Story about John and Elizabeth Edwards

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) --

Two weeks after a devastating revelation sent her husband into political exile, Elizabeth Edwards isn't getting the steady sympathy usually afforded to a woman scorned.

Elizabeth Edwards, pictured with John Edwards in May, has been criticized for the way she handled his affair.

Instead, she's faced criticism from dedicated Democrats who think she was too willing to keep the affair a secret to help John Edwards' political ambitions, as well as her own. At a time when she was expected to hold a prominent role in pushing an agenda of improved health care for Americans, she stands silent. While fellow Democrats converge in Denver, Colorado, to nominate Barack Obama for president, Edwards remains in seclusion in North Carolina. It seems an odd way to treat a woman with incurable cancer wronged by a cheating husband, the latest in a series of deep hardships in life that includes the death of a teenage son....In a post on the liberal blog Daily Kos, where Edwards has her own diary, she pleaded for privacy and later seemed to explain why she stuck by her spouse and his presidential ambitions.
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Amazing that it is the liberal blogs that want to tear her apart. So much for compassion. And forgiveness. If someone knows they have done wrong -- and an affair under any circumstances, by any measure, is wrong -- they stop doing it and seek to make it right, then we need to extend forgiveness. Under the circumstances, John Edwards affair is somewhat creepy and certainly frightening, but it is not unforgivable.

Elizabeth and John have a 16 yr old son who died, she has cancer, and he had an affair. Cheating on a spouse is wrong no matter what, but sometimes people do lousy things under severe stress they may not have done otherwise.

He ended the affair and sought to make it right with his wife. She decided to work towards forgiving him. Why does this disqualify him politically? No one can claim perfection. We venerate people like John F Kennedy who are believed to have had multiple affairs with no apparent remorse, yet we want to demonize John Edwards for an affair he ended. Worse — we want to demonize his wife for forgiving him.

Why?

For another take see http://seriouslyguys.com/2008/08/26/for-shame-elizabeth-edwards/#comment-642