LONG STORY, SHORT:

Friends speak of Elizabeth Edwards (Jenny Booth, 8/14/08, Times of London)

Privately he confessed the affair to his wife in 2006, he says, and ended the entanglement, but the admission came at a critical juncture in Elizabeth Edwards' life. Some weeks later she learned that her breast cancer had returned, had spread to her bones and was now incurable.

In the circumstances, she was left with a stark choice about the future of her marriage as she did not know how long she had left to live, said Mrs Edwards' friend Hargrave McElroy, in an interview with People magazine.

This is supposed to make us feel sympathy, but isn't the take away pretty basic: She was lying to his supporters and party too.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 14, 2008 7:26 AM