It takes a long time to put aside the sense of betrayal after a spouse (male or female) has an affair. Unfortunately, Mrs. Edwards may not have the time to work through this process. The worst legacy of this affair may be that Elizabeth Edwards dies with the sadness and sense of failure still fresh in her mind. It's a terrible thing to do to a terminably ill person.
Most of us want and need sex, but caring adults can put their needs aside when necessary. If John Edwards needs sex, love, and reassurance of his attractiveness, how much more did/does his wife require these things? She married beneath her.
linwal
August 10th, 2008 6:50 PM
Rielle, You knew this man was married and had unprotected sex. Disgusting lonely female who wanted to have a baby for a married man.
You love him but it was just sex for him. You will never have him. "Are you lonely tonight"
jeteye
August 10th, 2008 6:28 PM
This ho’s face is shaped like a football. A skank with the 80’s do that got lucky. She looks like a Studio 54 reject on a bad acid trip. Edwards must have had a horrific case of blue balls to bang this facially challenged space cadet. Or, maybe he was wacked on bad weed. Could have done better.
andre
August 10th, 2008 5:31 PM
wow.... cmon edwards -- you could have done a lot better. If you're wrecking your life -- make it a hot little 20-something at least
But - Guys - we are hopeless scum, we really are. Let by our D*cks thru the world!!! PROOF POSITIVE -- the guy who cheated on CHRISTIE BRINKLEY -- have you had a look at her lately??? Stunning, bite-my-tongue-off HOT. RIdonkulous, knockout, to this day ...and that wasn't enough for her husband. Unreal.
But -- we don;t know -- like someone else sai d-- maybe she had cut him off. Ya never know.
But ALL sides do this -- don;t even TRY to go there, republicans!! Your team is RIFE with this -- and I say its WORSE -- since you guys are always RUNNING on the morality ticket -- always telling the rest of us that sex is evil etc... you NEVER hear the DEMS selling us that claptrap. Bubba Clinton NEVER ran around saying 'be faithful...dont have sex...sex is evil." BIG difference.
Margaret
August 10th, 2008 5:25 PM
When this sort of thing happens in politics, I always am upset when the wife leave, or kick the guy out. I think it sends the wrong message to Elizabeth's daughters to forgive him and help him go forward as if this wouldn't be found out. In this case, I'd leave so that my daughter would get the message that you don't just lay down and take this type of treatment from a man, much less back him up. I'd set an example for my daughter to have some backbone and kick him out.
It sounds like Elizabeth was cluless when he visited his mistress after he confessed in 2006. Now, if kept sneaking around to see this woman after he initially came clean, I would tell him not to let the doors hit him in the ass as he left for the last time.
metrp
August 10th, 2008 3:08 PM
Rielle Hunter IS A DISGUSTING, HORSE-FACED, WHORE
Bob H.
August 10th, 2008 2:12 PM
It's a fact of life that all humans have feet of clay. Temptation is all around. We expect more of leaders, but they often show that they are as weak as the rest of us. Rielle Hunter is likely a sweet and good woman who "knew better". I feel the most compassion for her. She will carry the brunt of the blame, but should not. We should all just take this as a lesson to learn by and move on.
Northern Friend
August 10th, 2008 9:21 AM
"The puritan in us makes us stupid. Bush started a war on a pile of lies that has killed 4,000 of our troops and maybe 100, Iraqi civilian. He also turned us into a nation that approves of torture. Far more important "sins" but little outrage. But let some politician get in the wrong bed and we get our knickers in a major twist. Sick."
Finally one smart comment here!
Americans: Wake up before you self-destroy. Forget about who slept with who and focus on your house burning down - not that I really care since I'm not American. But as your northern neighbor, I am concerned about the USA becoming less than nothing. It's well on its way!
Merman87
August 10th, 2008 8:56 AM
If you ask me Rielle is pretty hot! I'm not surprised. Ms. Edwards really let herself go and he's out on that campaign trail. Things are bound to happen. Not justifying it but this is common among humanity public figure or not. I am looking forward to seeing the paternity test results on Maury!
theKing
August 10th, 2008 8:19 AM
Ha Ha Ha, lying sack of $hit
John Alexander
August 10th, 2008 8:18 AM
Everybody is tisk tisking about Edwards and how lucky he didn't get the nomination. I agree what he did was sleazy, but John McCain did essentially the same thing and he has been nominated.
