Posted on 03/25/2007 4:55:16 PM PDT by Daffynition
John Edwards says voters shouldn't throw him their support just because his wife has cancer.
"Do not vote for us because you feel some sympathy or compassion for us. That would be an enormous mistake," Edwards told CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview airing Sunday night. "The vote for the presidency is far too important for any of those things to influence it."
Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, who has been diagnosed with a recurrence of breast cancer, defended his decision to remain in the race. She said she couldn't live with denying him the chance to be president.
"That would be my legacy, wouldn't it, Katie?" according to a transcript of the interview with Katie Couric, which was taped Saturday in Las Vegas and released Sunday before broadcast.
"That I'd taken out this fine man from — from the possibility of — of giving a great service. I mean, I don't want that to be my legacy," Edwards said.
After working as a lawyer, John Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina, said this was a chance to give public service to "a country that I love — both of us love, as much as we love our lives."'
They announced Thursday that she was once again facing cancer, only this time it was incurable and had spread to her bone. Despite the prognosis, John Edwards said he would forge ahead with his second bid for the presidency.
Anticipating the demands of the campaign trail, Elizabeth Edwards said her options were clear.
"Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying. That seems to be your only two choices," she said. "If I had given up everything that my life was about — first of all, I'd let cancer win before it needed to."
I had kinda resolved to go a whole week without ripping on Silky but he sure isn't making it easy!
He should put family over power.
He would trade her for a PlayStation 3.
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Pantload.
That she risks her well being for him just breaks my heart.
A woman ought not ever have to make such a dicision, nor should a real man ever accept such a decision by a loved one.
The wife told him to continue. She wants him to, and that is actually a sign of her character. She gets a big + for that.
Wow! NOW I really have to vote for this guy.
I guess Edwards prefers to spend all his time on the campaign trail (with no chance of winning) then spending his time with his dying wife. Johnny Boy is disgusting.
I wish her no ill, but back in 2004 she said that Dick Cheney didn't love his daughter.
Edwards' priority should be to his family.
I'm sorry, but I find this more than a little disgusting. They have two small children. If their children were grown, fine, maybe this whole thing shows determination, given the metaphysical certainty that Edwards will not ever be president. But once you have children, and make such an effort to do so, you owe them your all, in my opinion.
I just heard him say this on 60 minutes about 15 minutes ago. How did Yahoo get the article so quickly? This stinks.
This guy makes my skin crawl....
That's true. Well, she is human and about as consistent as anybody else. She probably still doesn't like Cheney.
The interview was pre-taped and excerpts of the interview were released to the media.
The last thing Edwards should be doing is giving me reasons to vote against him.
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