Did Elizabeth Edwards Know When She Said This?

leave the woman be…has she not been through enough?
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Look if Elizabeth real wants to believe that John was “seduced” and he didn’t run after this woman like a highschooler let her. I am sure this is the only way she can cope staying with him.
To put all the blame on the other woman is she is only fooling herself.

so what. what would you say? leave the woman alone.

Does any of this really matter, especially now? The affair ended the career of an otherwise good politician. Why are we talking about this private matter when we allowed the past administration to destroy this country during its eight year reign.
What I can’t believe is we’re discussing an old, tired story when the current financial crisis could bring the world to its knees; when over half a million people have lost their jobs in just the month of April. We need to move on to more important issues. http://worthanopinion/net
Jim Worth
Author, “Final Audit”

C’mon folks, we have way too many important issues to think about now. Who care what she knew and when she knew it? Is that helping Joe Blow keep his job and house? I think not. Stick to the important issues people. Give the Edwards a break. They have their own problems and we have ours.

Elizabeth Edwards has A LOT on her mind, you know, cheating husband, dying & leaving really young children behind. I can live with it if she were fuzzy on the details.
Don’t be an ass (and I say that as loyal viewer). Leave the woman alone (and I say THAT as a lifelong Republican).
Use your power and influence to focus on something where you can make a positive difference, not on a sex scandal with an obsolete politician.

so sad that she kept it quiet. what a jerk he has turned out to be, so sad. shows you just never know…..

Of course Mrs Edwards “knew”. Just like Hillary knew about Slick Willie’s proclivity for lusting after anything in a skirt & tight blouse. Let her peddle her book. All it proves is john edwards is a phony cad, just like bill clinton. You can always tell they are lying cause their lips are moving.

ridiculous amount of commercials!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think it’s mostly the Hillary supporters who think that this issue is important. Had Edwards not been in the primaries — his voters would most likely have voted for Hillary — Edwards and Hillary were pretty close on most issues. It could have tipped the scales in the democratic primary and eventually the whole election. This is one of those little events that may very well have had a big impact on history.

I lasted through 10 30-second commercials before bailing out — I was curious to see how many would run, but now I realize it’s huge friggin waste of my time. Thanks, George. I’ll never follow any of your tweet links, ever, ever, ever again!

am i the only one who thinks the news media are bending over backwards to protect john edwards by trashing his wife? how about the news media pointing the finger at themselves and asking the most important question…when did the news media get information about edwards’ affair and why did they wait to report it until after he was out of the presidential race?

This video is not working. Keeps stalling on the ads.

Its good to see all of you are completely perfect and incapable of making mistakes and hurting other people. I know none of you have ever done that. Should John Edwards be held accountable for what he did? Yes. Was what he did wrong? You bet. Was he right to run for president? No way. He dropped out, the election went on, case closed. This is really a personal matter between the Edwards’. Human nature is complex. Who knows why people do what they do. Who’s to say John Edwards isn’t truely remorseful for what happened. Let these people deal with their own dirty laundry themselves. Everyone is seeing somebody else, physically or emotionally. Fact of life. You’ve all done it in one way or another, don’t lie.

I will leave the woman alone if she keeps quiet about her family and the couple’s political life from now on. She can talk about her health and her fight against cancer but, by fooling ardent Democratic supporters and American people, neither she nor her husband deserves to be in the political spotlight any more.
In fact, she has yet to apologize to American people.
BTW, George, I am wondering when you are going to drop George Will from your Roundtable. He has caused a big controversy at Washington Post with his misinformation (or an outright lie?) about global warming. Now he is caught giving wrong information again at last Sunday’s Roundtable — see Washington Monthly’s “George Will Keeps Digging”. I enjoy quality analysis, conservative or liberal. This is what helps both our government and people make informed, sound decisions. However, George Will doesn’t seem interested in providing quality analysis. His ability to argue convincingly and forcefully just makes things worse for all of us.

Seriously. WHO CARES what she knew and when. Let this family deal with their issues by themselves. I’d say we can all be better people and we should start by not scrutinizing others. How can you be a better person today? Not “what did so and so do wrong?”

