Elizabeth Edwards' Statement

This is worse than I thought. Elizabeth Edwards has a statement:

Our family has been through a lot. Some caused by nature, some caused by human weakness, and some most recently caused by the desire for sensationalism and profit without any regard for the human consequences. None of these has been easy. But we have stood with one another through them all. Although John believes he should stand alone and take the consequences of his action now, when the door closes behind him, he has his family waiting for him.

John made a terrible mistake in 2006. The fact that it is a mistake that many others have made before him did not make it any easier for me to hear when he told me what he had done. But he did tell me. And we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made somewhat easier with my diagnosis in March of 2007. This was our private matter, and I frankly wanted it to be private because as painful as it was I did not want to have to play it out on a public stage as well. Because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter could no longer be wholly private. The pain of the long journey since 2006 was about to be renewed.

So the Edwards, both John and Elizabeth, conveniently decided to keep the matter secret and not allow it to come out for a full vetting, for the entire time he was running for President. And all the times that John Edwards explicitly denied the rumors, Elizabeth knew he was lying, and did nothing.


My respect for her just went down a great deal. She may decide that it's a private matter, but when your husband is running for president, it most surely is not. Well maybe now it is, since he's no longer in the picture, but even that stance is dubious, as he was known to be seeking a high office within a potential Obama administration. This could have been very damaging to their own party and cost them the election entirely.