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Odie Hugh Manatee
Sad to hear this. RIP Elizabeth and best wishes to her kids.
I got it to load but then again, I’m almost always loaded.
M. Bouffant
Works here. Testing a comment now.
JGabriel
Condolences to Elizabeth Edwards friends and family.
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lol
Fuck John Edwards.
MikeJ
It’s not just you! https://balloon-juice.com looks down from here.
JPL
Elizabeth was a great communicator who was able to tell stories with empathy and love. Years ago she spoke about the parable of the mustard seed, the Chinese version, on the NewsHour when talking about her son Wade. Her book Saving Graces also mentions this parable. Every household has grief and happiness, it’s how you choose to live that counts. While listening to that show, she taught me the value of empathy. Thank you Elizabeth.
Allan
I think the series of tubes is temporarily overwhelmed with a flood of bitter tears from Leftblogistan.
qwerty42
Sad to hear about this. I thought she had a bit more time.
Elizabelle
A loss for her family, and for us.
She had a lot she wanted to say about a just society, and making healthcare and opportunity more widely available.
Not a long enough life, but one well spent.
rdldot
Too young. RIP. I was never that impressed with John Edwards but I did appreciate his Two America’s take on things, and also impressed that he kept emphasizing it even after 2004. No other politician even bothers. But I was really thinking that Elizabeth was the one who should have run, and would have voted for her in a heartbeat.
The Grand Panjandrum
RIP. Condolences to her family and friends.
R-Jud
RIP. Those poor kids.
Elizabelle
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/lessons-from-elizabeth-edwards/?ref=us
S. cerevisiae
Damn. Condolences to the family.
Phyllis
My kind of broad; tough, plain-spoken, and infused with the quality of grace. Blessings and condolences to her family.
South of I-10
I feel terrible for her kids. Cancer sucks.
KDP
Dignified, intelligent, compassionate. A sad and tragic loss. Although I am saddened for her young children, I hope they can eventually gain solace from having had the opportunity to say fare thee well as their mother’s spirit left this earth.
Having lost my own mother in an automobile accident when I was 7, I dealt with my loss by blocking every memory of her. I hope that Elizabeth’s children were well-prepared to accept their coming loss and will carry treasured and loving memories of her throughout their lives.
helper monkey
You are just getting the metafilter effect:
http://www.metafilter.com/98298/Corexit-Blues
It has sunk many a site…
Elizabelle
Obit from the Charlotte, NC Observer.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/12/07/1894481/elizabeth-edwards-dies.html
“The couple were crippled emotionally by Wade’s death. John Edwards stopped working for six months, and Elizabeth quit practicing law for good.
They left their son’s room unchanged for years, a capped, half-finished bottle of Gatorade left on the bedside table along with his papers and an 11th-grade textbook.
Elizabeth Edwards would read to her son at the gravesite at Oakwood Cemetery and lie down on his grave to be close to him. The couple continued to invite their son’s friends over for dinner every Tuesday night.
“The intensity of that pain is greater than any emotion I ever had,” she would write in her memoirs. “Not love, not fear, not wonder. The greatest of all is pain.”
Wade’s death changed the arc of the Edwardses’ lives. They found religion, began a second family in midlife and changed careers from law to politics.”
cathyx
I’ve not been able to get on this site until now. I’m glad it’s back up. I’d rather do this than the thousand other things I have to do.
Tim I
Very sad about Elizabeth Edwards. I fear for her children, who have been through so much. I wish the entire family all the best.
About the site, it’s been a total drag all day. When it would load at all, it took forever, the same with bringing up the comment threads. I think you’re just too popular, Cole.
Jules
I’ve been having problems loading the site all day, but now it seems to be loading nicely.
soonergrunt
@lol: You know, just because somebody has an affair, doesn’t mean that he/she stops loving the person they cheated on. It doesn’t mean that they don’t continue to feel pain for that person’s pain, pride for that person’s accomplishments, or any of the other things that people who’ve been in each others’ lives for a long time feel for each other.
I don’t know if you were trying to be funny, given your name here, but you failed utterly. And if you were saying that from the heart, well, I’m not sure what kind of damaged soul does that.
JenJen
@Elizabelle: Oh, my. That family has been through more turmoil and tragedy than most of us can even begin to imagine. It’s all so heartbreaking.
My thoughts are, of course, with her surviving children. It’s just wrenching to think what they’ve already gone through, and the pain that they must still endure.
gypsy howell
@Elizabelle:
I really don’t know how you ever get over something like that. I hope I never find out.
A very dignified lady, who had to find a way to live through some awful things in her life.
Rest in peace
lol
@soonergrunt:
Yes, people who cheat on their cancer-stricken wives usually have their spouses’ best interests at heart.
Is that you Newt?
