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Elizabeth Edwards: More criticism?

by Stacy Kravitz

A recent article on CNN reports that Elizabeth Edwards is now being criticized for keeping her husband’s affair secret so that his political ambitions could continue and so that she could advance her own agenda.

Um. Wait. BACK UP. Did I read that right? The wife of a man with a wandering eye and hand (and … oh, nevermind, you know!) is now being put on the chopping block because when she found out about her husband’s indiscretions, she choose NOT to tell the media and the entire nation? Seriously!?

John Edwards may have had an affair and tried to hide it but where do we get off telling his wife, his cheated on wife that she did anything wrong? I get that they are political figures and that makes, by some crazy and quite arguable twist of fate, their lives public information. But I don’t buy into that.

Maybe I’m just a stupid old staunch liberal who doesn’t care who her President sleeps with at night. I prefer it be his or her spouse, but I could honestly care less if our political leaders are black or white or gay or straight. Call me old fashioned or stupid or lame but I really don’t care what my politicians do behind closed doors. I get that people think a man who will commit adultery is not strong enough and not valued enough to be our nation’s leader, but, I tend to see a larger picture, not forgiving the affair or the lack of values or moral judgment, but I guess, I just feel that a private life is just that, not really any of my business. And, it doesn’t really have any bearing on the ability to govern. Just sayin’.

I also feel pretty strongly that Elizabeth doesn’t deserve any crap from us. She was the wife who was cheated ON, she is managing terminal cancer (metastatic breast cancer), and she is a mother and a wife, she has plenty going on in her life and no doubt feels an immense amount of guilt over her husband’s poor choices and over the fact that her health is worsening (albeit slowly, but, she is terminal). I think she kept quiet on this because it was her PRIVATE life and she doesn’t deserve to be judged based on John’s actions and she certainly doesn’t deserve to be judged by us.

SOURCE: CNN


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