I’m so disgusted. And to think my husband and I were going to vote for this jerk. He has done an amazing amount of damage to the party.

Don’t feel sorry from him. There’s plenty of ambulances left to chase.

When you see how flawed our would-be leaders are, we need to remember that it is at our own peril to give more and more of our freedoms away to politicians and the people they bring with them into our government. Let’s all wake up—let’s continue to push for smaller and less powerful government and start taking our own destinies into our own hands. Just think how much more power we would have if it were not for high taxes and the the endless numbers of rules and regulations that government and its bureaucrats heap upon us. Shed the repression!!

why you against the man. Edward is a good man. He done a terrible mistake which may stick with for life but he human, he is a good man. This woman is opportunist, she is Jezebell. She knew what she was doing and why she did it.
MEN BE ON QUARD AGAINSST THESE KINDS OF WOMEN. She carless about the hurt she caused

If I were her I’d take a gun and shot the SOB! Why not? She is going to pass anyway and then the attention would be directed at his funeral!
This is not a good example for the children to see their father get by with this!!! How will they ever trust anyone?

Edwards is a one-term Senator. See what happens wehen you don’t know that much about someone. We know even less about Obama.

John Edwards should fall on this knees and pray for forgivness. Elizabeth is going through emotional aas well as physical issues with cancer. She doesn’t need this. I believe John is repentful, but only because he got caught, just like Clinton. He needs to get counceling and look within.

Either Irma is actually John Edwards (Hot babe????) or she has been drinking the koolaid toooooo long.
A person’s looks go far beyond the physical features. John Edwards is the MOST insincere human I have ever had the displeasure to look upon. He could look like Adonis – and his actions (always saying just the right thing and not meaning it, sleezy behavior) would negate that. I wouldn’t trust him alone with my pets – let alone want him for president.

I can forgive Elizabeth for being weak. Cancer will do that to you. However, I can’t forgive her for being dishonest. If she knew John was lying to the press, then she knew what that meant if he received the nomination. She should have forced John to tell the truth or she should have told the truth herself. She did plenty of interviews in her own right. If you are going to lead people, you cannot hide behind the “I am just a regular person” line of argument. If you want to be a regular person, then get paid like a regular person, get jerked around and manipulated like a regular person, and get ignored like a regular person. If you want to lead, then lead by example. John and Elizabeth want to make this seem like a momentary weakness on John’s part, but this appears to be something far more sinister. John Edwards put way too much time and effort into his affair with Hunter. This is not a smudge on his character. This is a great big crack right down the middle of who he is and claims to be. John didn’t just cheat. He cheated on his deathly ill wife. He was a mature man, not a crazy mixed up kid. He lied when he got caught. He tried to minimize the damage and get out of trouble instead of admitting fully what he did and trying to make it right. This event is not “happening” to the Edwards. John Edwards is making this happen. Sadly, Elizabeth can’t find the strength to stand up for herself and her kids.

I doubt that we will ever know the complete truth about what happened, nor should we, I think. But I know enough to say that I am completely heartsick. Not that Edwards is a cheating fool who did that to his wife, sick or not. Nor that Elizabeth has chosen to stay with him. That is her decision to make. I am heartsick because I wanted so badly to see Edwards as President.
That he would think that no one would find out about an affair in this age of blogs and mass media is simply pathetic. Is he not living in 2008?
I wish that, rather than doing “strikingly less” campaigning than in 2004 when the National Enquirer started making noise, Elizabeth would have stepped forward and told the truth. Or, earlier than that, stopped the campaign before it started.
I don’t even know what to think about this anymore.

COWARDS!
American citizens need courageous media we can report to when a huge controversy comes up, but if they are too scared to stick their necks out, look at the fallout that can occur. Because of them- we could have had a v.p. Edwards and poss. eventually a president Edwards! Because of their cowardice- a lot of people wasted their time supporting him, a baby was born that shouldn’t have been, money was taken from the American voters to support his campaign, and Elizabeth Edwards’ pain was stretched to an unfathomable limit…and Reille’s ego got to go on a long joy ride.
Courage prevents these things. Come on U.S.A. Let’s hear it for the truth tellers! Let’s hear it for the Charlotte Observer!

Mc Cain an Edwards situations are very similar, and say a lot about the caracter of the person. Thanks God Edwards is out of the race! But mac Cain is hanging there and doesn’t matter if the cheating was 30 years ago, his first wive still is suffering and remember how she was left out because she wasn’t pretty enough any more! Bit Mac CAin doesn’t like when people make coments about his paealitic arm or the shoulder and posture problems!! haha He still wants to be a Dandy Married to a Barbie!!

