Re: Elizabeth Edwards's statement from The Daily Kos (NBC)

That may happen. He did NOT tell her about the late-night hotel meeting in
LA two weeks ago!

Bill L.


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People's lives are complicated. Forgiveness comes easy to some, less
quickly
to others.

But once--just once--I'd like to see the philanderer tossed out on his or
her
ass.

--Fr. G.


Today
by elizabethedwards
Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 04:40:51 PM PDT

Our family has been through a lot. Some caused by nature, some caused by
human weakness, and some ­ most recently ­ caused by the desire for
sensationalism and profit without any regard for the human consequences.
None of these has been easy. But we have stood with one another through
them
all. Although John believes he should stand alone and take the
consequences
of his action now, when the door closes behind him, he has his family
waiting
for him.

John made a terrible mistake in 2006. The fact that it is a mistake that
many others have made before him did not make it any easier for me to hear
when he told me what he had done. But he did tell me. And we began a long
and
painful process in 2006, a process oddly made somewhat easier with my
diagnosis in March of 2007. This was our private matter, and I frankly
wanted it to be private because as painful as it was I did not want to
have
to play it out on a public stage as well. Because of a recent string of
hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture
falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly
alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter could no
longer be wholly private.

The pain of the long journey since 2006 was about to be renewed.

John has spoken in a long on-camera interview I hope you watch. Admitting
one¹s mistakes is a hard thing for anyone to do, and I am proud of the
courage John showed by his honesty in the face of shame. The toll on our
family of news helicopters over our house and reporters in our driveway is
yet unknown. But now the truth is out, and the repair work that began in
2006 will continue. I ask that the public, who expressed concern about
the
harm John¹s conduct has done to us, think also about the real harm that
the
present voyeurism does and give me and my family the privacy we need at
this
time.




.

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