Edwardsian Dirt: Elizabeth and John Edwards

Edwardsian Dirt: Elizabeth and John Edwards

. . . All that said, allowing that Elizabeth Edwards may only be dead three weeks, it may not be awfully premature to set Elizabeth’s record straight. She is already buried and I come not to praise her.

Acclaimed a champion of health care reform, championing it only after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, Mrs. Edwards was an accomplished lawyer in her own right who had campaigned tirelelessly for the two Johns, Edwards and Kerry, that year. She was also a vocal advocate for gay marriage and abortion rights.

If there were two America’s in JJE’s universe, there were also two Elizabeths.

If not a confirmed atheist or agnostic, she reacted with perhaps understandable bitterness following her diagnosis saying that “she couldn’t see how she could believe in a god who would blow her 16-year-old son off the road and kill him in an auto accident in 1996 and that any god who could do that was a god that she was not going to be praying to to cure her cancer because if he wouldn’t save her son, he wasn’t going to save her:” http://tiny.cc/gmahu

According to ABCGMA.com, Mrs. Edwards, separated but not yet divorced from her husband of 30 years, threatened JJE’s former aide, Andrew Young, with an alienation of affection lawsuit for having helped cause the dissolution of her marriage and attempted to extort money from him. The threat was both irrational and ironic since Edwards had tapped his long-time aide to be his fall guy to take the heat for impregnating Rielle and Young had, temporarily, agreed out of deference to his boss: http://tiny.cc/fzo87

When the burden of that outrageous lie became too much for Young and his wife to bear, he spilled his guts on JJE and the outrage as well as on Elizabeth’s threats and vicious name-calling in his 2010 tell-all book, The Politician.

Those are all sufficient references to get the picture. There’s no need to recount the many corroborated stories of an insatiably ambitious Elizabeth Edwards, an apparent vile shrew who browbeat her weak and weepy husband, treatment that in no way excuses John Edwards’ caddish, corrupt behavior but which does give reason to remember Elizabeth as nothing more than a loving mother.

May she rest in peace, along with John Edwards’ career. And may God pity 12 year old Emma Claire Edwards, 10 year old Jack Edwards and, especially, little Frances Quinn.
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