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Edwardses Can't Get Out of Their Own Way

With book, betrayed Elizabeth trades privacy for payback

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted May 6, 2009 8:34 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Elizabeth Edwards knew her husband’s run for president could implode the moment his affair with Rielle Hunter came out, but she played the loving wife role anyway. “It was hard to walk away,” writes Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. “Just as it’s hard to walk away from her desire to prosecute her husband now in public, while still taking the marriage ‘month by month.’”

John Edwards is finished politically. “Nobody—except Rielle—has any interest in hearing from him again,” Dowd contends. “But now Saint Elizabeth has dragged him back into the public square for a flogging.” She bills her book as an inspirational story, “but it’s just a gratuitous peek into their lives,” that exposes her kids and demonizes “the ex-girlfriend who’s now trying to raise the baby girl.”

In an Oct. 7, 2008 file photo Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic Presidential candidate, John Edwards, speaks during a press conference on health care in Richmond, Va.
In an Oct. 7, 2008 file photo Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic Presidential candidate, John Edwards, speaks during a press conference on health care in Richmond, Va.   (AP Photo/Steve Helber/file)
Elizabeth Edwards speaks to the audience at the National Constitution Center about health care in the upcoming presidential election, Sept. 16, 2008, in Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Edwards speaks to the audience at the National Constitution Center about health care in the upcoming presidential election, Sept. 16, 2008, in Philadelphia.   (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek)
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She had put so many quarters in the shiny slot machine of their mutual ambition. It was hard to walk away. - Maureen Dowd

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inky
May 6, 2009 10:18 AM CDT
Hunter is a homewrecker. I would expect no more or less of her or her kind. Telling a married man he's "hot" isn't the classiest of moves, especially when you're hitting the guy up for a job. Sure, JE took the bait. So he's 50% at fault. That would be 50% too much for me to stay on with him, but that's EE's decision to make. I just wish whatever it is she's doing to him, she'd do it in private. I'm just disappointed in the both of them. As for Hunter, she's simply the catalyst in this Greek tragedy,
kirei_gaisuto
May 6, 2009 9:56 AM CDT
Oh really, and what exactly did the bimbo baby mama do? There's no such thing as "stealing" someone else's spouse. A husband is not a pair of jeans. She can bait him but he's the one that took it. He made vows to stay faithful, she didn't. He is 100% at fault, not Hunter. As far as Elizabeth goes, I'd respect her more if she left, but if she's doing this to make his life a living hell, that's awesome.
inky
May 6, 2009 5:05 AM CDT
Honestly, I thought they were both better than this. The only one acting true to form is the bimbo baby mama.

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