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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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I agree with Rachael and think that unequal hush installments were not only sexist, the distributions were too small. Don't you think $15,000 and $20,000 a month seems measley for the sacrifice Hunter and Young's family were making in their personal lives? Read More...
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Go, Ruth ! In her column in the Post this morning, she says there isn't a wife in the world who doesn't want to slap "99 percent'' Honest John Edwards silly right about now. And on account of the senator's perfidy, are husbands across the land enduring Read More...
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This is rich: Now Hillary Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson, who might as well have an "Is it 2012 yet?'' bumper sticker, is undermining Obama's candidacy by complaining to ABCNews.com that if only John Edwards' affair had come out sooner, Clinton woulda Read More...
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John Edwards is reminding me more and more of poor Henry Cisneros , who was on his way to becoming the Latino Obama before he cheated on his saintly wife, Mary Alice, while she was pregnant with their third child, a son born with no spleen and a malformed Read More...
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Just a couple of questions are clouding my understanding of all this, counselor, and stuff I'd still like to know includes: Was all this going on when you renewed your wedding vows last summer at that intimate backyard ceremony where you wrote your own Read More...
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OK, here's a question: Years before the sex-scandal press conference or the chunky pearls , do political wives see their husbands differently than the rest of us see the mere mortals we promised to love, honor and so on? Obviously, there's no one model Read More...
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At first I was almost relieved to hear that the National Enquirer had finally coughed up some photos because I was starting to worry more about Mickey than Elizabeth; was he going to start marching door to door through America, sounding the luv child Read More...
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Here's the thing: I just do not see you chasing anybody into the men's room in the middle of the night, Emily B . Or you either, Mickey . And believe me, I mean this as a compliment. So, if you wouldn't want all-night stakeout duty outside the hotel where Read More...
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Melinda , I don't mean to sound calloused and insensitive on top of my stated willingness to invade personal privacy, but, notwithstanding how plucky and determined she is, Elizabeth Edwards has inoperable metastasized cancer. Cancer grows, that's its Read More...
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I'm with Emily B that you can feel terrible for Elizabeth Edwards and still recognize the John Edwards' love child story is news. It's especially news since Edwards has always made biography his strongest selling point. I see Edwards as a sanctimonious Read More...
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About a minute into overreacting to Bonnie's completely hypothetical scenario—hello, Elizabeth Edwards is still very much alive!—I see that I may be identifying with her a little too closely, as an oversharing cancer survivor and all. (Plus, my husband Read More...
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OK, Melinda and Hanna , I wouldn't want to have the job of stalking John Edwards either. But so what? If it's true, the National Enquirer story about him and Rielle Hunter is news, absolutely clearly and by any definition I can think of. And if I'd stumbled Read More...
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Bad juju ? The National Enquirer lived down to its tabloid expectations and gave the press a sweetheart of a bone to chew in the weeks before the political conventions. Mickey’s MSM should send them a thank-you note. Rachael is right. The Edwards’ personal Read More...
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Anyway, Hanna , we agree that the Edwards family should be left alone. (And post-Alberto Gonzales, an AG whose biggest problem is a baby ? Sounds good!) My son's question wasn't a hard one as in, "Uh-oh, what to say?' Just sad, as in another person he Read More...
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No, I don't mean cancer should be kept under wraps. I just meant that for a prospective first lady, Elizabeth Edwards behaved more like a 24-year-old blogger. (Here's the link , which someone just sent me). I meant this admiringly; I deeply respect people Read More...
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I don't think it's Elizabeth's oversharing that was the problem! (And you don't mean, Hanna, that cancer ought to be kept under wraps, so as to avoid scaring the grown-ups?) Tonight, my 12-year-old who has been a big fan of Elizabeth's husband since '04—and Read More...
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While we are quoting ourselves today: In December I wrote a profile of Elizabeth Edwards for the New Republic (which for some reason is not showing up online). My main point was that Elizabeth has an overshare problem. In her book, on the campaign trail, Read More...
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OK, Rachael , so how about the selfish reason most of us wouldn't want to be that particular messenger? Unless I trip over a presidential candidate in the Bois de Boulogne some night - unlikely, as I live in Maryland - I am just not that eager to write Read More...
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Sorry, Melinda , I have to disagree, though I do share your sympathy for the Edwards family. I was just reading Elizabeth's touching farewell to Tony Snow yesterday. She told the tale of a gentleman who approached her at a parade and gave her good wishes Read More...
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And guess what? I still don't want to know. If this story about John Edwards is true—and yes, I still say if —I might have to snatch him bald-headed myself. But you know what would be worse? Chasing a man who is out of politics up and down the back stairs Read More...
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