Disappointment

I know I am among millions but I am quietly, sadly, deeply disappointed by John Edwards.  He seemed to me to be the perfect candidate….working class family background, educational bootstraps step-up in life, effective lawyer, family man with devoted wife….  And I thought he was sincere and maybe he was.  As Mae West said, “I used to be Snow White…and then I drifted.”  But this is more than that.  Elizabeth Edwards is a woman I look up to.  When we lived in NC, I twice heard her on the radio, once I even sat in the car in a parking lot to hear the end of the interview with her.  She is a woman with a huge heart and amazing dedication.  If I understand correctly, she underwent fertility treatments knowing she could one day experience cancer.  She gave birth to Emma Claire and Jack and now has the terrible disease….I believe “living with cancer” is the term.  She stumped for her husband….and now we learn that when he told her of his affair, she felt she did not have the time left in her life to separate from him and work things through.  Because of her disease, she had to come to terms with the infidelity right quick.  She had to decide that her 30 year marriage was worth saving in spite of a blonde party girl who had come into the picture.  She had to value her family and the enormous sacrifices she had made for it and forgive her handsome, winsome Johnny.  Elizabeth Edwards is on my list of sheroes and always will be.  John Edwards is toast.