Elizabeth Edwards on CSpan right now!

[beaconess]

Check this woman out - you'll be impressed!

[spooky3]

1. finally she arrived and is speaking!

[beaconess]

2. She's great, isn't she?

Did you hear her say, "Oh,my bad!"

[spooky3]

3. She is very good, as he is, at sounding like your next door

neighbor.

Very interesting that she is talking strategy with the women.

[spooky3]

5. I also found her very amusing for saying

"ok, is there anyone here who DOESN'T know that John is the son of a millworker, first to go to college in his family, etc." so that she could then get into what she wanted to talk about.

She is fanTAStic.

[overground1]

4. She's certainly no Jackie Kennedy. She's a bit homely for a man like him

How long until infidelity stories start bubbling up, you think?

[spooky3]

6. that's an offensive thing to say and illogical to boot.

[overground1]

8. so you think someone won't "drudge" up a story?

It's neither offensive nor illogical. The woman is no Jackie Kennedy. That is just an obvious fact. She married WAY up. You can't deny it.
When you have a guy as good looking as Edwards with a wife as homely as his, then you are bound to have infidelity rumors, and people will likely believe them. That's not illogical at all.

[beaconess]

10. John Edwards has been around for a while and there's not a hint

of scandal or an iota of evidence about infidelity. They can start all the rumors they want to, it won't stick.

Moreover, given Edwards fierce devotion to his family, I wouldn't want to be the one who tries to start a rumor about his fidelity. They'd get their asses handed to him - he'll eat them alive for screwing with his family.

[spooky3]

12. it is offensive to comment on wives' looks. It is something

we see at FreeRepublic and has no place here. It is sexist to value a woman primarily on the basis of her physical attractiveness rather than her intelligence, personality, achievements, and talents.

It is illogical to argue that, because a woman is not as attractive as Jackie Kennedy, that her husband might stray, because Jackie's attractiveness obviously did not keep her husband from straying. That ought to suggest to you that the reasons men and women stay together are far more complex than physical attractiveness.

Did I make it simple enough for you to get? I have chosen not to raise the question of whose business it is if either of them has no affairs or a thousand.

I've alerted the mods. Perhaps they will be more liberal in their views as to what is sexist and offensive than I am.

[overground1]

15. the question is if others especially in the gossip media or GOP will do it

We can sit around here acting as "un-sexist" and "un-looksist" as we want, but it won't stop the rest of the world from being so.

[beaconess]

7. That's ridiculous

Are only supermodels entitled to fidelity from their husbands?

Shame on you for even raising this.

[overground1]

9. I'm not saying one way or another, but you know how the gossip media works

[beaconess]

11. No, the gossip media works just like you're doing

by trying to start some mess by pretending to ask an innocent question.

[overground1]

13. I ask 'cus I think they'll do it - they even call him the "next Clinton"

[spooky3]

14. why don't you stop posting and listen to Elizabeth.

That's what I am going to do now.

[rumguy]

17. give it up - Edwards will destroy Bush

ha ha

[beaconess]

21. I don't believe that's why you asked

If you really believe that Republicans are chomping at the bit to attack him fidelity issues, his wife's looks are irrelevant.

This is one of the issues that we don't need to flesh out on our side in order to stave off Republican attacks. It's smarmy and tacky and has no place in this discussion.

[AP]

16. She's great looking, especially considering she's 53.

And she was totally hot when she was young:

http://www.JohnEdwards2004.com/image.asp?id=12

[rumguy]

18. is that JRE with a 'stash in the photo?

[AP]

20. Yep.

[overground1]

22. yes, it seems she was good looking when she was young

but it also looks like she hasn't kept up so well with John. I'm not saying she's approaching Barbara Bush territory or anything yet...

[AP]

24. She's three year older. I'm sure a President Edwards will catch up with...

...her.

[beaconess]

23. He still looks pretty much the same as he did then

But I wonder how he would have held up if he had given birth to four kids, one within the last three years.

[AP]

25. "She's no Jackie Kennedy" -- WHO IS???

Who can't see that this woman is formidable. Wasn't she great?

[beaconess]

26. Jackie Kennedy wasn't even Jackie Kennedy

[AP]

19. Heads nod when people talk about Edwards's ideas.