Credit where it's due-lessons learned?

[babylonsister]

NYT: Elizabeth Edwards Apologizes to Clinton

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Elizabeth Edwards, wife of White House hopeful John Edwards, apologized to Sen. Hillary Clinton after saying her choices in life have made her happier than the senator, a Clinton aide said Friday.

Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson said Elizabeth Edwards called the New York Democrat on Friday night just after she finished a debate in Rochester, N.Y., against Republican challenger John Spencer.

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Before the apology, she released a statement Friday evening disputing reports about the event.

''Unfortunately, large portions of the material released by (Ladies' Home Journal) as quoted statements by me were erroneous and nearly all the statements, either because of significant omissions, or editing, or error, give a misimpression about what I said,'' Edwards said. ''This is particularly true with respect to my comments about Sen. Clinton, who holds a serious and demanding public office while I am largely home, joyfully I must admit, with two lovely children.''

Edwards also said she has ''great respect'' for the senator.

Asked for specific examples of errors, a spokeswoman for Edwards' One America Committee said the magazine's transcript combined answers to two questions into one quote. Also, her comments about being joyous referred to previous experiences and were not meant to be a contemporary comparison, said the spokeswoman, Kim Rubey.

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[Mass]

1. Good for her - I wished she would do the same thing for Kerry.

But I guess the Clinton PR machine is more powerful at this point.

[JI7]

2. you have to love this part

<''This is particularly true with respect to my comments about Sen. Clinton, who holds a serious and demanding public office while I am largely home, joyfully I must admit, with two lovely children.''>

more of the "i'm just a regular person" stuff.

one problem with it is that there are a lot of parents out there who would love to be at home with their kids but can't be because the have to work to get by and pay for basic needs.

[Mass]

3. It is how they think they will win - playing the regular folks.

BTW, she has been a bankruptcy lawyer for most of her adult life. She stopped working when she had the two little ones (period where her husband was campaigning for Senator, then president).