According to the Encyclopedia Mythica, in Jewish and Christian religion Cherubim are second in the order of angels, directly after the seraphim. They were usually depicted as angels with four wings and four faces (human, lion, bull and eagle). Artists in later times made them appear as the chubby, rosy-faced, winged infants of which they are known today.
Four Faces. Hummmmmmm . . .
Every time my blog-battle-hardened heart softens and I give serious thought to cutting Elizabeth Edwards some blogger-slack (partly because I genuninely feel sorry for her, but mostly because I'm just tired of all the baby-mama drama), something happens to give me pause.
This morning it was this article in the NYDaily News. It is alleged (and the allegation is refuted in the comment thread) that Mrs. Edwards has been blogging anonymously under the pseudonym of "Cherubim" . . . spewing vitriol & scorn upon Reille Hunter and all enemies of John.
I would not be surprised if this is so. I seem to recall encountering this Edwards-loving persona in some blog-battle somewhere before (can't remember where).
Timing is everything. Having given up on the local newspapers, I spend a fair amount of time over on the Raleigh News & Observer's story boards . . . where it has recently been alleged that the persona, "NSimms", is actually Elizabeth's sister, Nancy Anania (Anania is their maiden name).
NSimms' modus operandi is to enter a thread and zero in on one of the commenters criticizing Elizabeth or John . . . usually provoking an exchange in which any substance that the thread may have had (these days such threads are over-whelmingly and scathingly critical of Edwards and his two-faced shenanigans) quickly deteriorates into an ad-hominem-filled pissing-match. I myself, have been so ensnared. As a result, the entire thread is deleted by the N&O's comment police.
It's called strategy.
For all of the rhetoric employed by the Edwards web-based machine during the never-ending Presidential campaigns (not to mention the fawning of Sue & company at Converge South), I've never had much use for the notion of Elizabeth Edwards as a real blogger. I mean, where is the blog?
Of course, Elizabeth was never a fool. Why bother blogging, when you have the platform and can sell your story as a lesson in resilience? Tragedy and pathos sell - and she's had plenty of both.
As for the blogging bit, Mrs. Edwards played a lot of people for fools back in the day. Those of us who were skeptical were called "wack-jobs". And maybe I was a little wacky - for now it seems I may have underestimated her and some of her inner circle.
And somehow, disguising as an angel with four faces seem apropos.
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In The Bible, I believe Christ is quoted as saying " Let The Dead Buried The Dead" and not worry about the Edwards nor that continuing Soap Opera. The only sure spritiual thing coming for John Boy is doing a little time with the Devil and the Beast.
I suppose it would be easier if there were still not footprints on my head.
Where John is concerned, I'm a big believer in redemption. Whatever he can do to make Elizabeth's life easier, he should do. To a point.
And that point is his new baby daughter who is NOT an "it" - a daughter that he should acknowledge and help care for, and be the kind of parent that he apparently was for his first two kids . . . if notsomuch for three and four.
That being said, there also has to be contrition and pennance.
I haven't seen it.
I believe that Elizabeth Edwards is a very powerful woman and has been the push behind John who lost the election. She trashed him when he was unable to put her in the White House. She said nothing untill he lost.
There a lot of things swirling around the more-local gossip & rumor mills that do not paint Elizabeth as a Mother Teresa . . . but more like a Lady MacBeth.
The truth, of course, is somewhere in the middle.
Again, for people supposedly so interested in the cost-effective, ethical delivery of healthcare . . . and who were arguing that more government intervention could do it better . . . the Edwardses sure blew off this constituent (who could've used the help of the "most accessible Senator ever").
Alas, my story-of-woe (in the very kind of public-service program they were advocating) did not fit the agenda.
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