Sorry, but Mrs Edwards knew full well the implications once this story had gotten out yet she went along with her husbands deceitfulness. This was about power and how to get it at any cost. I know people feel bad for her as do I. Cancer is a terrible thing, but that doesn’t mean she’s blameless because she’s not. Not only that he’s still lying, that kid is his and she most likely going along with that lie too.

Look, people can call affairs private conduct, and for the most part they are….However, you cannot claim that a person deceiving the one person he has promised to love, honor and cherish doesn’t have relevance in the debate. It does. This guy is standing out there saying “trust me”. If your wife can’t trust you, then why should I???
Yes, things do happen in marriages that lead otherwise decent people to do bad things. The same holds true in politics — things happen. The question is, will you keep your integrity, your honor and your promises when those challenges arise??? An extramarital affair tells me a lot about what those answers will be.

I contributed money to both John Edward’s campaign runs. If I had know Elizabeth knew of the affair before his second run, I never would had contributed. How did either of them think they could keep it secret. You would think facing death you would just want to take care of your children. If he had not run the second time we may never had found out and his children would not have to be embarrassed.

Geez what some people won’t stoop to so that they can make a buck. I think both of the Edwards need to think about what kind of role model they are to their children. Both lied and are still lying re John being the father of that baby. So who would want to read a book of more lies? I don’t think either one of the Edwards are worth wasting time on.

The oh so compassionate Democrats are so protective of women, unless of course… they aren’t Democrats.

So, George is saying the timeline is off. “Days” can mean a week or so.
It is obvious that she did not yet know about the affair when this interview took place. Does George want kudos for having the last interview with Elizabeth before she found out? Or, is he saying that she didn’t find out until the National Enquirer broke the story that all the networks refused to air?
George, if you are being coy at inferring something by this article, please be more specific and say what you mean to say.

Poor, poor Puritanical and Innocent long suffering without sin Elizabeth Edwards makes me want to vomit!! She should be held accountable for lying to a nation of people who continued to contribute money to his campaign as a result of her campaigning on his behalf. She’s more pathetic than the rest of them put together, because she claims to be holier than thou and because she has this holier than all perspective! She makes me sick!

I think John Edwards is a terrible, awful human being for what he did to his wife and his children….and what he could have done to his party. However, I do not feel sorry for Mrs. Edwards. First, she has written a book about the events so her response to them is fair game. Second,it is almost like she is trying to rehabilitate him in some way. She says she thinks that the affair was a one night stand. Either that is unbelieveably naive (come on, the woman started working on his campaign after this “one night stand” and months later he was caught leaving her hotel room at 2:00am after he was there for at least a couple of hours) or she once again is trying to sell us a bill of goods.
This debate continues to be relevant because voters need to decide whether or not they want honorably people serving in public life of whether they are going to continue to tolerate liars b/c what they lied about was only “private conduct.”

Dear Sybilll, I sleep very very well, thank you. Besides, who knows, maybe Mrs. Purity Elizabeth is to blame (at least partly) for the affair. Sex is a part of life honey, and he wasn’t gettin any, regardless of the reason. People are only human. But, it’s okay for her to lie to a nation (THIS IS A HUGE DEAL!), and now she wants people to buy her book and sad story about how “she” was victimized while she calls an innocent child an “it” (the only truly innocent party in this tragic tale, and maybe her own kids). But, I’m sure that Mrs. Purity sleeps well in the nice comfy home her husband has provided. Look, we all suffer in different ways, and we will all die eventually, but that does not absolve anyone of thier sins and responsiblities no matter how much they suffer from denial. In her unreality, she can continue to play the victim to anyone who will pay enough to listen. She is not the only woman in the world to have been cheated on, and you can trust that she has long since gotten over it, she is now only making money off of her situation. It’s one thing to truly be a victim of cheating, or to have honestly made a mistake and have an affair, but she’s clearly milking it. This makes her lack of integrity worse??

First let me say, that I feel sorry for all of the children involved..and I hope Mrs. Edwards recovers…however, she is a nasty piece of work…she was the real brains behind that campaign..make no mistake. Remember when she brought up Liz Cheney’s being gay on national tv, saying she was so compassionate for the Cheney’s and indicated that they must be so ashamed…again, I repeat..she is a nasty piece of work….

