<p>I just heard on the news this AM that Elizabeth Edwards is suing Young for “alienation of affection.” She gave him several conditions to meet (donate $ to foundation named for her son, stop talking about the Edwards marriage, return voice mails she left him that he has been playing in interviews, etc.) and then she will withdraw or not file her suit. </p>
<p>This is ridiculous, to blame someone else for the failures of your H.</p>
<p>I don’t think she’s blaming him. She’s taking the necessary steps to shut him up somewhat! I agree with her action.</p>
<p>No one in that mess is a saint. I agree with MOfWC - right now this guy looks like he is trying to profit from airing other people’s dirty laundry. Yuck. I feel that his book and interviews just keep pouring salt on the (still) fresh wounds of everyone involved. Every time talking heads on TV start yakking about the Edwards’ mess, I change the channel.</p>
<p>Yes, it was different when she was pimping her own book.</p>
<p>Billy - as I said, there are no saints in this mess. The keyword here is “other”, like in other people’s dirty laundry.</p>
<p>It is all a sorry mess. I do feel very badly for Elizabeth Edwards in her situation with her husband, and that it is all very public as well. </p>
<p>I have mixed feelings though about her trying to go after Andrew Young, even if I understand her desire to shut him up. She got to tell her side of the story in a book (I don’t blame her…again, I feel very sorry for her). I feel Andrew Young got bamboolzed by Edwards himself. I thought it was VERY odd that he was willing to take the fall and claim paternity of Hunter’s baby to cover up for Edwards being the true father. I thought at that time, what married man would be willing to say he fathered a child out of wedlock when he truly had not (even if his wife was in on the cover up)? I mean he had to make himself look badly in public, all in the name of helping Edwards with HIS cover up. At this point, this guy has some valid complaints of how he was handled in trying to cover up for Edwards and obviously no longer thinks well of Edwards. Yeah, he could shut up. Then again the entire case is public AND he was asked by Edwards to PUBLICLY claim paternity. Edwards made Young be very public in a false way and now Young is setting the story straight. In the meantime, yes, it is not favorable to the Edwards. </p>
<p>I don’t blame Young. </p>
<p>The blame for ALL of it is on John Edwards.</p>
<p>I think they all figured that Elizabeht Edwards would be long gone by now. It’s a sad, sad story. I’d be in jail had it been my husband.</p>
<p>BunsenBurner, while you are right that it is “other peoples’ dirty laundry”…the fact remains that John Edwards made Andrew Young publicly become part of the dirty laundry and to make himself sound like an unfaithful husband when he wasn’t. Andrew Young was part of the public story as a “favor” to Edwards. He wasn’t just quietly watching this story. So, he deserves to set his OWN record straight. He went above and beyond for Edwards in a public fashion.</p>
<p>He’s definitely “involved” and a sleazebag, but a piker compared to his former boss.</p>
<p>I have tremendous sympathy for Elizabeth Edwards when it comes to the tragedies she has suffered - the lost of a child and recurring cancer at a young age. As far as her marriage woes - I struggle with sympathy in that department. She was playing an edgy, limousine liberal game being married to a guy who was making a ton of money and living in a gazillion-square foot house - all while running for office on his sensitivity to the poor. Why was she surprised when the duplicitous nature of it all affected her private life? </p>
<p>Elizabeth Edwards was an active participant in the game. You can’t buy into that kind of stuff as a lifestyle, and then complain when it comes back to bite you in the backside. I have no problem with the lawsuit, however. I think it is entirely appropriate for everyone in their little group to spend lots of time litigating against oneanother.</p>
<p>Andrew Young is cashing in on the only thing he has to cash in on now. His career is ruined. He bet the farm on John Edwards becoming President/VP or Attorney General. He thought Edwards would bring him along and take care of him. He has a family he needs to provide for and he’s providing. I saw the interview of him and his wife and I felt sorry for them. I feel sorry for Elizabeth Edwards but I think her ambition got the best of her too. She, of all people, should understand how manipulative her husband can be and that ambition can be deaf, dumb and blind. </p>
<p>I blame John Edwards - RIP</p>
<p>Andrew Young has serious need for money–to pay for lawyers, etc. Why sue him?!</p>
