There are Unfaithful Politicians

and there are disgusting dirtbags who don't deserve five seconds of public airspace.

    John Edwards is in the later. You don't sleep around on your wife when she has breast cancer. You don't sleep with a married man when his wife has breast cancer. Sure marriages fall apart. Half of them in the country. But there is a line. The French allow open fidelities -to a ludicrous point where for example Mitterand's family and mistress with second family all showed up together, at for instance his funeral.  The current French President Hollande is not married to a woman who has many kids with many husbands. I don't want to know the inter lapping adulteries that may or may not be implicated.

   But there is a line of decency here crossed in the Rielle affair. First of all John Edwards was nothing without Elizabeth.
Elizabeth was a beautiful smart attorney who had a federal clerkship and gave a career to devote to family. She tragically lost a son and the grief she felt with her husband inspired them to create two more beautiful children after she was 50 years old. She could have tried to forge an independent career then- lots of women do at that age- but she rooted herself in her love of her husband and children.  When you are over 50 you cannot conceive without fertility treatments which involve drugs most of the time and that is what likely contributed to her medical condition later. She literally died to give life to children for her husband.
   He betrayed her- with what? With some crystal gazing new agey 'spiritualist' who called him "Hot" in a bar and got pregnant to snag him. She has written a tell all now trashing Elizabeth and everyone should boycott it. It is trash, she is trash and she doesn't deserve anyone's attention for five seconds.  She makes the real skunk-Hos of Jersey look classy.

   Someone wants to play a game with everyone and turn her into the faithful wronged woman who had a love child so should be pitied if not adored with her plastic surgeried pouty fish mouth and exposed long legs. Pity the fool who is taken in.

     Americans may be too prude when it comes to the political sex lives of politicians. The french are more free that way perhaps. But the French wouldn't dare be so disgusting as to involve themselves in a family while the wife was undergoing cancer treatments. There are few things more reprehensible.

Boycott her book.