I think Elizabeth should come out and support Hillary since her disgraced husband endorsed BO. It might make a difference at the convention. She has the right to make her own pick regardless of John’s now dubious endorsement at the final stages of the primaries. Does it matter? Probably not but it does make the “smell” test where John’s endorsement does not. I think so. It would lead alot of people to question the endorsements that John and others made on behalf of BO. Perhaps I am making the same comment that others are making. I didn’t have time to wander through the minefield of this discussion. So Elizabeth could still make a difference to democrates. What would you do in her condition and with her legacy now in ruins. What do her children think in the future that daddy’s endorsement of BO was the only voice in the family and he was sleeping around behind mommy? What kind of message to children and young women is that?

I would like to believe he is remorseful. However, I believe he is just remorseful he got caught and he is exposed. He probably promised his wife he would have no more contact with her, yet he did.

Honor Elizabeth by allowing John Edwards to work his butt off for the public good. John Edwards affair is a human weakness – sadly he is in the majority. John McCain had several affairs while married and got involved with Cindy while still married to his first wife. You can’t help who you fall in love with and many of us have been hurt by infidelity. Mr. Edwards is intelligent and offering his services to the public. Let him serve the public and produce effective results that he is capable of, experienced, and educated for. Elizabeth even confirms this man can do the country a lot of good. George Bush is a former alcoholic,drug user and not too smart. Edwards has much to offer. Make him prove his value.

John Edwards talked about Dad’s mill,
While sleeping with a chick off the pill,
He lied and fibbed to the MS press,
And, awoke early to preen and dress.
His wife, Elizabeth, knew the lie in 2006,
But supported John in Iowa while sick,
They stole Hillary’s honest votes daily,
And laughed on cue, and hiding Rielle.
Now John’s betrayal is common news,
And Fred Baron has money to lose,
Rielle, now nursing, has jetted away,
Even ABC and CNN have joined the fray!
John’s affair has hurt his poor kids,
More than Clinton’s cigars ever did,
A sordid tale that some call a crock,
The only winner, a loser named Barack!

Belle – The difference is that John McCain didn’t lie to the press about the fact that he was still technically married to his first wife when he began seeing Cindy – he, Cindy and McCain’s ex-wife have given many interviews about the situation, it’s not the same as the Edwards affair. Edwards’ career is not over – voters tend to be very forgiving when it comes to things like infidelity, even alcohol use, it’s liars that voters generally don’t approve of.

I am sure that this press spotlight and all of the cruel remarks (such as some posted here) have done nothing whatever to lessen the anguish. I think it must be the weak, insecure and impotent people who enjoy bashing those suffering from terminal illness.

WHY in the world would any rational person try to compare McCain’s cheating past to that of Edwards???
Yeah….I would hope that most ADULTS would correct a child if he/she said, “but so and so did it too”. My mom would say, “if your friends jumped off of a bridge would you follow them?” Right after popping me in the mouth.
GROW-UP people.
(However, there would be NO REASON to even go there with any form of comparisons if there weren’t so MANY conservative HYPOCRITES!!)
What sane person would sit on Fox “news” and try to use cheating on a sick wife is worst that a healthy one? The faux compasion for Edward’s illness is clear or else they would give her and even Mrs. Craig and Mrs. Hagee space to come to terms with the transgressions against their vows. (It seems as if the institution of marriage is being DESTROYED from within but some would blame same sex unions.)
So, before some of you are so quick to kick Edwards under the bus and try use his personal life against him like the Bill Clinton witch hunt….Do yourself a favor and APPLY the SAME STANDARDS to people like McCain, Craig, Bush, Newt and all of those snake in the grass Republicans. (They ARE CONSISTENT when it comes to DOUBLE STANDARDS.)
(Maybe the best thing is to let he who has not sinned throw the first stone)
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Andrew Young of the John Edwards story: The arrests for worthless checks, DWI, burglary, criminal mischief, the federal tax lien
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Edwards isn’t the nominee. Obama is. And Obama did NOT cheat on his wife. But John McCain ‘MARRIED HIS MISTRESS!’.
I do not want a Married Mistress for my first Lady. That is DISTASTEFUL and DISRESPECTFUL of the position of the ‘FIRST LADY’!

I am with you loving Grandma. Both Edwards and Mccain are disgusting behavior. I found McCain’s life has all the elements of Edwards, infidelity, hurt, and money. I found even more disgusting Mcain’s applying for a marriage license before he had a final divorce. At least he or Cindy one are paying the first wife medical expenses for life. I am sure the southern Baptists must be real proud of both of them.

