Posted on 03/22/2007 10:15:46 AM PDT by mngran
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 22 _ — John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat, said today that his wife’s cancer had returned, but that his bid for the presidency “goes on strongly.”
“The campaign goes on, the campaign goes on strongly,” he said, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side.
Mr. Edwards said he learned earlier this week that the cancer had reappeared in his wife’s rib cage and that the couple recognized that it was no longer curable, though it could be managed with treatment.
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Or sending Bill a huge tub of radiated Erection Cream!
Use 7 times per day for Pornstaresque erections!
There's a lot of that goin' around in both parties.
I do too, but if my wife was in the same situation, there is no way I could be away from her.
OMG! She looks so tired already. Prayers for her.
As for Johnnie boy, you are a classless, lowlife, useless, scumbag, idiot.
No Bill will develop rare male breat cancer so as to really cover both demographics......and I'm not kidding.
It's called Testicular Cancer and its most common in men between the ages of 15-34. At his age, Bill Clinton would more likely be at risk for prostate cancer.
That said, as a seventeen-year survivor of testicular cancer I find your post in poor taste.
There's nothing funny about cancer, no matter who it strikes.
Yeah, that was kind of creepy. She looked like some low-level employee who just got fired.
Very tragic. I wish her great physical and spiritual comfort during this difficult time.
It may indeed be none of our business; but when a man has a wife with a terminal illness, and three children (two are still very small), then I would think his main concern would be for the wife and for the kids. These kids need to have attention from their parents as they are also going to be under extreme distress, IMHO. Just who is going to be the care giver for the children with the dad running around campaigning for an office which he will never get anyway. Elizabeth Edwards is not only going to be worrying about her children, but going to treatments which will debilitate her and cause weakness and fatigue.
Who's watching the kids???
Especially when in an interview a few months ago Edwards said the only thing that would make him drop out of the presidential race was if his wife got sick again.
Bargaining is not an adult way of dealing with tragedy. Edwards' priorities should be his family, but he apparently has other grandiose ideas.
This is the same man who was willing to put every obstetrician in NC out of business by presenting junk science to illiterate juries. He appears to be not interested in the public good, just what's good for himself.
Mr Edwards,you're wife,at this crucial life threatening time,desperately needs "HELP IS ON THE WAY".PLease help her and put yourself on the backburner for a while.
Its more of a statement about what Hillary wouldn't do to get elected. I apologize if you took offense but its more about Hillary than a real person that actually had Cancer.
No doubt he hopes to trade on the sympathy vote.
You can't change a leopard's spots; he's an ambulance-chasing, pandering opportunist.
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Lots of that going around these days.
Edwards has made this political theater for the 10 million dollars in free air time that it represents, this will run for at least the next three news cycles and larry king and oprah will do at least three shows on it spread out over the next few months.
Cancer is not funny, politicians using cnacer as a shill for their craven ambition is laughable in a pathetic kind of way.
Having experienced a very close relative die of cancer, I feel that this is a very unwise decision on Edwards part. If the cancer has recurred in her rib cage, it will metastasize fast if it has not already. She will need him now more than ever. My prayers go out to her.
That could be the emotional toll. It's heartbreaking to see anyone - much less a relatively young mother - suffer with this. Maybe it was a trick of the camera angle, but it looked like she was standing five feet away from her husband. It was like she was an afterthought to Edwards' insistence that the campaign would continue.
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