Elizabeth Edwards

May 14, 2009 By Fausta

Rielle Hunter, the new Lord Valdemort

Elizabeth Edwards, fully embarking in her life’s mission to rehabilitate the sorry excuse for a man she’s married to, insists that Reille Hunter’s name not be brought up:
Edwards to Interviewers: Don’t Say That Name

Drake said Edwards’s restriction isn’t motivated by “anger” toward Hunter, but by a desire not to see Hunter profit from the affair. Noting that other notorious figures — such as Ashley Dupré, the call girl who slept with then-New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer — have cashed in on their media attention, Drake said Edwards “doesn’t want to contribute to putting this woman in the spotlight. She feels that, to the extent the media shines attention on people like this, that we encourage this kind of behavior. She doesn’t want to reward bad behavior.”

Plweeez.

Has Rielle Hunter been doing the Larry King-Oprah rounds?

By “this kind of behavior” I assume Elizabeth means committing adultery with a married man, or perhaps getting pregnant from an adulterous married man. Which begs the question, who’s now encouraging the cheating, lying SOB who coudln’t keep his zipper closed while his wife was undergoing chemotherapy AND he was running for the highest office in the land?

And by the way
Ben Smith notices that the WaPo mentions Hunter nine times in their article. Good for them.

May 11, 2009 By Fausta

Kaus on Elizabeth Edwards’s reality problem

Elizabeth Edwards’ Reality Problem

When Oprah remarks that hmm, she doesn’t know a lot of men who would run off to a hotel somewhere in the middle of the night to hold a baby that wasn’t theirs, she repeats her husband’s lie – or maybe he’d repeated hers: “Golly, then you don’t know that many politicians. We do it all the time. Holding babies is what we do.”

I wouldn’t pay much attention to Elizabeth or John Edwards, except that this “tell-all” book and accompanying publicity is a means for Elizabeth to do one more (last?) attempt at rehabilitating John.

Jim Geraghty reminds us that

We have a woman who urged the nation to vote for her spouse in part because she vouched for what a wonderful husband he was.

After his career tanked because of his own evil acts, she’s trying to bring him back. That way she establishes her legacy as the forgiving one, and shows him as worthy of it.

Disgusting.

May 6, 2009 By Fausta

“She had put so many quarters in the shiny slot machine of their mutual ambition. It was hard to walk away.”

Live long enough, and agree with Maureen Dowd, who rips the Elizabeth Edwards book up one side and down the other,

John Edwards’s political career is over, and he’s being investigated by the feds about whether he used campaign funds to underwrite his affair. Nobody — except Rielle — has any interest in hearing from him again. Americans would have been relieved if the last we heard of him was that cringe-inducing “Nightline” interview last year, when he made the argument that he was a helpless narcissist and that he hit on Rielle when Elizabeth’s cancer was in remission.

But now Saint Elizabeth has dragged him back into the public square for a flogging on “Oprah” and in Time and at bookstores near you. The book is billed as helping people “facing life’s adversities” and offering an “inspirational meditation on the gifts we can find among life’s biggest challenges.”

But it’s just a gratuitous peek into their lives, and one that exposes her kids, by peddling more dregs about their personal family life in a book, and exposes the ex-girlfriend who’s now trying to raise the baby girl, a dead ringer for John Edwards, in South Orange, N.J.

Today the NYT has the obligatory “Democrat wee wifey” photo: Like Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. McGreevey, and Mrs. Spitzer, there is Elizabeth, standing by her man, who looks over her shoulder:

As I said yesterday about Elizabeth, Lord knows she needs all the support and compassion she can get. Unfortunately she won’t be finding any from me.

Drop the cheating SOB, Liz. And stop dragging your kids to the photo-ops while you’re at it.

UPDATE
Jules found the Philosophical poser of the day.

May 5, 2009 By Fausta

The honorable thing

Elizabeth Edwards wanted her husband to do the honorable thing:

I wanted him to drop out of the race, protect our family from this woman, from his act.

There’s nothing like a severe illness to show who really loves you “for better or for worse.”

I know two women whose husbands have left them when the women developed serious illnesses.

I know a woman who left when her husband was undergoing chemotherapy.

Marriage can be a comfort in troubled times, but it can also be truly a burden. Sometimes a marriage can survive the tremendous strain of an illness like cancer. Many marriages can’t. There are thousands of reasons why. I fully understand, respect and support why one of the three people I just mentioned had to leave their spouse. That person did the honorable thing.

However, John Edwards is a vile little man who deserves only the derision and contempt of all. Here’s a man [and I use the term loosely] who not only lies and cheats on his wife who is undergoing chemotherapy for terminal cancer, but also starts a “second family” with another woman while running for the highest elected office in the land. Every step of the way, he lied. To ad further insult to injury, Elizabeth Edwards was driving the shared mission of her husband’s campaign all the while.

Narcissistic villain and two bit charlatan are the words that come to mind.

John Edwards’s lack of ethics is only matched by his arrogance. Federal investigators are looking into his campaign payments to his mistress. Anyone looking for his conscience would probably find a void.

Now Elizabeth Edwards has written a book. It’s a free country, and she has every right to, and to talk to Oprah and everybody else she feels like.

Lord knows she needs all the support and compassion she can get.