Elizabeth Edwards, Rielle Hunter, and 'Cherubim'

I can understand why Elizabeth Edwards would be sniping at Rielle Hunter. I can understand why she'd be angry with Andrew Young.

From the New York Daily News:

Former presidential candidate John Edwards is said to be ready to admit that he fathered a love child. But Hades may have a skating rink before his wife, Elizabeth, signs off on such a confession.

As a grand jury in North Carolina considers whether Edwards misused campaign funds to cover up the scandal, Elizabeth still can't abide his former mistress, Rielle Hunter.

Word is Elizabeth vehemently opposed the plan, now in place, for Hunter and daughter Quinn to move from New Jersey to Wilmington, N.C., where the Edwardses have a beach house.

For months now, Elizabeth, who is said to be talking to a divorce lawyer, also has been sniping at Hunter - painting her as a blackmailing gold digger - in blog comments where she uses the pseudonym "Cherubim," according to a source who knows Elizabeth.

Though "Cherubim" has recently described herself as an African-American woman, the source insists, "It's Elizabeth. She's used 'cherubim' as a password. Look at the gravestone of their son Wade: It's an angel holding a boy."

"Cherubim" has also heaped scorn on estranged Edwards aide Andrew Young, who is working on a book in which he's due to reveal that Edwards and wealthy supporters paid him to claim that he fathered Quinn.

In a proposal for the book, Young contends that Elizabeth blamed him for helping her husband carry on the affair and forced Young to quit the campaign. He also alleges that Elizabeth left taunting messages on his family's answering machine - telling his wife, Cheri, that Rielle supposedly had slept with Young and that she was likely to again.

If the allegations are true, this "source who knows Elizabeth" isn't a very good friend to reveal that "Cherubim" is the pseudonym she's been using to post blog comments.

It's also not cool to reveal that Elizabeth uses "cherubim" as a password.

What a mess!

I'm in no way defending Elizabeth Edwards' alleged lashing out on the Internet or on the family answering machine of Andrew Young.

She'd be wise to stay away from the ugliness of the Internet and not waste her precious time.

So many people let her down. So many people in her life behaved selfishly -- most of all, her husband.

I don't know how John Edwards can live with himself, knowing the pain he's causing his wife as she struggles with her illness.

It's disgusting that Andrew Young is choosing to write a book now about the whole sorry saga. Doesn't he have any pangs of guilt for trying to profit at the expense of the Edwards family?

If Elizabeth did blame Young and if she did leave taunting messages on the answering machine at his home, can't he understand why she'd be acting a little nuts at the revelation of her husband's betrayal?

The players in this drama are so sleazy, John Edwards being the sleaziest.

Elizabeth Edwards may have flipped out inappropriately here and there but there's no question that she's the victim.