The good folks of Iowa who went door-to-door for John Edwards' presidential campaign in December 2007.
The Daily News has done a read-through of Elizabeth Edwards' new memoir, Resilience, ahead of its May 12 publication date. The write-up is pretty depressing:
Campaign cad John Edwards' cheating ways made his wife, Elizabeth, sick to her stomach - literally.
After the former presidential hopeful confessed his betrayal, Elizabeth Edwards writes in her new book, "I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up."
Edwards goes on to call Rielle Hunter, the amateur videographer and '80s-era party girl with whom her husband had an affair, "pathetic." She says she told John not to run for president when he first revealed the affair to her, in 2006, but notes that he initially hid from her the full extent of his contact with Hunter, saying they had only slept together once. But Elizabeth says she continues to work on forgiving John, writing:
I lie in bed, circles under my eyes, my sparse hair sticking in too many directions, and he looks at me as if I am the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. It matters.
It must be very difficult to have the entire world knowing the sordid details of your personal life. I'm sure it's very, very tempting to tell your side of the story. But still, one wonders why exactly Elizabeth felt the need to write about all this, when she has called health-care reform the cause of what remains of her life. It's not like the Edwards family needs the money. And calling Hunter, who by all accounts is a somewhat disturbed individual, "pathetic" in print is not exactly taking the high road. Sad.
--Dana Goldstein
