Posted on 08/22/2005 7:00:42 AM PDT by Undertow
Throughout his campaign for president and then vice president in 2004, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina made it clear that the death of his teenage son in a car accident was off-limits, not for discussion in a political context.
But now his wife, Elizabeth, has sent an e-mail to supporters voicing a connection she shares with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. As Sheehan was camped near President Bush's Texas ranch, protesting the war, Edwards called on her own family's backers to support Sheehan.
And, in a departure from a campaign-trail silence that the Edwardses kept about the death of their 16-year-old son, Wade, Elizabeth Edwards noted that Sheehan's son, Casey, 24, died in Iraq eight years to the day after her own son.
For John Edwards, who voted as a senator to support the invasion of Iraq, his wife's outreach to subscribers of their One America Committee Web site bears a distinct anti-war voice that could augur a new tack for Edwards as he prepares for a potential run for president in 2008.
"The president says he knows enough, doesn't need to hear from Casey's mother, doesn't need to assure her that Casey's is not one small death in a long and seemingly never-ending drip of deaths, that there is a plan here that will bring our sons and daughters home," Elizabeth Edwards wrote in her e-mail last week. "He claims he understands how some people feel about the deaths in Iraq. The president is wrong."
The Edwardses left questions about the e-mail to spokeswoman Kim Rubey, who said, "When Elizabeth read about Cindy Sheehan and her son, she immediately felt a strong personal connection."
Rob Tully, a Des Moines lawyer who campaigned for John Edwards in 2004, suggests that Elizabeth Edwards' battle with cancer since the election has given her an added perspective.
"She has gone through her own life-threatening experience, and that is life-changing," Tully said.
Wasn't Edwards against the war before he was for it? (Or something like that.) There should be a barf alert in the title!
Whats good for the goose....eh Former senator....??
further exploitation of the dead....
"But now his wife, Elizabeth, has sent an e-mail to supporters voicing a connection she shares with Cindy Sheehan.."
They're both liberal traitors.
Edwards is a loser, he doesn't have a prayer of winning the dem nomination in 08, forget him.
Funny, but I don't recall him applying the same to Cheney's daughter.
What idiots!!! HE HAS ALREADY MET WITH HER!!!
"John Edwards, who voted as a senator to support the invasion of Iraq"
Someone else for voted for the war before he voted against it.....what was that other idiot's name.....someone who served in Vietnam....had Cambodia seared, seared into his memory.....
When the going gets tough, turn tail and run like the dickens.
A lightweight who promised last year to terrorists everywhere, (Forrest-Gump drawl) "We will destroy yew"...
"Do I dare disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
Regards, Ivan
"My son died too...look at ME!"
(after carefully testing the political winds with a spit-moistened finger)
I see the Edwards have gone from chasing civilian ambulances to chasing military ambulances...
John Edwards is the shame of North Carolina. Don't ever do that again you tarheels, ever!
Now our former Senator wants to exploit the death of his own son!?!
This is beyond words. Sheehan, Edwards, Baez, Liberals in general make me physically ill. Seriously.
Liberal Hallmarks: Hypocrisy and Fantasy.
My favorite Edwards line was when he promised that, with stem cells, he would raise Christopher Reeve "up outta his wheelchair..."
The Edwards aren't any more intelligent or likeable because of personal tragedies. If anything, tragedies make you grow and change. Their own tragedies haven't resulted in any transformations. They're still the same selfish, hair-combing, blissfully ignorant lefties they always were.
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