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Well said, PL101.
I liked John and Elizabeth Edwards. I still do. John fucked up big time on a big stage and he's going to pay the consequences for it.
I enjoyed Justin's story about Rielle's background, but I was surprised by the variety of reactions from Salon readers to it.
Rielle, as presented by Justin, seems to be a like a lot of people I know. She did a lot of the same kind of stuff many of us have done (booze, drugs, parties, sex), then channeled her energies toward more creative and enlightening endeavors. One thing lead to another, then -- boom -- here we are reading and commenting.
I'm baffled by the fact that a good deal of the commentary here seems sanctimonious and oddly derisive. The hostility is hurled multi-directionally, aiming randomly at: John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, Justin Jouvenal, and even Salon itself.
Compared to the moral outrages and international crimes that have been committed by the Bush crime syndicate over the past seven and a half tortuous years, the Edwards/Hunter affair should be regarded as, at most, an inconsequential curiosity to those of us who aren't immediately involved in the situation.