I laugh at the people who write “leave Elizabeth alone, she has been through alot”. She wrote a freakin’ book! She is on a book tour! We forgot about her and her BreckGirl husband, but she keeps reminding us what a phony couple they were. A guy lecturing us on poverty asking $90,000 for a speech on poverty! Just go home, take care of your health and your children, divorce your herpes sore of a husband, use your law license to help others, but please stop asking us to respect your privacy when you keep talking about yourself for profit.

If you have an illness, you get a free pass on defrauded the American public, is that right? It is according to Democrats. So I guess if Hilter had cancer, then you would have to ‘leave him alone’ as well.

This is a bogus couple that ran a bogus campaign. JE swindled millions of dollars tricking foolish people sitting on a jury. The American people can be fooled and tricked so easily by these liberal democrats. The preach a false doomsday message(as if they care)(Al Gore and global warming, non-factory asbestos), then they try to make their subjects feel guilty, then it’s off to the bank to cash their checks. Stupid Americans!

Sociopaths and narcissists are attracted to political life. The American public should learn how to spot them early in the election process….we cannot depend on the media to help us. Apparently they are not psychologically sophisticated enough to make obvious distinctions.
The Sociopath Next Door should be required reading for all voters.

I am appalled that EE is making the rounds on TV, magazines, radio, etc to promote her book on “the affair”. Why isn’t she protecting her children who don’t need to go through this publicly?
It seems neither of these people put their children nor family first. The children need protection from these parents who parade all of this in the public. I feel really sorry for these children, the older one and the two younger ones- they don’t deserve to suffer any more.

I was a Field Organizer for Senator John Edwards during the Iowa Caucus. There I campaigned for the causes that Senator Edwards championed. He may be morally flawed like everyone else in the world but he was right about the issues and took up issues that other Democrats were afraid of. Poverty has been a lost word in the Democrats lexicon for years until Senator Edwards brought the issue to the forefront of the national debate. His run for president, forced Obama and Clinton to move to the left on the issue of the economy, health care, corporate interest and corporate greed, and the issues of lobbyist influence. I am very proud and thankful for Senator Edwards to champion these issues and forcing the other leading candidates to stake out issues that they would not have if he had not run. While he may have been destroyed politically, his mark on changing the debate on the issues did not. If I had to do the experience again, I would have.
By the way, Clinton and Edwards were not close on the issues before Iowa. It was not until after his exit did Senator Clinton take the more populist stance in attempt to capture his voters. He was way to the left of her on the issues and his supporters were in the group that wanted “change.” Exit polls of Edwards supporters showed that they identified Obama as their second choice preference by a good amount over Clinton. If he was not in the race, President Obama would have won Iowa by an even larger margin. Senator Clinton lost to Senator Obama fair and square. Her lost was predetermined by the stances she took and the campaign staff she surrounded herself with. Clinton supporters need not to look to Senator Edwards as a excuse for losing but to themselves for the campaign they run and the excellent campaign that Obama run.

Let me get this straight — John Edwards made millions being a slick trial lawyer who twisted words and manipulated juries, yet he is seduced, against his aw shucks we’re just normal folk character, by four little words, and it was his first affair — right. I have four words for Elizabeth Edwards – please stop your lying.

When one of the millions of women in America who are single handledly raising children, battling illnesses,and dealing with a cheating husband, who go to work every single day, writes a book about how to deal with life’s adversities, I will read it. I might even write the book myself. But I have no interest in reading a book written by a woman who has millions in the bank, lives with her husband in a 35,000 square foot home on 100 acres (that would be like me living on one end of the block and he on the other), whose husband cheats on her (and Elizabeth no one believes it was just one time, stop lying), who does not work, just sits back and smugly and spitefully in interviews tries to destroy the woman her husband slept with because he didn’t get it at home. Elizabeth stop looking at the other woman and look at yourself. If a man wants to cheat he will. And no little videographer is going to undo a slick trial lawyer with four little words. Please.