John Edwards Sex Tape?

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by honeychile

No, cancer can definitely mess with your personality. But I doubt that this was John's first trip down the primrose path.

Perhaps she was like that before the cancer.

I'm not a person who thinks "how could you cheat when your husband/wife is sooooo beautiful, awesome, excellent, whatever, full of cancer?"

HAVING a husband/wife is what makes cheating irreprehensible and loserish to me.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Perhaps she was like that before the cancer.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

ETA: Thanks BluPhire. I think it is Game Change actually. I read the excerpt in New York magazine.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by BluPhire

Even if the book didn't come out, I still wouldn't call her classy. I don't know her like that, she's a politicians wife, which means she knows how to play the cameras as well, if not better than the politician.

Wow. Stereotype much?

You know, it's probably worth remembering that she wasn't a politician's wife for the first 49 years of her life. John Edwards didn't become at all politically active, much less run for office, until he ran for and was elected to the US Senate in 1998. The decision to seek office was prompted, at least in part, by the death of their teenage son. Up until 1998, Elizabeth Edwards was pretty much just another lawyer, lawyer's wife and mother. When the 2004 presidential race came around, the Edwards had the political experience of one Senate term.

I'm not disputing what Game Change describes at all. But I am suggesting that perhaps it is a bit unfair to completely dismiss her "classiness" based on the fact that she was a politician's wife and on her behavior during the most recent (and highly stressful -- cancer, affair, child) 8 years without any reference to her life prior to the presidential campaigns.