RIP Elizabeth Edwards

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/06/elizabeth-edwards-stops-cancer-treatment-releases-statement/

Apparently nothing more can be done. As we all know, she turned out to be the decidedly better half. I read her book, at my wife's urging, and came away with much respect, despite the fact that I'm a Republican. Had she run for president instead of her husband, I might have voted for her.

Class act. Hope she's relatively comfortable for what remains of her days.

 

Re: Sad news about Elizabeth Edwards

Sad shit. Deserved better.

 

Re: Sad news about Elizabeth Edwards

Deserved way better. I feel awful for her kids.

 

Re: Sad news about Elizabeth Edwards

Yeah, don't pile on a woman during her final days.

 

Re: Sad news about Elizabeth Edwards

This is terrible. I feel bad for her kids -- particularly her two youngest, who, I think are not even tweens yet. Let's hope she can receive comfort and peace in her remaining days.

 

Re: Sad news about Elizabeth Edwards

Other than the anecdotes in Game Change, which reflected on her as political wife with a straying husband, do you have any other basis for knowing whether she is 'different' from how she is portrayed?

You have a handful of tales from a political saga, balanced against the very public persona of a woman who was publicly humiliated repeatedly by her husband. Hard to argue that she didn't handle the whole baby mama ordeal--and her husband's lies about it--in an incredibly classy and gracious manner.

 

Re: Sad news about Elizabeth Edwards

It is from "Game Change," correct. But, like I said, she certainly has been a class act in public, dealing with her disease and John's infidelity. I just always worry that we are trying to beatify real people with flaws and warts like all of us.

And I will contend for the 1,000th time that she has nothing to be humiliated about, just as Elin Woods did not. John Edwards humiliated himself, not his wife.

 

Re: Sad news about Elizabeth Edwards

No one was trying to 'beautify' her.

They said she was a class act, and expressed sadness that she was dying.

Not sure why you would use the opportunity to call her 'not anywhere close to a class act on a daily basis. Raging bully is more like it,' based on the anecdotes in a book.

 

Re: Sad news about Elizabeth Edwards

I don't know. It doesn't matter. I'll drop it.

 

Re: Sad news about Elizabeth Edwards

ABC reporting she has died. RIP.

 

Re: Sad news about Elizabeth Edwards

MSNBC just reported that she passed.

Prayers for the kids.