The puritan in us makes us stupid. Bush started a war on a pile of lies that has killed 4,000 of our troops and maybe 100, Iraqi civilian. He also turned us into a nation that approves of torture. Far more important "sins" but little outrage. But let some politician get in the wrong bed and we get our knickers in a major twist. Sick.
al
August 10th, 2008 5:30 AM
Dennis- you forgot another cheating Democrat--FDR!! And he was married to the greatest woman of the 20th Century. The only non-cheating Democrat of consequence was Harry Truman-and he was drunk!
tom
August 10th, 2008 5:26 AM
Hey Frank- Germans shouldn't talk. Look at your recent past. Germany has been the embodiment of evil. Or did the average non-Nazi not notice that 5 million people were "missing"?
calvin
August 10th, 2008 5:22 AM
I want to know why such a smart, rich, lawyer/politician, wasn't smart enough to use a condom? The kid is his-that's the next confession. You gots to keep the weasel dry in a sordid relationship like this. Smarten up Johnny!!!!!!
irv
August 10th, 2008 5:14 AM
Hey Maynard- then why does Obama preach like a preacher and talk about God all the time?
paul
August 10th, 2008 5:10 AM
c'mon Irv. He HAS done better than this. Just another trollup for the Edwards grinder. All the Charlotte insiders know that this man's a whore machine. This type of behavior is all old news. God bless his wife. I pray for her.
irv
August 10th, 2008 5:01 AM
she looked much better in the TV interview. Not so hot though. Edwards should have been able to do better than this.
peter
August 10th, 2008 3:19 AM
at least he has better taste than bill clinton , she looks better than monica lewinsky lol
Brent
August 10th, 2008 2:16 AM
Go eat sand america!! Eat your mothers eye balls out !!
Deb
August 10th, 2008 1:43 AM
Unfortunately, our next generation will probably have very few really good people serving in public office. No one is going to want to run because the press will dig so deep into their past that no mistake however small will not go untold. No one is without mistakes and a decent person is not going to put their family through it. The press has exposed him for the low life that he is. We have been informed as we should be. Now drop it for the sake of his wife and children. They should not have to suffer the humiliation that he has set them up to endure. He is a poor excuse of a husband and Father. I think that he is another example of the poor quality of public servants that we will be stuck with. Shame on him and his cheap mistress.
Elizabeth Edwards condones the whole thing. She knows about it and has known about other affairs for years. She's just like all the other women who don't want to rock the boat. Face the facts, people.
Pat OConnor
August 10th, 2008 1:03 AM
Good night!!!
JT, get off the computer before your mom whips your ass.
J.T. Neal
August 10th, 2008 1:01 AM
See exactly you americans don't know how to respond to my comment because it's the truth and yet it's sad...... ill educated americans...... and I truly thought americans were smart brilliant individuals..... wow was i wrong.... you should be thanking your god(s) for your current president .... if you only knew how much the rest of this world wants to take the life of an american. You keep fighting internally...... If america doesn't wake up...... I truly doubt you would wake up if the extreme muslims started taking lives on your home soil again...... or you might wake up for a few months than let your guard down again....... keep it up america..keep it up !!
Pat O
August 10th, 2008 12:57 AM
JJ, Goober and JT, I just applied for a job in a mental institution and they said that I needed 1 hour of experience working with the mentally retarded before I am qualified.
August 10th, 2008 7:11 PM
It takes a long time to put aside the sense of betrayal after a spouse (male or female) has an affair. Unfortunately, Mrs. Edwards may not have the time to work through this process. The worst legacy of this affair may be that Elizabeth Edwards dies with the sadness and sense of failure still fresh in her mind. It's a terrible thing to do to a terminably ill person.
Most of us want and need sex, but caring adults can put their needs aside when necessary. If John Edwards needs sex, love, and reassurance of his attractiveness, how much more did/does his wife require these things? She married beneath her.
August 10th, 2008 6:50 PM
Rielle, You knew this man was married and had unprotected sex. Disgusting lonely female who wanted to have a baby for a married man.
You love him but it was just sex for him. You will never have him. "Are you lonely tonight"
August 10th, 2008 6:28 PM
This ho’s face is shaped like a football. A skank with the 80’s do that got lucky. She looks like a Studio 54 reject on a bad acid trip. Edwards must have had a horrific case of blue balls to bang this facially challenged space cadet. Or, maybe he was wacked on bad weed. Could have done better.
August 10th, 2008 5:31 PM
wow.... cmon edwards -- you could have done a lot better. If you're wrecking your life -- make it a hot little 20-something at least
But - Guys - we are hopeless scum, we really are. Let by our D*cks thru the world!!! PROOF POSITIVE -- the guy who cheated on CHRISTIE BRINKLEY -- have you had a look at her lately??? Stunning, bite-my-tongue-off HOT. RIdonkulous, knockout, to this day ...and that wasn't enough for her husband. Unreal.
But -- we don;t know -- like someone else sai d-- maybe she had cut him off. Ya never know.
But ALL sides do this -- don;t even TRY to go there, republicans!! Your team is RIFE with this -- and I say its WORSE -- since you guys are always RUNNING on the morality ticket -- always telling the rest of us that sex is evil etc... you NEVER hear the DEMS selling us that claptrap. Bubba Clinton NEVER ran around saying 'be faithful...dont have sex...sex is evil." BIG difference.
August 10th, 2008 5:25 PM
When this sort of thing happens in politics, I always am upset when the wife leave, or kick the guy out. I think it sends the wrong message to Elizabeth's daughters to forgive him and help him go forward as if this wouldn't be found out. In this case, I'd leave so that my daughter would get the message that you don't just lay down and take this type of treatment from a man, much less back him up. I'd set an example for my daughter to have some backbone and kick him out.
