SubscribeMrs. Edwards Slammed For Her Cover-up
From an outraged Associated Press:
Edwards’ wife criticized for silence on affair
By MIKE BAKER
Aug 26
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two weeks after a devastating revelation sent her husband into political exile, Elizabeth Edwards isn’t getting the steady sympathy usually afforded to a woman scorned.
Instead, she’s faced criticism from dedicated Democrats who think she was too willing to keep the affair a secret to help John Edwards’ political ambitions, as well as her own.
At a time when she was expected to hold a prominent role in pushing an agenda of improved health care for Americans, she stands silent. While fellow Democrats converge in Denver to nominate Barack Obama for president, Edwards remains in seclusion in North Carolina.
It seems an odd way to treat a woman with incurable cancer wronged by a cheating husband, the latest in a series of deep hardships in life that includes the death of a teenage son.
But some former followers have questioned the recklessness of keeping the affair under wraps even though her husband - a former U.S. senator, two-time presidential candidate and the 2004 vice presidential nominee - said he confessed the affair in 2006, before the campaign began in earnest the next year.
“I think she’s complicit,” said Brad Crone, a Raleigh-based Democratic consultant. “Obviously, she knew. While she’s the victim, she clearly didn’t stand in the way of the cover-up.” …
On a liberal blog that Elizabeth Edwards frequents, she explained why she stayed silent after her husband told her of the affair: “This was our private matter, and I frankly wanted it to be private because as painful as it was I did not want to have to play it out on a public stage as well.” …
“It’s a setback for both of them,” said Chris Lehane, a Democratic consultant who helped President Clinton through his cheating scandal. “The question for her - as well as for him - is what is their foundation? What gives them a platform to engage in public issues? …
In a post on the liberal blog Daily Kos, where Edwards has her own diary, she pleaded for privacy and later seemed to explain why she stuck by her spouse and his presidential ambitions.
“An imperfect man with a truly progressive vision who spoke to and for those whom others ignored? Yes, that is who I supported,” she wrote. “An imperfect man who had come to face his own imperfections and was seeking to redeem himself to those closest to him? Yes, that is who I supported.”
Some responded to the affair with words of kindness, while others angrily suggested that keeping the secret was no less a sin that the one committed by her philandering husband.
“She knew she should not have participated in him running for president with this bomb waiting to go off. She did. She kinda loses my sympathy,” wrote one poster.
“I believe we are all owed a huge apology, not self-serving claims for pity by both John and Elizabeth Edwards, who both knew about the affair and both decided to go forward and seek the Democratic candidacy, regardless of the Titanic risk,” wrote another.
Elizabeth Edwards is famously a denizen of the Internet. But she has not posted under her own name at Daily Kos since that day, nor has she posted anything on the Web site of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington where she writes about health care…
“I thought it was very naive on both their parts,” said Betsy Wells, who was an Edwards delegate at the Democratic convention four years ago and worked for each of his three campaigns for office. “It would be very sad if he were the nominee of our party right now.”
Funny, but the Associated Press and their Democrat hack “sources” didn’t say boo about Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton covering up for her husband.
Heck, we have recently learned that Hillary even eavesdropped on Bill’s bimbos to get dirt on them. And that story didn’t even get reported by our watchdog media or garner any outrage at the Daily Kos.
But that was then and this is now.
“It’s a setback for both of them,” said Chris Lehane, a Democratic consultant who helped President Clinton through his cheating scandal. “The question for her - as well as for him - is what is their foundation? What gives them a platform to engage in public issues?”
Oh, our sides…
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August 26th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Hypocrisy Thy Name is Democrat - how come in this party lead by Ted ‘A bridge too far’ Kennedy (who not only was questionable in a party with female staffers, but he ended up killing his), is down on dissed on Elizabeth (although I do agree with them, she was complicit) - just because Her Royal Clinton lied, then admitted she’d been lied to, then lied again and again and - well you get the picture. . . Maybe Ms Edwards, just didn’t have the time to don her downtrodden wife get-up and go out and admit that she’d been lied to.
I know why they do get votes (it finally became clear with this story) the majority of Americans have no problem what-so-ever feeling superior to this pack of cheaters, liars and thieves (or is that gypsies, tramps and thieves?!?). Too bad more people don’t see that it would behoove our government, it’s functioning and most especially our tax dollars to vote for more people who have some morals, decency and values.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
So Hillary is the gold standard as to how a cheated-on politician’s wife should behave? That’s rich.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
“Some … angrily suggested that keeping the secret was no less a sin that the one committed by her philandering husband.
“She knew she should not have participated in him running for president with this bomb waiting to go off. She did….” wrote one poster.
“I believe we are all owed a huge apology, not self-serving claims for pity by both John and Elizabeth Edwards, who both knew about the affair and both decided to go forward and seek the Democratic candidacy, regardless of the Titanic risk,” wrote another.”
The dims don’t give a sh*t whether or not it was “immoral” or not in terms of their personal honesty or in terms of their marriage. What the dims can’t forgive is Elizabeth putting the party in jeopardy. That’s why the SAME sin that Hillary committed was rationalized away and protected and explained and forgiven, because the Clintons were already in power. Power is all that matters to them - not honesty or integrity or morality.
August 26th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
“The dims don’t give a sh*t whether or not it was “immoral” or not in terms of their personal honesty or in terms of their marriage. What the dims can’t forgive is Elizabeth putting the party in jeopardy. That’s why the SAME sin that Hillary committed was rationalized away and protected and explained and forgiven, because the Clintons were already in power. Power is all that matters to them - not honesty or integrity or morality.”
I think you’ve nailed it.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I know this is a taboo subject, but….
This makes me wonder about her cancer. Surely they wouldn’t be so low as to overplay that in an effort to get votes? I wouldn’t put anything past him but, until now, I never realized how complicit she was willing to be. It always bothered me how easily she agreed to give up her last days with her children to help John get elected, because “he’s just that important to our country.”
I pray she is faking it, because I’d rather she ask for forgiveness than to have to face that horrible disease. But if she is truly sick, I am sorry for my doubts. It’s simply hard to believe that someone would willingly give up precious time with their young children for a chance at political power. The fact that they were going ahead with his campaign under those circumstances just seemed surreal to me.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
The Associated Press is biased and sexist. Obviously, Edwards is going to receive criticism and she’s going to receive praise too. That’s the nature of any issue but they’ve focused on criticism because they’re having fun with the witch hunt.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Isn’t this VERY interesting. Elizabeth Edwards is dying from cancer. So for the rest of her short life she will be browbeaten for “allowing” her husband to commit adultery! Also the Warren Buffett piece where he said Edward donors should ask for their money back! Why didn’t someone say if Buffett would like supporters of Bill Clinton who didn’t approve of HIS adultery whether THEY should get their money back. What a piece of Work the Democrats are!
August 27th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Senator Edwards won’t be speaking at the convention because he is found to be a liar and a cheat.
Bill Clintion will be speaking instead.