<p>There are times when people file premptive lawsuits to shut them up. Elizabeth Edwards and her children deserve peace while she fights her final battle. And needless to say, she is fighting this battle on her own.</p>
<p>I have fought the breast cancer battle, as have many on this board. I wish us all (not just breast cancer survivors) health. I give Elizabeth Edwards a wide swath. Imagine knowing that your time here is so limited and that you are facing the end alone. And knowing that the life you led, the confidences you shared, and the love that you gave was fiction because your partner was a philandering s*** who was/is waiting for you to die so that he can remarry his mistress to the tune of the Dave Matthews band.</p>
<p>I think that both John Edwards and Andrew Young are pond scum and it will not bother me at all if they are both miserable for the rest of their lives.</p>
<p>John Edwards betrayed his wife, lied about it, and was willing to risk betraying the Democratic party and thus, possibly, the electorate of this country – all in a cover up for his own ambitions. Good thing the *National Enquirer *clued us all in.</p>
<p>Andrew Young did not “have” to do the bidding of John Edwards. He made a choice – perhaps for his own ambition, to ride JE’s coattails into DC, perhaps for money. But he could have just said “NO!” His wife Cheri gets no sympathy from me, as she was a co-conspirator IMO. They sold their integrity for a comfortable lifestyle. Now they are trying to make their money from another route, selling their inside story, complete with recorded phone messages and retrieved sex tapes. Not classy IMO. </p>
<p>Edwards and Young deserve each other.</p>
<p>Rielle Hunter is not talking to the media at the moment. Ironic that she should be behaving. at least for the moment, with at least some decorum (perhaps under orders from Edwards). But she went after another woman’s husband, and apparently also lied about her ability to conceive. John was a fool to take the chances he did with her – but he got his natural consequences.</p>
<p>Elizabeth deservedly gets lots of sympathy, but I am disappointed that she enabled her husband and tried to deceive the country after he confessed the affair to her. I no longer admire her, as I once did.</p>
<p>Well, that’s it for my vent re this cast of characters. Life is a soap opera.</p>
<p>jyber, thank you so much for posting - that’s exactly how I feel about this soap opera. Andrew Young is an adult, and no one has put a gun to his head to make him do things that he’s done. He was free to walk away, but chose to stick around and play JE’s game. JE is dead to me, too. RIP.</p>
<p>I feel very, very sorry for all of JE’s children.</p>
<p>^ Yup, we agree. I feel bad for all the kids, who have to deal with the fallout from this and will be able to read all the gory details at various points. I understand (but know not how reliable the source) that the eldest, Kate, has not forgiven her father for his actions. The kids do have all my sympathy.</p>
<p>The whole story is so absurd as to be farcical. If we had seen it on a TV movie years ago, my bet is we would have been condemning the plot as ludicrously far-fetched. </p>
<p>“All the world’s a stage.”</p>
<p>I remember at the time that Young claimed paternity and others said that was false and a lie. I was gullible because I could not fathom a man who would say he had an affair and fathered a child while married if he really didn’t. I just could not imagine any willingness to take a public rap like that and tarnish one’s image for no wrongdoing. I thought for sure he must then be the father. </p>
<p>When it all came out later that he wasn’t the father but made an agreement with Edwards to lie and say he was the father of Hunter’s baby, I thought how odd that was. I can’t ever imagine agreeing to do that to save someone else’s butt. </p>
<p>So, you are right…he could have said, “no, I’m not playing that game.” </p>
<p>Still I put the blame on the whole mess on John Edwards. </p>
<p>(by the way, I have no problem that they are rich and had a mansion while working toward issues with the poor…you can be rich and still be an advocate for the less fortunate)</p>
<p>I also feel very sorry for children in cases like this but even more sorry when they are so public. </p>
<p>And I still feel sorry for Elizabeth. Added to that, the public nature of it all. Sad for her.</p>
<p>Yup, soozie, I’m with you on the mansion thing - Bill Gates’ house is not exactly a shack, but look what his family and his foundation have done!</p>
<p>What woman in her right mind would enable her husband like that? Going along with blaming Young for “siring” that baby, knowing all along that it was her scumbag husband who was the father? She’s as bad as the rest of them, IMHO.</p>