Elizabeth Edwards, what say you?

Apparently Elizabeth Edwards has added a chapter to the paperback edition of her autobiography titled "Saving Graces." It seems to reflect the fact that, yes, Mrs. Edwards has known for a bit now about her husband's affair. Look at the shot she appears to take at Rielle Hunter:

“It is hard to describe the test of public life, the way people believe — to some degree correctly — that you belong to them. There are awful examples, of course, of those whose motives are selfish or not admirable, who pry their way into the lives of public people in order to exploit a kindness or a generous gesture. They are to be endured and, to some extent I largely chose to ignore, feared. They remind me of a more malicious version of the people who wandered into our house in Annapolis, walking around our living room, putting their hands on our things. It is a sad fact that these people are a threat to anyone with even the smallest amount of celebrity.”

"Endured and feared"...yes, indeedy.
It's a shot. But you know what? I don't blame Elizabeth Edwards at all for taking it.
I think she hit the target dead on.

Mad at Elizabeth Edwards

Some on the hard left are mad at her, that is. Her husband is one of their favorite candidates. But Mrs. Edwards committed the cardinal sin of criticizing MoveOn.org over their anti-Petraeus ad. So they're mad. And yes, almost scary mad: "So here’s the rule. You never repeat right wing talking points to attack your own, ever. You never enter that echo chamber as a participant. Ever."

Why do I have this feeling that Communist Party cell leaders were saying this kind of thing back in the 1930s.

Such a tough battle for the Edwards campaign

Just ask Elizabeth Edwards--excerpt: "With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama hogging media coverage, campaigns can push their messages without paying for ads. "In some ways, it's the way we have to go," Edwards says. "We can't make John black, we can't make him a woman. Those things get you a lot of press, worth a certain amount of fundraising dollars. Now it's nice to get on the news, but not the be all and end all."

Fact: if a Republican or a conservative whined about coverage and implied it had to do with not being black or a woman, the resultant screaming about latent racism and sexism would be going on yet.