Edwards Exploited Son's Death, Not Coulter

[Def Conservative]

For those of you attacking Ann Coulter for bringing up John Edwards' son's death, some perspective:

From Front Page News Edwards' public success spotlights son's death

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Used it again at the end of 2003 in his own piece, Four Trials

Scroll down to the bottom.

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Running for his son: Teen's death changed Edwards' life

Here is the Edwards press machine making it an issue in 2004, acting as if they are finally opening up about it...but they were on record as talking about it in 2001....

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Here again, in 2005, Edwards pretends he's finally opening up about his son's death in a Chicago Tribune article:

Throughout his campaign for president and then vice president in 2004, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina made it clear that the death of his teenage son in a car accident was off-limits, not for discussion in a political context.

But now his wife, Elizabeth, has sent an e-mail to supporters voicing a connection she shares with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. As Sheehan was camped near President Bush's Texas ranch, protesting the war, Edwards called on her own family's backers to support Sheehan.

And, in a departure from a campaign-trail silence that the Edwardses kept about the death of their 16-year-old son, Wade, Elizabeth Edwards noted that Sheehan's son, Casey, 24, died in Iraq eight years to the day after her own son.

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Here the Edwards are again in 2006, using it with Oprah and her dimwitted audience:

Book saves memory of son, Edwards tells Oprah ******************* Here's John again, finally opening up about his son's death (HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU FINALLY OPEN UP!?!?!?)

Edwards Opens Up About Son He Lost

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The Edwards campaign site loves to bring it up also:

A Tribute To Wade Edwards

Here again,The Story I Am

Here, the Edwards' blog suggest the way to honor their dead son is to vote for John Edwards: Here again,Getting Young People To Vote

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Its funny how Wade Edwards manages to make it into the political arena whenever John Edwards is running for something....

[griswold3]

Sell those books, Ann.
Maybe you’ll get an HBO special like Maher.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Edwards is a disgusting phoney. Not only did he exploit his son’s death, he did it again recently with his wife’s cancer. Once an ambulance chasing trial attorney.....Well, you get the idea.

[Dreagon]

Yesterday was hilarious. Is he going to sic his mommy on the next mean commentator that hurts his feelings?

If he can’t deal with Ann Coulter himself, how can he deal with the likes of bin Laden, Chavez, or the rest of their ilk?

[cripplecreek]

I suspect a lot of people are really upset over her comment about Frd Thompson.

[GOPJ]

bttt

[mjp]

It's OK for Bill Maher to say it but not Ann Coulter?

"If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot," Coulter said Monday, picking up on remarks made by HBO's Bill Maher. Maher suggested in March that "people wouldn't be dying needlessly" if Vice President Dick Cheney had been killed in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan.

[steve8714]

People who get upset over her comments have too much time on their hands.

[cripplecreek]

People who get upset over her comments have too much time on their hands.

Gotta agree there.

[Inspectorette]

Must have missed it - what did she say about Fred?

[cripplecreek]

She called him “our Obama”.

[muawiyah]

Mrs. Edwards and Cindy share several other characteristics as well. For one they’re both moonbats.

[meandog]

I’m no fan of the Breck girl, and I agree that he’s appeared to use his family's tribulation to advance himself but Coulter’s remark about him displaying an “Ask Me About My Son” bumper sticker on his car is out of bounds. Coulter hurts more than helps conservative interests with her strident and acerbic tongue. She's fast becoming the Michael Moore of the Republican party.

[indcons]

Coulter is right on this issue. BUMP

[indcons]

Interesting. I can see why the FRedheads would be upset. Sen. Thompson is no madrasa-educated, America-hating muslim. His middle name ain’t Hussein either.

[007girl]

“If he can’t deal with Ann Coulter himself, how can he deal with the likes of bin Laden, Chavez, or the rest of their ilk?”

He can’t deal because he’s such a FAG! Oh crap, guess I’ll be hearing from Mrs. Fag! :]

[quark]

Or howzabout Al-gore using his sister’s death in 2000 to trumpet the evils of “big tobacco?” Hmmm...a pattern on the part of the Socialists in the ‘Rat party.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Coulter’s remark about him displaying an “Ask Me About My Son” bumper sticker on his car is out of bounds."

I never heard what Coulter supposedly said about the son - is this it? It sounds more like a comment about Edwards than about the son. But I agree that Coulter is often counter-productive.

[Inspectorette]

Well, she's a Duncan Hunter fan, and while I agree that Duncan would be a great president, he just doesn't have the numbers.

Fred can WIN (hopefully he'll pick Duncan as his VP).

[stm]

I missed that one, what did she say?