Enquirer: John Edwards Kicked Out of the House

According to the National Enquirer, disgraced 2008 Democratic Presidential nominee 2nd runner-up John Edwards has been living apart from wife Elizabeth since July of 2008:

(John Edwards') cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth kicked him out of their bedroom more than two years ago when he confessed to cheating on her, and the two are now living apart, sources say.

While the disgraced presidential candidate occasionally spends time at their sprawling mansion for the sake of their two younger children, the couple - who married in 1977 - sleep apart, insiders say.

...When he publicly confessed the affair to ABC News after The ENQUIRER caught him with Rielle and her love child Frances at a Los Angeles hotel in July 2008, Elizabeth tossed him out of their Chapel Hill, N.C., home, the source said.

This is a sad footnote to a tragic study in ego. The Edwards affair is also a huge black eye for journalism, and for the liberal community.

John Edwards was the candidate that many of us believed in so strongly that we were willing to dismiss increasingly better-documented stories about an affair, dating back to 2007.

In fact, the first writer to call it, Huffington Post's Lee Stranahan, was banned from Daily Kos (and wished out of existence by its founder) for his trouble. This was after Edwards had been photographed egressing Hunter's hotel.

The real shame of it is that Edwards' work on poverty issues was so very important, and his disgrace has damaged that.

As for the uncharitable attitude so many have taken towards Elizabeth Edwards, I would ask them to magnify their own sense of betrayal exponentially, then imagine what it was like for her to live with this.

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