How Elizabeth Edwards rewrote the script for political wives. – By Connie Schultz – Slate Magazine

I do not care for these women who think they have a monopoly on what is right and sit in judgement of other women whose marriages have bright public lights shown in dark private corners. To be blunt I do not think anyone should criticize how another person deals with their spouse’s infidelity. Marriage is between two people and no one but them has the right to define what is right and how they should feel and characterize each other.

I find the people who think Bill Clinton wasn’t a good President because he had extra-marital sex to be dangerous simpletons.

I read these commentaries from people who assert their opinion of the Edward’s marriage and of the character of both parties as if their own opinion was fact instead of none of their freaking business anyways and flinch. Just because a whole bunch of holier-than-thou pedestrian nobodies agree with you doesn’t make you ant more right and any less distasteful.

So when the author got to the point about how everyone in the world who wasn’t in the Edwards marriage was in the right to present as immutable fact that Elizabeth was somehow wrong to cast aspirations on the irredeemable whore who target ted her apparently weak-willed and arrogant husband my upper lip twisted. First off, I totally disagree. A woman who begins a relationship with a married man is at best an idiot and, more likely, a selfish and dishonorable slut. A married person who cheats is perhaps a bad mate and definitely selfish but the other woman/man is destroying something that does not belong to them. You want to compete for someone’s affections? Have some class and do it before anyone has a ring on their finger.

Anyways, apart from that glaring bit of baseless judgemental bullshit this author came closer to my image of Elizabeth than any I have seen so far.