My prayers go with Elizabeth and family for they have suffered greatly. John is very fortunate to have them all understand and give him support. I do not think I would be that generous. Why if this affair ended in 2006 is John in this woman's hotel room in the wee hours of the morning just a week ago? It sounds like the affair wasn't finished. And John has just left that out there hanging, either not a bright guy or still in a denial mode.

I repeat --- why think the worst of people: why do u believe all that u read?

All very sad. And while this is the family's business, we need to remember that Edwards ran for public office. It is very difficult to gain public trust and have credibility when you are sneaking around on your wife and violating your marriage vows (especially if alot of your speeches had to do with morality and you tried to represent family values) and lying about your actions repeatedly in public.

As always with the whip-smart Mrs. Edwards, this was written with courage and grace - two qualities she seems to always have hidden under her belt in the most dire of circumstances.

Someone should ask Elizabeth WHY if this is all long past...her husband was visiting an ex-lover he does not love and a baby that is not his...in a hotel across country at 2:30AM in the morning LAST MONTH?

Why has the former Finance Chair of his campaign admitted footing her bills?

Is this 99% "telling the truth?"

WHY WAS YOUR HUSBAND THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT LAST MONTH?

The Edwards' complained that they weren't getting as much press as Hillary and Obama during the campaign... now they're appalled that the media isn't giving them - a family that ran for the presidency - complete privacy to lie. She's acting indignant like everyone who gets caught in a lie. Elizabeth is just as guilty of lying and deceiving their donors, the Democratic party and voters as John. What total hypocrites. They put up a fake front and abused the trust people put in them. Now Elizabeth wants us to feel sorry for her again. I'm sorry she - and millions of others - have cancer. I'm not sorry the press did exactly what they should do and caught a presidential candidate lying. Can you imagine if this guy was our nominee or the VP nominee? McCain would be the next pres. for sure. Obama and the Democratic Party have to drop BOTH Edwards like hot potatoes. Anyone who worked for them or voted for him should be disgusted right now... can you sue a candidate for taking donor money while lying - and paying off his girlfriend? Does they truly think we're going to believe he spent about 5 hours with Reille alone in a hotel room in the middle of the night and the affair's been over for 2 yrs.? This guy is the biggest jerk of all time. And Elizabeth isn't honest either.

Another Democratic star has fallen...go figure! Dems have no hope this fall!

Repub said: "My thoughts and prays go out to the Edward's family..I hope my fellow Republicans will show professionalism in Not taking advantage of this tragic event...this is not the time to play politics Let's show others how we can play grown-up...signed a devoted Republican"

Well said, Repub. Besides, it's distracting us from much more urgent issues.

These unfaithful husbands ask us to take their families feelings into consideration. That is something they should have done, also. I am tired of being preached at by hypocrites.

Why does this have to be a democrat, republican issue. And why do we care if the affair is still going on.

Forgive them, Ohbama, for they know not
what they do.

"I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though.
-Barack Osama
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Wake up, America! Osama makes John Edwards look like a bottom-of-the-barrel piker!

While disappointed, I admire Sen. Edwards for admitting the affair and his remorse. This is a lot different from Clinton, who had trouble even admitting it in the face of undeniable evidence...but that is old news.
I may be on the other end of the political spectrum of the Edwards; but I admire Elizabeth immensely; the strength and grace she has shown in not only this situation, but in the face of her cancer and losing a child. She's a true hero.

Like most, I am sorry for Elizabeth and the children. However, to think that it is no one's business but theirs is wrong. Edwards was an elected public servant. We have a right to know by what standards he lives.

I find it strange that anyone who has ever been responsible for any misdeed to be so judgmental. As to who is more reprehensible, Edwards or McCain, who cares. I have yet to hear McCain own up to his cavalier behavior in his cadet days at Naval Academy. Then his callous behavior towards his first wife. But the only reason this is important is that if McCain or the Republicans make a big issue of this Edwards situation with no consideration for the wife and children in this family, then have I got a lot of swill to divulge about McCain. All of that is no one's business, but if McCain keeps on attacking Obama like he has, I am going ot let it fly. McCain is a womanizer from way back and he still ahs no respect for women, ala his C*** expletive towards his wife. He is a crude, rude, hateful man who even offered up his wife as a topless and bottomless contestant for the bike crew. What a truly disgusting man and that is in the here and now. sick, sick, sick.

Interesting that when a Republican does something they need to resign any offices they hold immediately. When a Democrat does it they need time alone with their families or in a rehab enter and are then allowed to come back stronger than ever.

Meanwhile Edwards RAN against Hillary because he figured that the country saw too many negatives with Hillary because of - ahem - Bill's infidelities.

You don't think there's a double standard? Consider that Nancy Pelosi is out even now flogging her book, and both the Clintons and Obamas are now multi-millionaires solely as a result of flogging their books, but Newt Gingrich had to give HIS book revenues to charity because it was unseemly to make money in that way.

I guess we just expect Democrats to be corrupt and self-serving, while it is still news when a Republican does it.

John Edwards is still a good man fighting the good fight. Look at his public servant record and his record as a citizen. The rest is personal matters that pertain solely to his family. There is no way to justify cruelly torchering the Edwards family this way. Let the scum that are jubilent supporters of the National Enquirer dwell in their dull, shallow existence. Don't let the distraction work.

This entire matter goes to show you that only a few really know a candidate and what they're like behind the scenes. Anyone who deceives themselves into thinking they know the real Obama are just as silly.

There were rumors flying around Edwards during his campaign so that must be true people said. Well, what about the horrid stories of Obama's ties to the criminal and racist elements that keep popping up. By your reasoning, shouldn't that also mean those rumors about Obama are also true, then ? Where's there's smoke there's fire so keep your fire extinguisher handy.

What really ticks me off about the situation is - "we" as parents think it is okay to just stray out side the lines. I feel for Elizabeth - she has lost a child and is fighting breast cancer. Something I am not stranger too in my family on many different levels. I don't condone her political views or what she stands for.

"I say kick his ass out Elizabeth" and enjoy what life your have to live with your children.

Your husband is just another example that power corupts - and men always think with thier third leg once seduced in to the public lime light. I don't know what kind of marriage the two of you have had - but I bet it wasn't what your parents would of wanted, having seen glimps into your childhoood. In all honesty their marriage probably endured alot bumps. However, their names were not all over the news.

My brother was in the senate for 6 years, so I have a litte insight of how it all works - power,women etc....

In the end Ms. Hunter will have to face herself and the child she has brought into this srewed up world.

In ending, this is for you John - I hope you are never able to get it up again - no big loss for you Elizabeth.
Give your children something to remember you by - not what the press has gone out of their way to leave for them to read years down the line.

It is just a matter of time before Obama falls like a house of cards. I was once a democrat until till this race of 08. The democrats are toast.

Hillary is most likely glad she did not receive Edward's endorsement.