Posted on 03/22/2007 12:19:05 PM PDT by bmweezer
I’m not sure what I think about Edwards staying in the race. Like him or not, he and his wife seem like a happy couple and it is clear that her desire is to see her husband become president, regardless of her circumstance. If the two them feel that he can remain a candidate for president while she is taking care of herself, then so be it and on that, we should not judge. However, I guess that I am more concerned about how the announcement was made and for what reason. My personal opinion is that for something like this, John and Elizabeth Edwards should have gone on a talk show (think Larry King, as much as many of us dislike him) and announce in that forum that the cancer had returned but that it would not derail his campaign. How it was announced - with much fanfare (lack of a better word, sorry) and with massive buildup took the form of a campaign rally and that imo is rather disturbing. Throw in an earlier leak that stated that her cancer would cause an end to his campaign (back to that massive buildup thing again), and you have something that doesn’t look as sincere as it should have looked. Such is modern politics, I guess.
Im sorry for Mrs Edwards but the whole things smells of a publicity stunt.
Its tough and obviously not a good thing for their family. Its also hard to see how he's not attempting to use this to further his campaign (I know thats terrible to say).
We conservatives are supposed to be nice and all that. Our opponents are the ones saying the world would be better if our Pres and VP weren't 'there'. If the liberals win they will accept the terrorists with open arms. They will destroy our ability to defend our country.
So I say to heck with being nice, we are fighting for our childrens lives. After all, just do it for the children.
I wonder how hard it is to find a doctor when you've fraudulantly sued hundreds of doctors, using junk science and parlor tricks to sway the jury, and generally causing the decline of OB/GYN services for all women in your home state.
I hope that $100 million is worth the bad karma.
Sometimes it's hard to be the Breck Girl
Getting called the F-word by that Blond
When they show malice, towards your Tar-Heel Palace
There's just one way to face the strife
Hide behind your wife
Show the whole world her illness
they won't think you're phony
when you're the Silky Pony
Hey if it works for Sanjaya.....why not Edwards. Sympathy vote. : )
Might as well get it all done at once.
What do you bet if her cancer really proves to be incurable that he sues the doctors for not having recommended a full mastectomy back in 2004?
ROFL!
Good to see a little humor here.
The news about E. Edwards is not all that bleak. There are new drugs for breast cancer evolving every day. She may yet get to enjoy five to ten more years in her elegant mansion.
No need to worry that E. will be "alone" while Breck Girl is out campaigning. I'm sure that gazillion-dollar mansion will be fitted with all kinds of servants, plus private nurses, nutritionists, fitness coaches; nannies for the kids, tutors, cooks, maids, and gardeners.
Elizabeth Edwards will go out in style.
It's a Stage IV and maybe on her lung.
That sounds pretty bleak to me.
Edwards and his handlers have been watching too much American Idol. They learned how the sympathy vote can keep an underdog in the race, no matter how inadequate that person may be.
As a sister of a breast cancer survivor and the daughter of a pancreatic cancer victim, I pray Mrs. Edwards beats this dreadful cancer. It's a shame that I have to question the motives of her husband when it should be all about her, not him.
In some situations, the only left to do is to laugh.
Sorry for barking at you the other day. :-/
pinz, I love you. All is forgiven.
;)
I wish her well. Her chances aren't great, but some women with this stage cancer do live for years.
I agree. With all her past treatments, etc., shouldn't the cancer be working on her third breast by now?
I smell something fishy.
:-)
My husband had cancer several years ago....we have learned to laugh and count our blessings each day.
We don't know what was said between the two of them. She may have insisted he continue. I won't judge him based on what is known now.
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