It sounds like Elizabeth was cluless when he visited his mistress after he confessed in 2006. Now, if kept sneaking around to see this woman after he initially came clean, I would tell him not to let the doors hit him in the ass as he left for the last time.
August 10th, 2008 3:08 PM
Rielle Hunter IS A DISGUSTING, HORSE-FACED, WHORE
August 10th, 2008 2:12 PM
It's a fact of life that all humans have feet of clay. Temptation is all around. We expect more of leaders, but they often show that they are as weak as the rest of us. Rielle Hunter is likely a sweet and good woman who "knew better". I feel the most compassion for her. She will carry the brunt of the blame, but should not. We should all just take this as a lesson to learn by and move on.
August 10th, 2008 9:21 AM
"The puritan in us makes us stupid. Bush started a war on a pile of lies that has killed 4,000 of our troops and maybe 100, Iraqi civilian. He also turned us into a nation that approves of torture. Far more important "sins" but little outrage. But let some politician get in the wrong bed and we get our knickers in a major twist. Sick."
Finally one smart comment here!
Americans: Wake up before you self-destroy. Forget about who slept with who and focus on your house burning down - not that I really care since I'm not American. But as your northern neighbor, I am concerned about the USA becoming less than nothing. It's well on its way!
August 10th, 2008 8:56 AM
If you ask me Rielle is pretty hot! I'm not surprised. Ms. Edwards really let herself go and he's out on that campaign trail. Things are bound to happen. Not justifying it but this is common among humanity public figure or not. I am looking forward to seeing the paternity test results on Maury!
August 10th, 2008 8:19 AM
Ha Ha Ha, lying sack of $hit
August 10th, 2008 8:18 AM
Everybody is tisk tisking about Edwards and how lucky he didn't get the nomination. I agree what he did was sleazy, but John McCain did essentially the same thing and he has been nominated.
The puritan in us makes us stupid. Bush started a war on a pile of lies that has killed 4,000 of our troops and maybe 100, Iraqi civilian. He also turned us into a nation that approves of torture. Far more important "sins" but little outrage. But let some politician get in the wrong bed and we get our knickers in a major twist. Sick.
August 10th, 2008 5:30 AM
Dennis- you forgot another cheating Democrat--FDR!! And he was married to the greatest woman of the 20th Century. The only non-cheating Democrat of consequence was Harry Truman-and he was drunk!
August 10th, 2008 5:26 AM
Hey Frank- Germans shouldn't talk. Look at your recent past. Germany has been the embodiment of evil. Or did the average non-Nazi not notice that 5 million people were "missing"?
August 10th, 2008 5:22 AM
I want to know why such a smart, rich, lawyer/politician, wasn't smart enough to use a condom? The kid is his-that's the next confession. You gots to keep the weasel dry in a sordid relationship like this. Smarten up Johnny!!!!!!
August 10th, 2008 5:14 AM
Hey Maynard- then why does Obama preach like a preacher and talk about God all the time?
August 10th, 2008 5:10 AM
c'mon Irv. He HAS done better than this. Just another trollup for the Edwards grinder. All the Charlotte insiders know that this man's a whore machine. This type of behavior is all old news. God bless his wife. I pray for her.
August 10th, 2008 5:01 AM
she looked much better in the TV interview. Not so hot though. Edwards should have been able to do better than this.
August 10th, 2008 3:19 AM
at least he has better taste than bill clinton , she looks better than monica lewinsky lol
August 10th, 2008 2:16 AM
Go eat sand america!! Eat your mothers eye balls out !!
August 10th, 2008 1:43 AM
Unfortunately, our next generation will probably have very few really good people serving in public office. No one is going to want to run because the press will dig so deep into their past that no mistake however small will not go untold. No one is without mistakes and a decent person is not going to put their family through it. The press has exposed him for the low life that he is. We have been informed as we should be. Now drop it for the sake of his wife and children. They should not have to suffer the humiliation that he has set them up to endure. He is a poor excuse of a husband and Father. I think that he is another example of the poor quality of public servants that we will be stuck with. Shame on him and his cheap mistress.
August 10th, 2008 1:26 AM
Krystal is obviously a democrat....
Rank: New User
August 10th, 2008 1:23 AM
Elizabeth Edwards condones the whole thing. She knows about it and has known about other affairs for years. She's just like all the other women who don't want to rock the boat. Face the facts, people.
August 10th, 2008 1:03 AM
Good night!!!
JT, get off the computer before your mom whips your ass.
August 10th, 2008 1:01 AM
See exactly you americans don't know how to respond to my comment because it's the truth and yet it's sad...... ill educated americans...... and I truly thought americans were smart brilliant individuals..... wow was i wrong.... you should be thanking your god(s) for your current president .... if you only knew how much the rest of this world wants to take the life of an american. You keep fighting internally...... If america doesn't wake up...... I truly doubt you would wake up if the extreme muslims started taking lives on your home soil again...... or you might wake up for a few months than let your guard down again....... keep it up america..keep it up !!
August 10th, 2008 12:57 AM
JJ, Goober and JT, I just applied for a job in a mental institution and they said that I needed 1 hour of experience working with the mentally retarded before I am qualified.
Um do you guys want to hang out?