Sending out good thoughts
I usually don't talk about work here because, quite honetly, I'd rather shower you with posts about TheBoy and TheGirl. But today's news prompts this exception:I've covered politics seriously for seven or eight years now, and I've never met anyone I openly and actively admired as much as Elizabeth Edwards. She is the real deal, an honest, passionate, strong woman who isn't, unlike her husband or most anyone else you meet in the political world, afraid to let her flaws show.
So let's hope she's not sacrificing her health for her husband's political ambitions and her own belief that he's the best person to be president. Because that would be just like her.
posted by AnnaRay at 3:44 PM
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Nice piece, Blowfish.
I see that I'm the only person so far who has commented on this entry. I think all your fans are into soap opra postings rather than into thought and good writing. (Now you know why everyone loves me.) Please return the Mouse to me. Pig
The news even hit Greece, albeit a little late. Nice post, Anna. I've never met Elizabeth Edwards but I did meet her husband once at the N&O (he seemed like many other politicos, and so did not make any impression on me.) But Elizabeth I've liked from the start, especially because she always seems so powerful and remarkably in control of herself -- and without being artificial, arrogant, or (as you put it) afraid to let her flaws show.
I, too, hope she's sticking it out for her husband for the right reasons. Over here in the land that time forgot, I've grown very tired of watching women sacrifice themselves for the sake of their husbands. And when I look back across the pond to home (via CNN), I also brood that Americans are obsessed with ambition to look out for their loved ones.
Whatever happens, I do hope that we don't see an Ann Coulter column on this. People with rabies shouldn't be allowed to write.
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