SixStringFanatic
My condolences to her family and loved ones. All of them.
And how depressingly unsurprising that it took four comments, four!, for someone to be an asshole on this thread.
SixStringFanatic
@lol:
This is really neither the time nor the place to have that discussion. Please show some civility. Pretend if you have to.
Mike Kay (Team America)
Obama’s hippie punching must have finished her off.
benjoya
she was a good, smart, dedicated person. RIP.
SiubhanDuinne
So sad. When I heard the news this morning that her doctors were saying further treatment would be unproductive, I thought and hoped that she might have a few more weeks if not months. RIP to Elizabeth, and deepest condolences to her family. Yeah, everyone in her family.
Tangentially related, is Tweety an idiot or what? As he was tossing to Norah O’Donnell to do the EE story, he was all “Norah, what are your feelings about her death? What did she mean to you?” etc. Goddammit, Tweeters, it’s *not* about what anyone in the media fucking “feels” about it.
Anya
This is so sad. Her two kids are so very young, my heart goes out to them. Her eldest daughter is in a situation now where she’s gonna be not only the older sister, but a mother figure to her siblings. I hope they are comforted by memories of a joyous time and they have a loving and supportive family and friends.
Elizabeth Edwards was not a saint but she was an amazing woman. She may rest in peace. I hope she left this earth with a peaceful spirit.
Anya
@Mike Kay (Team America): This is a tasteless comment. Shame on you!
JenJen
@SiubhanDuinne: Even worse? Tweety invited Mark fucking Halperin, of all people, to share his thoughts on Elizabeth’s death. Yes, the same guy who sold many, many books in part because of the horrific caricature he drew of Elizabeth as a malevolent, bitter, unattractive, borderline-hysterical woman who drove her own husband away.
I’m always turned off by Halperin, but today’s appearance, given the timing and circumstances, was an outrageous display of poor taste.
robertdsc-PowerBook
RIP. May the Infinite guide her on the next stage of her journey.
SiubhanDuinne
@JenJen #34: I can’t begin to tell you how glad I am that I got home too late to catch that segment. If I had seen it I daresay there would be thousands of pointy shards of TV scattered around the room thanks to the heavy blunt object I would have lobbed at it.
Halperin, ptui!
moe99
@soonergrunt:
Hey soonergrunt, I feel the same way about John Edwards. Having an affair is an act of rage against the marriage. I know it well.
Right after my ex was elected to public office, he had an affair. The day after he was sworn in (the 3 kids and I went to the state capital for the proud moment), he told me he wanted a divorce. Swore up and down there was no one else. I found the damning emails to “Beth” in Nashville on the family computer a month later. The divorce was finalized two days before our 19th anniversary.
Now I have lung cancer. I only ask that he be barred from my funeral. And he’s a state wide office holder. Asshole. Fuck him.
I adored Elizabeth Edwards for her steadfastness and her devotion to her kids and to her marriage until it was impossible. John is not worthy to kiss her feet.
Dennis SGMM
Godspeed, Elizabeth.
Ash Can
Sad news. And such a shame that her family didn’t have her through the holidays. I hope the kids have a strong support system. My heart goes out to them.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
She’s not really dead if we find a way to remember her.
Linda Featheringill
@moe99:
I am so sorry to hear of your trouble and your ill health. I hope you have a lot of time and lots of comfort and fun. And if you don’t have a lot of time, take your comfort and fun wherever you can get it.
Hugs. [[ ]]
SiubhanDuinne
@moe99 #37: I am so sorry for your pain. I wish you the kind of grace and peace that Elizabeth Edwards exemplified, and a loving group of family and friends through the challenges as well as the joys.
moe99
Thanks, Linda and SiubhanDuinne. I have a good life and don’t manifest this anger much at all these days. But Elizabeth’s death is so close to my own situation that I reacted pretty viscerally to the news. She was a very smart and very classy woman.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/12/elizabeth-edwards/67668/
Yutsano
Until the Next Dimension, old friend.
Cain
@moe99:
I’m really sorry to hear about what happened to you. Nobody should have to go through that kind of betrayal. I hope that you have your lung cancer under control.
My uncle recently was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but they caught it very early, he’ll be operated on next week and he’ll be coming out of it as a diabetic.
I will be glad to see fuck you to this year as it has been the suckiest in memory. Good riddance, 2010.
cain
Jim, Once
@moe99:
That’s a lovely, lovely piece of writing by Fallows – I think Elizabeth would appreciate that as much as anything written about her. And to you, Moe, all my very best wishes. Isn’t it interesting what we manage to make of our lives in the face of something we thought we’d never be able to deal with?
http://miceinfestation.org
I am sad for her and her family that she passed away and had to suffer for so very long, she undoubtedly deserved far better, being betrayed by her husband all through her darkest hour. Quite sad situation.