Defining Perfect Down

Elizabeth Edwards has a book coming out and is therefore making the media rounds. Her appearance on Oprah was rather surreal:

"If you take that piece out, I do have a perfect marriage."
--Elizabeth Edwards on Oprah.

And except from head to toe, I am Gina Lollobrigida. (Yes, am feeling retro today.) Excuse me if I seem flippant, too, but I just watched a woman claiming to be Elizabeth Edwards tell Oprah and all of us out in TV Land that it's immaterial to her if her husband made a baby with his mistress, and the whole thing was kind of surreal. "Completely extraneous to my life,'' is how she put it.

Still, she slapped the nameless blond around pretty good. (Nameless because the one condition placed on the interview was that Rielle Hunter's name would not be spoken. The Voldemort clause, I guess. "This person,'' is what Elizabeth called her.) And of her husband, John Edwards? "No one's perfect,'' she said. That is one lucky son-of-a-mill-worker.

I'd like to feel sorry for her, what with her health issues and all, but it's become pretty clear that she went into the 2008 campaign fully aware of her husband's problems and was more than a willing accomplice in keeping it all secret. It was all about power.

With her delusions of what a perfect marriage is, any money spent on her book would be wasted.