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Her comment in an article in 2003 about all the democrats exploiting family tragedies for votes was that if Edwards wanted to claim credit for not bringing up his son’s death as a campaign tactic, he should probably put away the “Ask me about my son’s death” bumper stickers. She didn’t say he had a bumper sticker on his car saying “ask me about my dead son”. She noted that he wore his son’s “outward bound” pin on his shirt. People would ask him “what’s that pin”, and he would probably say “It’s a reminder about my son, who is dead”. If you wear a pin of your dead son’s, isn’t that like having a bumper sticker saying “ask me about my dead son”?

Come on...any parent, dirtball lawyer or not, suffers when a child is killed. And despite whether or not she meant it as a joke or political criticism such a written remark is crass, out of place, and cruel. Ann's mouth and pen often overload her otherwise keen brain. She's fast becoming an embarassment, IMO, in much the same way that Jimmy Carter is now regarded as a dottering old fool by reasonable-thinking Americans. So don't waste your time defending her to conservative leaning libertarians such as myself as it would be akin to defending someone such as Michael Moore or Larry Flynt to moderate Bluedog Democrats.

She said that losing a child was a tragedy, and in fact made the point IN THAT ARTICLE that everybody would agree that it was a tragedy when anybody lost a child, and that it was silly for politicians to act as if their loss was an especially qualifying trait for office.

A politician telling you how important their views are shaped by their dead child are essentially saying “look, I have a dead child, my opponent doesn’t, so I have something to offer that they don’t”.

Kind of like McCain telling us that unless we’ve been a Senator and taken a bribe we have no moral authority to discuss campaign finance reform.