Elizabeth Edwards addresses todays news on Daily Kos

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by elizabethedwards

Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 04:40:51 PM PDT

Our family has been through a lot. Some caused by nature, some caused by human weakness, and some – most recently – caused by the desire for sensationalism and profit without any regard for the human consequences. None of these has been easy. But we have stood with one another through them all. Although John believes he should stand alone and take the consequences of his action now, when the door closes behind him, he has his family waiting for him.

John made a terrible mistake in 2006. The fact that it is a mistake that many others have made before him did not make it any easier for me to hear when he told me what he had done. But he did tell me. And we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made somewhat easier with my diagnosis in March of 2007. 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. Because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter could no longer be wholly private.

The pain of the long journey since 2006 was about to be renewed.

John has spoken in a long on-camera interview I hope you watch. Admitting one’s mistakes is a hard thing for anyone to do, and I am proud of the courage John showed by his honesty in the face of shame. The toll on our family of news helicopters over our house and reporters in our driveway is yet unknown. But now the truth is out, and the repair work that began in 2006 will continue. I ask that the public, who expressed concern about the harm John’s conduct has done to us, think also about the real harm that the present voyeurism does and give me and my family the privacy we need at this time.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/8...7354/473/564989

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Daily Kos.......... :o :o

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John Edwards posts there quite a bit.

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Wow...what a remarkable woman. Although it's difficult for people to look past the sensationalism of something like this, it shows that some couples carry on instead of letting it rip them apart.

Edited August 9, 2008 by Jabberwocky

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Steven,

This means Elizabeth was complicit in letting JRE seek the nomination this year.

They knew the risks of this story coming out, they know the culture we live in, they know how dire the situation is in this country and how important it is to get the neocons out of the WH.... and yet, they both willingly and knowingly decided JRE should seek the nomination. Ambition over party; even worse, ambition over country.

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Steven,

This means Elizabeth was complicit in letting JRE seek the nomination this year.

They knew the risks of this story coming out, they know the culture we live in, they know how dire the situation is in this country and how important it is to get the neocons out of the WH.... and yet, they both willingly and knowingly decided JRE should seek the nomination. Ambition over party; even worse, ambition over country.

That's crazy talk. The history of American Presidents is riddled with controversies of a personal nature - Lincoln's love letters to his gay lover, Jefferson fathering illegitimate children with his slaves. Although it was a stupid thing to do, I don't think it would disqualify someone from being president....at least it never has in the past....and many of the scandalous presidents turned out to be some pretty good ones.

Edited August 9, 2008 by Jabberwocky

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How many of those scandals came to light during a campaign?

I'm not saying he's be a bad President; I'm saying a revelation like this is a potential campaign killer.

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How many of those scandals came to light during a campaign?

I'm not saying he's be a bad President; I'm saying a revelation like this is a potential campaign killer.

Perhaps, but I don't think it was reckless to try and run knowing that news of the affair could finally surface. It wasn't until he admitted to the affair that anyone really paid any attention to it, besides the tabloids.