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When Jenny Sanford dumped her overly weepy, cheating, lying husband Mark Sanford, governor of South Carolina, many people cheered. Some have urged Silda Spitzer and Elin Nordegren, other wives of big shots who were caught coloring outside the lines, to walk away. But when People confirmed on Wednesday that Elizabeth and John Edwards had separated and that it was at Elizabeth's behest, there was much less of that "You go girl!" whooping from the grandstand. John's political foes may be happy with his misfortunes, but for Elizabeth's fans - and she used to have many - the news...
...While John Edwards is probably the least popular man in America right now, it's still hard to see the dissolution of this marriage as anything but a net loss for all parties. Nobody can fault Elizabeth for wanting to get out; news spread of the separation a week after John finally acknowledged the child he had fathered with Rielle Hunter, after two years of denial. But no two marriages are alike, and for various reasons many people were hoping this one might make it. (See the top 10 scandals...
...just about history, either. It's about the future. Unlike Jenny Sanford, whose actions projected the image of a smart, liberated woman about to embark on a fantastic new life, Elizabeth Edwards is fighting Stage 4 cancer. We can imagine gorgeous, heartbroken, alimoneyed Elin Nordegren fending off flocks of suitors with a 9-iron. Elizabeth, on the other hand, will be a single mother with two children in grade school and a life-threatening illness. Downer. (See the top 10 political gaffes...
...revelations in the new book Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (a TIME editor at large), have cast a dark shadow over the public image of both Elizabeth and John. And a forthcoming book, The Politician, by former Edwards aide Andrew Young, is said to be even more reputation-shattering. Is it that John is simply too much of a biohazard to be near right now? Or is Elizabeth just tired of all the tabloid revelations? People sources suggest that even three years after she discovered the affair, Elizabeth never quite found a way to trust John again...
...amazed to read that Bernanke's wife "makes him do the dishes and take out the trash." Perhaps you should have included the corollary that he makes her cook? Or perhaps there is no coercion, but each has accepted certain responsibilities within their marriage. Elizabeth Corwin, BERLIN...