RIP Elizabeth Edwards

[hondo]

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.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

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Sad ****. Deserved better.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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Deserved way better. I feel awful for her kids.

 

[Moderator1]

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Let's keep politics out of it and wish Mrs. Edwards and her family the best. Thanks.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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

 

[BNWriter]

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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.

 

[21]

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

I'm just not one to gild the lily. I think it does a disservice to the real person, as opposed to what we project onto that real person.

I also think that pretending Elizabeth Edwards is a different person than who she really is has a modicum of sexism to it. It seems like we have less of an issue talking about who men really were when they die or are close to it. Example: George Steinbrenner.

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.

 

[Dick Whitman]

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

I'm just not one to gild the lily. I think it does a disservice to the real person, as opposed to what we project onto that real person.

I also think that pretending Elizabeth Edwards is a different person than who she really is has a modicum of sexism to it. It seems like we have less of an issue talking about who men really were when they die or are close to it. Example: George Steinbrenner.

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.

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.

 

[21]

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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.

 

[Dick Whitman]

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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.

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

 

[KP]

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ABC reporting she has died. RIP.

 

[YankeeFan]

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MSNBC just reported that she passed.

Prayers for the kids.

 

[BYH]

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Geez that was fast.

And I think we can all agree that **** is 100,000,000% right on the idea of a "positive attitude" during a cancer battle being a hunk of ****.

Hope Edwards' family finds peace, even that scumbag of a husband.

 

[Point of Order]

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RIP. You were the brains behind the beauty.

 

[Point of Order]

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Geez that was fast.

Don't try to tell John that.

 

[D-3 Fan]

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Damn. I had much respect for her, before and after the campaign and marriage fiasco.

Too young and too classy to pass away.

 

[CRR13]

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She showed class even when confronted with such devastating news, whether with her idiotic husband or the cancer diagnosis. God bless her and her family.

 

[BYH]

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Geez that was fast.

Don't try to tell John that.

Sorry, you're right. It's never fast to family members. Well, it is, but it's excruciatingly slow at the same time. I just meant fast as in the amount of time that lapsed between her announcement that she was stopping treatment and her death.

And ****, I completely agree. Nobody wanted to live more than my Mom, and nobody was dealt a crueler fate. So spare me the positive attitude bull**** (not directed at you, obviously). It doesn't matter, not one whit.

 

[poindexter]

Geez that was fast.

Don't try to tell John that.

Sorry, you're right. It's never fast to family members. Well, it is, but it's excruciatingly slow at the same time.

I don't think that's what he was getting at.

 

[BYH]

Geez that was fast.

Don't try to tell John that.

Sorry, you're right. It's never fast to family members. Well, it is, but it's excruciatingly slow at the same time.

I don't think that's what he was getting at.

I quite honestly wasn't sure either but decided to give John the benefit of the doubt, though he doesn't deserve it.