Elizabeth Edwards: Tragic Heroine or Enabling Conspirator?
Why do we need to analyze it in the first place? Simply because someone is a public figure, does that mean that we have to sit in judgement. Edwards made his error. I think we should leave his wife out of it until she decides she has something else to say. Then we can decide if we wish to listen. How many women have husbands who have cheated on them? I seem to hear about it all around me. Who doesn’t have problems in their marriage from time to time? And who wants to go out and air that to the public? Would we all think so much more of Elizabeth Edwards if she came out and said her husband was a horrible man and a cheater? Maybe they have made amends. It disgusts me that people think of this as some quest for power thing. Maybe it is simply the wish to avoid being embarrassed when someone does something that hurts you to the core. Maybe she is being as dignified as she possibly can under a great deal of hurt and sideways glances.
What really peeves me is the point that some people make this a political item rather than a personal one. I think there is enough of this kind of tragedy across the aisles to stay away from that one.
