Did Elizabeth Edwards Know When She Said This?

leave the woman be...has she not been through enough?
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Mrs. Edwards knew of her husbands affair -- knew voters would likely be turned off and not support him in his presidential bid. She stayed quiet and shares in some of the blame for deceiving voters.

Whether those primary votes would have gone to Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama -- perhaps even changing the outcome of the democratic primary -- we'll just never know. We can only speculate.

Look if Elizabeth real wants to believe that John was "seduced" and he didn't run after this woman like a highschooler let her. I am sure this is the only way she can cope staying with him.
To put all the blame on the other woman is she is only fooling herself.

Mrs. Edwards is a very good actress...

so what. what would you say? leave the woman alone.

I believe that fidelity or infidelity in a marriage should stay in the marriage. Ms. Edwards is putting it into the spotlight but why? To sell her book? What about her children? Why badmouth her husband to the world? She chose to stay.She chose to support his campaign

Does any of this really matter, especially now? The affair ended the career of an otherwise good politician. Why are we talking about this private matter when we allowed the past administration to destroy this country during its eight year reign.

What I can't believe is we're discussing an old, tired story when the current financial crisis could bring the world to its knees; when over half a million people have lost their jobs in just the month of April. We need to move on to more important issues. http://worthanopinion/net

Jim Worth
Author, "Final Audit"

C'mon, 5 commercials before I could see the interview with Elizabeth Edwards? Maybe there was more...at 5 I disconnected. I know you need to get revenue to do this, but don't turn it into TV.

C'mon folks, we have way too many important issues to think about now. Who care what she knew and when she knew it? Is that helping Joe Blow keep his job and house? I think not. Stick to the important issues people. Give the Edwards a break. They have their own problems and we have ours.

One never knows what goes on behind closed doors! They (the Edwards) have to work out the situation and live with what they work out. Losing a child, having cancer, are hard steps to work through, and then infidelty is another. Like Elizabeth states each day is a new day. Smell the roses while you can.

Elizabeth Edwards has A LOT on her mind, you know, cheating husband, dying & leaving really young children behind. I can live with it if she were fuzzy on the details.

Don't be an ass (and I say that as loyal viewer). Leave the woman alone (and I say THAT as a lifelong Republican).

Use your power and influence to focus on something where you can make a positive difference, not on a sex scandal with an obsolete politician.

I am still trying to get through all the advertisements...and some are repeats. This stinks.

so sad that she kept it quiet. what a jerk he has turned out to be, so sad. shows you just never know.....

My sympathy for Elizabeth in regard to that cheating no good is substantially waning as she continues to make disparaging remarks about one half of the "diddlying duo" and assessing all the fault to one person. Get a grip woman, you are making yourself look incredibly stupid. Why has there been no DNA test?

Of course Mrs Edwards "knew". Just like Hillary knew about Slick Willie's proclivity for lusting after anything in a skirt & tight blouse. Let her peddle her book. All it proves is john edwards is a phony cad, just like bill clinton. You can always tell they are lying cause their lips are moving.

I didn't see the interview with Elizabeth Edwards because of too many commercials. After 2 of them I just turn it off I thought I clicked the wrong button...........

ridiculous amount of commercials!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

... some serious things that we…

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Give me one issue.

EDWARDS: Not on camera, I'm not going there.
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George,

Sucker, stop interrupting people. If you had not interrupted this moron to give you an issue, he might have slipped it out.

Had that happened, HRC probably would have been the Pres.

Now, not only Iowans, you also owe the world an apology.

I think it's mostly the Hillary supporters who think that this issue is important. Had Edwards not been in the primaries -- his voters would most likely have voted for Hillary -- Edwards and Hillary were pretty close on most issues. It could have tipped the scales in the democratic primary and eventually the whole election. This is one of those little events that may very well have had a big impact on history.

It's not fair to criticize Elizabeth Edwards for not revealing his affair when she found out. She was probably hurt. If your spouse wounded you in such a way, would you really want it broadcast around the world? As a Democrat I was livid at being decieved by him but everyone also needs to remember that she has a duty to protect her family first. She has the right to try and deal with the affair privately, like any other couple with children would/should want to do.

I lasted through 10 30-second commercials before bailing out -- I was curious to see how many would run, but now I realize it's huge friggin waste of my time. Thanks, George. I'll never follow any of your tweet links, ever, ever, ever again!

I think the fact that her book release and the investigation of her husband's campaign expenses with the other woman coincide is a little suspicious. To be honest the only reason I was gonna vote for John Edwards the first time was due to a CSPAN townhouse - yest it was in someone's house - that Mrs. Edwards held where she articulated quite well on health care. And no she wasn't speaking of socializing it.

I really like her - even if he's kinda swarmy.

am i the only one who thinks the news media are bending over backwards to protect john edwards by trashing his wife? how about the news media pointing the finger at themselves and asking the most important question...when did the news media get information about edwards' affair and why did they wait to report it until after he was out of the presidential race?

but, Christina, she didn't protect her family! The Enquirer had been running stories about the affair for months before any legitimate news agency picked it up. In this Internet age, chances are the children were most likely privy to the rumors too.

Keeping quiet dragged the incident out longer then it had to. She knew of the affair and still publicly supported her husband's presidential run knowing the Enquirer was on the story. Protecting the children would have been putting her foot down and refusing to support his run for president. That would have forced him to not put in a bid for president and in that case, the story would have been so trivial that most wouldn't have paid attention. That would have protected the children.

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