John Edwards opens up about son he lost

AP/Yahoo ^ | 3/29/07 | Nedra Pickler

[Qwertrew]

He needs to stop talking...this is going to backfire on him.

[conservativeharleyguy]

When I was in high school, we had this one poor kid who was just a schlub. He was pathetic. He looked goofy, he was a geek, and tragic stuff was constantly happening to him.

He got laid all the time. He always got "sympathy sex".

Even from smart, pretty girls who should have known better, and probably hated themselves afterward (`cause he always bragged about them).

I can't tell you how many of them, when we asked them why they let him do it, said "I just felt so sorry for him".

That's what John Edward's electoral legacy will become.

The really slimy "lawyerly" thing is that of course, it's all calculated.

[Brad from Tennessee]

"I want to feel like I've done everything I can to serve, whatever that turns out to be." ---John Edwards

This sleazy little shyster spent years suing obstetricians and hospitals using junk science--later disproved--to convince juries that failure to perform cesarean sections on delivering women caused cerebral palsy in their babies. Edwards amassed more than $100 million as a personal injury lawyer.

As Ann Coulter writes in GODLESS:

"As a result of such lawsuits, there are now more than four times as many cesarean sections as there were in in 1970. But curiously, there has been no reduction in babies born with cerebral palsy. All those cesareans have, however, increased the mother's risk of death, hemorrhage, infection, pulmonary embolism, and Mendelson's syndrome, while also driving up the cost of medical care. . .those "little guys" John Edwards claimed to represent are having a lot more trouble finding doctors to deliver babies. Insurance companies are getting out of the medical malpractice business and doctors are getting out of the obstetrics business. . ."

[nfldgirl]

...a bedroom...

for the hired help, no doubt.

[bad company]

Really? I didn't know that. How old was he?

It was a daughter "Pauline" She was three and she died of leukemia.

[dforest]

Another Edwards pity party for votes. Gag!

Join all other Americans, Mr Edwards, those who you certainly show no pity for.

[DainBramage]

How does he know a gust of wind blew him off the road?

[TC Rider]

Hmmm, no mention of how the Edward's eventually handled the loss of their son.

How that once the 'perfect' family of Mom, Dad, Sis and Bro was destroyed, John decided to start over.

Sis was sent away to school, Mom was sent to the fertility clinics where she eventually was able to replace the older siblings with two younger, more photogenic kids.

I've not heard anyone speculate on whether the fertility treatments involving high doses of hormones may have precipitated the cancer.

[andysandmikesmom]

Her name was Pauline Robinson Bush, but she was called Robin..her death led Barbara Bush to become involved in working with the Leukemia Society for many years...

[Fiddlstix]

Here we go again. Democrat pity party.

[PzLdr]

Did he pull the Clinton Lip Quiver(CLQ), [pat. pend.]?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I wouldn't vote for Edwards in a million years but after seeing him and his wife on 60 minutes (why do I watch that show? I don't know) I felt that they were honest and real on this one issue. Especially her but even him.

I feel that I can despise him for the trial lawyer parasite, demagogue, false populist, clinton hack that he is, but not belittle him or his wife for their decision on what is, in the end, an intensely personal matter.

[pleikumud]

He is doing just that, but he doesn't stand a chance of winning the White House, thankfully.

[mimaw]

So in order to serve, his immediate thought was to become president of the United States. To hell with wasting time serving his community raising funds for say cancer or even being involved in parents groups focused on keeping our children safe. No Mr. Edwards with his ambulance chasing background thinks he's qualified to run the free world.

[Names Ash Housewares]

I think that not a lot of people know about his lost daughter and is evidence that the Bush family views service to country in an entire different light that someone like Edwards.

Bush 41 would not brag about his military service as a pilot in WWII or let others do so either during his failed re-election campaign against a draft dodger. Drove me nuts at times. It was just not his character to exploit things for political traction where others had died.

OR think of Kerry constantly going on about being a vietnam vet, totally exploiting it for every single iota he could squeeze out of it.

[LYSandra]

Gosh Elizabeth's cancer gained me traction let's see what my dead son will do! Shameless Libs!

[Cicero]

This ambulance chasing pig should stop using his family for political purposes. Frankly, it's disgusting. You're not pushing a bleeding heart jury to give you a big injury award, you jerk.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Edwards is desperate. He knows that he will lose, but wants to get the wussy-face women's mags to start with the teary-eyed sympathy thing.
No sympathy for a cutthroat "trial" (suing) lawyer.

[Lizavetta]

Next up on the campaign trail......

.....the Breck Girl will share with us how he lost a puppy when he was a child.

[synbad600]

I was wondering that myself. Assuming that is what happened, was he driving in a hurricane? How hard does the wind have to be blowing before a vehicle can be compromised? What factors are involved? I honestly don't know.