I feel bad that she has Cancer.  With that said, she is just as tacky as her husband.  

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”

Samuel Adams

  Edwards would have been a truly bad President.   A man truly unqualified.  But.... better than what we have now.

Did they REALLY believe they could pull the wool over the entire country's eyes were they successful in the election?  Once again, the 'do you know who I am' crowd lets the America public know what they really think of us...the great unwashed knuckle-dragging masses!  What they fail to understand as they sit in their lofty mansions is that WE ARE AMERICA!!!!

I agree - she is NOT a victim - and I take great offense in her public airing of her dirty laundry!  Some people just don't have any class - even if they do live in huge mansions with hotsy-totsy ambulance chasers! 

For whatever years Elizabeth Edwards has left, I would think she would prefer to live them with her head held high rather than running all over the place humiliating herself in public.  I would have more respect for her, just as I would have had for Hillary, if she had stood up for herself and cast aside her 'ride' - neither of these men care one hoot about their respective wives...and by remaining in the relationship, it is quite obvious what is important to both women. 

Believe me, I will NOT buy or read her tell-all book.

For Hillary, it's nothing more than POLITICS!  Without Bill Clinton, she would have been Hillary Who???? 

This comment comes from a proud RWRE!!   It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ San Adams

Agreed.  As long as his infidelity was a secret, and his campaign hopes alive, she played right along. 

Now that his political career is a shambles and she has joined Hillary Clinton's Cheating Husbands Club, she wants to be seen as a victim (Victims are heroes in today's media culture).   And she wants us to buy her book.

She's a fraud.

Now people you have the Breck Girl all wrong.  When he wanter to study poverty, he said he went to work for a hedge fund.  So, he want to study, I'll let you fill in the blank here, by having an affair.  It was

I feel sorry for Elizabeth Edwards for the loss of her son and her struggle with cancer --- which qualifies me as Obama's SCOTUS nominee --- but the woman married and stayed married to one of the sleaziest, least sincere, and phoniest politicians who ever preened for the public, and that's her freaking problem.

Let me state right off the bat that as someone who comes from a family that has had a number of members who have faced cancer, I have enormous sympathy and respect for Elizabeth Edwards for what she has been and is still dealing with every day....My prayers are with her and her children, and I wish them the best in that regard.

That said, I have to admit that I have a lot of trouble with the fact that she agreed to stand by her miserable excuse for a husband, knowing that he had cheated on, lied to and humiliated her. When it became public that she knew what John had done, and yet continued to help him campaign and gave speeches telling voters what a great man he was, what a wonderful president he would be, and that they should vote for him, I lost some respect for her, cancer or not.

As for her book, I have mixed emotions about that. Part of me is happy that she wrote it and is promoting it because this may be her way to get some payback against her scumbag husband. I'll admit, that's a pretty petty and small view. On the other hand, I also think it is an extremely tasteless thing to do to go public with all of this very personal, and I'm sure painful, dirty laundry. If I ever found myself in the same position, I'd die first before I would go public with such information, but that's me. I find myself wondering what compelled her to go public with all this...Is it as simple as looking for pity? She certainly doesn't need the money.

This whole situation is a real mess, and I do feel genuinely sorry for Elizabeth Edwards...She didn't ask for any of what she has had to endure during her life (her son's death, the cancer and the treatment by her husband). I do think however, that this book was a very, very bad idea and I continue to wonder why she felt the need to write it.    

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

I have to say, the tone of this article reads very much like a whacko lefty blog post.  The woman has has lost a child, been diagnosed with cancer 2x and married a genuine POS.  Putting out a book might not have been the best move but it doesn't mean that she should be attacked for it.  Let her take her little book tour, get her15 more minutes of attention and then move on.  I realize there is a double standard here, but, under these facts, you will never win.  It would be better to ignore and move on.  Just my 2 cents.  

Whatever happened to not airing your dirty laundry?  I think if Mrs. Edwards had some specific message to impart besides poor me, it would be one thing.  But I don't see any point.  What has this lead her to?  She hasn't left her husband, but she hasn't forgiven him either. 

Yes she's had a difficult time, but so have many of us.  We simply chose not to excortiate those have hurt us in public unless it serves a higher purpose.

long enough to wring some potential cash out of what people with shame would call "dirty laundry."

And, yes, if she was a conservative I would say the same; it is cheap and tawdry to write a book about what should be a private matter.

Elizabeth Edwards' medical issues but IMO she lost any sympathy for being married to a scumbag when she actively worked to get him elected.  She wanted the office as much as he did.