Edwards to Suspend Campaign (Update: Wife's cancer has returned - Does not suspend Campaign)

The Politico ^ | March 22, 2007 | Ben Smith

[petitfour]

Well, they're rich and powerful. However, after months of taking our daughter to physician after physician who could not explain the pain in her hip and waiting for an MRI of the area that would turn out to show the culprit, everything was done lightning fast. If I had to do over again what happened with our daughter, I would know what to do to speed things up. Anywho, our daughter had an MRI of her spine, and the doc immediately scheduled surgery. He would have had her in surgery within two days except he was ill and did not want to risk infecting our child. As it was, he used to time to put her on meds that would shrink the tumor that was the source of excruciating and debilitating pain. The biopsy was done during the surgery, and a more comprehensive biopsy was done within the week.

[maica]

Edwards insisted she felt no pain beyond the cracked rib that first alerted doctors to her relapse earlier this week.

"You can see -- I mean, I don't look sickly, I don't feel sickly," she said. "Right now, we feel incredibly optimistic."


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Elizabeth may be an intelligent lawyer, but right now she is a human being in the first stage of grieving. Denial.

She looked sickly to me, and the pain of a cracked rib is a severe pain.

[Mo1]

Thanks for the info

[Arizona Carolyn]

and all these spinners on FOX tonight are saying: This will get John Edwards the female vote now instead of Hillary....

[Txsleuth]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_el_pr/edwards_mistake

The Politico.com site screwed up!!! LOL

[Mo1]

CBS News, which has a partnership agreement with Politico, posted the report on the CBS Web site without doing its own reporting, and later corrected it, a spokeswoman said.

Is Dan Rather working for Politico also?

[Rheo]

The Politico, a Web site with a companion free tabloid distributed in Washington, began in January with many respected political journalists. It was founded by John Harris and Jim VandeHei, longtime Washington Post journalists.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200510130007

In an October 13 Washington Post article, staff writer Jim VandeHei reported as fact an allegation in great dispute -- that former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV was sent to Niger in 2002 "at the suggestion of his wife," former CIA operative Valerie Plame

Not sure it means anything...found it interesting.
Off to bed....thanks Mo, Txsleuth;Bahbah and all for the great job you do for those of us who don't/can't.

[Txsleuth]

I don't know...he very well could be.

I don't know if you have noticed...but it seems like Hugh Hewitt has had at least one of the "reporters" from Politico on his show every night...for the last month or so.

I think HUGH either believes or wants us to believe they are a non-partisan news site...which it ISN'T.

[Miss Marple]

Who is Hugh's contract with?

[bvw]

Every marriage is unique, but still -- the rigors and disturbances of a Presidential Campaign is not the kind of care 99.99999997% of cancer patients will do anything but get worse on. Edwards digs a quicker grave for his children's mother with this ridiculous and mean decision. He is now paired with Micheal Schiavo for entry in the Grand Ledger of Marital Compassion. It shows no common sense or good judgment, just deadly bravado.

[cgbg]

Elizabeth may be an intelligent lawyer, but right now she is a human being in the first stage of grieving. Denial.

I carefully watched the video clip and read most of the comments here. I agree with you that Elizabeth is in deep denial.

The body language between her and her husband was very interesting and rather complex.

Here is my take:

They are both ambitious and want Johnny in the White House very very badly.

They view the world as a series of obstacles to their White House quest--the Hillary wall, the Obama entrenchment, the Republican hurdle, and now the health thing.

Our role in this little plan is to be lied to and duped to the best of their ability.

The problem with liars is that they tend to lie to themselves as often as they lie to everybody else.

So, yes, this is denial, but it is part of a pattern of self-deception that we see in these hypocritical Democratic political families. ("Two Americas", "I am on your side"...)

The good news for Elizabeth is that her positive attitude and fanaticism for public glory for her and her husband will give her a great temporary high.

Unfortunately for her the crash in her health and the crash in her husband's fortunes may occur simultaneously, and at that moment she will deserve our sympathy--because in the end we all die alone.

[Tax-chick]

Statistically ...

[Netizen]

You still out there. See 698.

[maica]

I agree with you completley, especially that liars lie to themselves. She and he will both deserve our sympathy. I just hope he does not get some kind of sympathy vote at the inopportune time that puts him in the White House.

On a lighter note, the very idea that John Edwards is capable of performing as POTUS is one of the biggest lies he has ever told himself.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Why don't you just give them a break today?

Since Edwards has announced that not only is his wife's cancer worse than thought, but that his campaign will continue on....Do you think that I still need to give them a break?

[MonTinaGirl]

I do, because we cannot know for certain what motivates people to make the choices they make. Mrs. Edwards may have insisted that he continue on. She may not want to spend what's left of her life watching television and sipping tea. I'm certainly no fan of Edwards. I'm just hesitant to judge another's heart, especially when I'm busy thanking God that I don't have to watch a spouse suffer with terminal cancer.

But bash away if you must.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

No bashing intended or desired...Just wondered if you still felt, given the information that we now know, that I was being harsh in wondering if his wife's illness was the true reason behind the then rumored cessation of his campaign. As this thread is about his political life not his personal life, I felt it a legitimate question to pose.

Have a good weekend.

[MonTinaGirl]

Well, lots of people are questioning that. You're not exactly all alone out there. ; )

You have a good weekend, too.

[Netizen]

I'm kind of thinking along the same lines as you. They mayh ave decided to continue for the time being and take things as they come. He can always drop out later. They may have felt that it was best for them to remain busy for the time being.

[Nowhere Man]

Prayers up for Mrs. E and for Tony Snow as well.