Fans of Superman should be familiar with Bizarro World, a square planet called Htrae (Earth in reverse – get it?) where everything is backwards. "Bizarro am sad," would mean that Bizarro was happy. That sort of thing.
Reading that Elizabeth Edwards is catching flak for not disclosing that her husband John was having an affair with filmmaker Rielle Hunter made me think that, perhaps, Earth had become Htrae while I was sleeping. How else to explain the fact that, as CNN put it, "a woman with incurable cancer wronged by a cheating husband," would somehow be blamed for, well, anything.
But that's exactly what happened. CNN reports that, "some former [Edwards] followers have questioned the recklessness of [Elizabeth Edwards] keeping the affair under wraps even though her husband…said he confessed the affair in 2006, before the campaign began in earnest the next year."
Now, if someone wanted to say that this damages their political capital, I suppose I would have a hard time arguing otherwise. On the other hand, how is her not disclosing his affair somehow a worse sin that him having the affair and covering it up? At worst, she was "complicit" (that's Brad Crone's words, described as "a Raleigh-based Democratic consultant") in the "cover-up." But does that mean that Mr. Edwards somehow had some political capital left after the affair became public, and it was doomed by the fact that his wife didn't admit that she knew about it? Typing that sentence actually makes my head hurt, it's so stupid.
image/source: CNN
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