Excuse me? You mean you’re angry at the cheated on spouse for not trotting her private life for your scrutiny? Dude, you got some cojones there. I mean, how dare she not make public her humiliation? How dare she not play her marriage drama out in public for us to watch, and for Rush to comment on? What was she thinking?
Oh, get over yourselves.
It was not Mrs. Edwards job to inform us of her husband’s affair for a couple of reasons.
- It’s none of our damn business.
- She chose what was best for her and her family over what was best for the rest, because the rest don’t get a vote (see reason 1).
If you expected any differently, I got a nice, if slightly used bridge I can sell you, cheap.
And what do the rest get out of this whole mess? Let’s see, we have lost a articulate and passionate public advocate for the little guy at a time when the nation is deciding it’s fate for the next 4 or 8 years. We have lost an articulate and passionate public advocate for better health care, at a time when the nation’s health care system is going down the crapper. Gee, I feel better. Isn’t the game of Morals Gotcha fun?
Oh, don’t get me wrong, John Edwards screwed up, royally. If I ever get a chance to whack that man upside the head and scream “What were you thinking?!”, I will. But his “crime” had nothing to do with us, and neither did Elizabeth’s silence. She owes us nothing.
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She knew that it was out there waiting to emerge in the vetting, yet she allowed us to waste time and a LOT of money on him in the primary. That was a disservice to us all.
She could have done it exactly the way it played out in the last month only it would have been the right time to do it BEFORE wasting all that energy.
Otherwise, I would be with you all the way. Once you reach a certain level of importance in the political and public discourse, you start to have duties to the people who are behind you, not just to your and your family's interests.
And if the Clinton situation is any indication, the jury is in, and it is the whole family running when one of them runs.
Their goal of telling the story of the two Americas needed more time. As (someone whose name I cannot remember) said on Democracy Now last night, the real scandal is the 37 million people living in poverty. Not to mention the millions more who are not at poverty-level, but are without health insurance.
But this is clearly a red herring--a story about people's unhappiness with the (wronged!) wife of a former candidate, thrown out there on the same day as some extremely embarrassing news about the presumptive Republican nominee's new running mate. This story should be ignored.