Oh,and by the way, what else remained for Mrs. Edwards to do? It is not very practical, to enter divorce proceedings and to sue for child custody knowing that your days are limited. The best any mother can do under the circumstances is hope to protect her children by trying to get her husband back on track… Saying that, how such an approach can extend to standing by, listening to, and supporting all his hypocritical B.S. is beyond me.
It will be easy toninte to say a prayer for her and her children, but a little more difficult to say one for her dumb-horse’s-ass husband.

I see ABC has decided to not report the latest news that Edwards paid his mistress with campaign funds. The story is everywhere but ABC. And the NY Times denies they knew about Edwards’ mistress and that is why they never reported on it. America’s media is corrupt.

I would hardly call the comments posted as gossip. The news is out Bemused. The nation has a right to have an opinion about a man that asked for our trust and could have been our president. The reason those in power no longer feel obligated to live a better life is because they are counting on us to instantly forgive them and just let them back into the fold. We no longer hold those looking to lead our great country the highest standard possible for any human being. I could care less how the Edwards family works this out. What I care about is that they both lied for a variety of reasons none that satisfy me as a voter. They threw all of us under the bus.

He is a glib, smooth, disgusting liar!
Thank God this came out.
I pray for Elizabeth to have the strength to deal with this (in a better way). I also pray for her to see the light…the real truth about the complete lack of a moral compass of her husband.
This guy is the lowest of the low.
Elizabeth needs to dump him, as quickly as possible & make the best financial deal she can make for herself and her kids. She also needs to protect her kids from this completely amoral, selfish and dangerously narcissistic creep!
Watching this guy makes my stomach turn.
Disgusting!!

What does John see in Rielle? She is obviously white trash. Love those tacky head bands! She also seems like a wacko with all the New Age hippy stuff. Was she really worth throwing away his entire political career? Has she never heard of the Pill? Mrs. Edwards is much better looking. She also easily outclasses the hippy skank by a mile!

Elizabeth my heart is broken for you and John.I am so suprized at what he has done.I loved you both and supported you 100% I thought he was a good christine and family man. I still love you

I’m just so sorry. A true Greek-type tragedy for a good family and for the country, too. I wish the best for John and Elizabeth Edwards and their children, that for the rest of their lives they may feel love from the world around them, to help them in their repentance and healing. May God be with them.

All this is well and good but that does not excuse her from not stopping her husband from entering the presidential race and actively campaigning for him.
What would have happened if he had gotten the nomination and the information about his affair had come out? McCain would have easily won the election in November.
May be her ambition to become a first lady outweighed her obligation to her party and the nation!

Apparently, the Daily News got an advance copy of Elizabeth Edwards’ book. I’d do more than vomit.

To those who make bad comments about Elizabeth; YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE NOT BEEN MARRIED TO A CHEATING, LYING MAN! You have no idea the pain they cause and how much you want to speak out about the pain when everyone looks down on you for your husbands infidelity. HOW DARE YOU!!!! I know first hand because when I found out about my husbands affair I didn’t want to get out of the shower but to instead stay in that water and use a bottle of the scum remover until it was gone!!!! It not just the infidelity it is about who you are as a person, yes, but you still try to make the best of a bad relationship. NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE!!! Women are expected to stand by their men, but men are expected to stab the wife in the back when they have an affair and leave them with nothing!!! WHO CAME UP WITH THIS DOUBLE STANDARD??? So, she is the bad person for speaking out? What the H___L is wrong with society that they can’t have a little respect for a woman who tried to keep her marriage afloat and tried to move on when in reality SHE SHOULD HAVE KICKED HIM TO THE CURB AND TOOK HIS CHANCES AWAY FROM HIM!!! She earned my respect!!! My twins weren’t even 1yr old when I found out! I am a happier person for leaving him and better off!!! As she will see she is too!!!

My own charming, intelligent and seemingly loving husband is a lot like John Edwards. I’ve come to realize that both his job and me are a “cover” for him. We help him project a public image of trustworthiness and caring, but really he lacks empathy and acts in very cruel and manipulative ways. I just found out he was having an affair…with a woman who he had so completely lied to that she did not know he was married. He has spun an extraordinary web of lies. The truth is still coming out in “installments”. Just like Elizabeth, I participated in his charade and kept his secret because I did not know how extensive the lies and cheating were. I still don’t really know.
My perspective is that Edwards is a similar kind of person. The charm is a veneer and below it is deeply selfish person without empathy. At least Elizabeth knows his true character now and won’t (hopefully) be fooled into thinking it was a one time mistake or that he has changed. If she chooses to stay with him, and given her health it would be reasonable to do so, she won’t be surprised now by any new revelations or other things he’ll do. I feel so badly for her…and I think John Edwards is scum. Charming, articulate, handsome scum.

Only Elizabeth and John know whether staying with each other is / was the best decision. If she decides to go on her own, rediscover her identity, and empower herself,