Posted on 03/22/2007 10:15:46 AM PDT by mngran
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 22 _ — John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat, said today that his wife’s cancer had returned, but that his bid for the presidency “goes on strongly.”
“The campaign goes on, the campaign goes on strongly,” he said, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side.
Mr. Edwards said he learned earlier this week that the cancer had reappeared in his wife’s rib cage and that the couple recognized that it was no longer curable, though it could be managed with treatment.
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Are you an oncologist?
Surely you didn't mean he's not qualified because of his wife's cancer.
Presuming we need a candidate for whom Politics isn't their life, as evidenced by less than 6 years in the Senate I suppose, who on earth are you supporting?
Obama? He's the only candidate I can think of who's life isn't intertwined by politics.
Good question.
At what level of responsibility should an employer be allowed to terminate an employee with a terminally ill spouse?
Should that be among the qualifications to be hired?
"At what level of responsibility should an employer be allowed to terminate an employee with a terminally ill spouse?
Should that be among the qualifications to be hired?"
Hard decision...i'd say, no, you cannot terminate an employee with a terminally ill spouse.
My prayers for this lady. No one deserves this.
Still, I wonder how long it will be before Hillery announces that Bubba has breast cancer?
I agree. He probably steamrollered over any opinions she might have had, which no doubt would have made her feel even worse than she already did. I see in her stance a defeated woman who has just been dealt the ultimate blow (the cancer returned) and has not been supported by the one who should be her protector and champion. She knows she is going to have to go through the worst alone and have to be strong for her children. I am so sorry for her. Money and power are no substitute for true love.
I've noticed that too.
I've also noticed FR's moral arbiters criticized Rudy as morally flawed for NOT running.
Now Edwards is criticized as morally flawed for running.
I guess morality has a large political component to it.
I don't know if he steamrolled her opinion. Maybe his decision to keep campaigning is just a form of denial. It might be easier to focus on running for the White House than to sit at home and face your wife's terminal illness. Regardless, I wish Mrs. Edwards the best.
>>>let's ask this question; So Edwards won the presidency. Where's his mind going to be as president when his wife is living her last days?
That's why your supposed to divorce them before resuming the campaign. 8^)
Probably pretty low, nut cancer is only 1% or so of male cancers.
If you're betting, I'd go with butt cancer.
Myself, I'd prefer he gets neither and lives a long life, but to each their own.
Are you?
Not really enough for you to claim you "know all about it." Since cancer is the number on killer of folks under 70, a great number of people have had similar experiences from the patient viewpoint I can claim a couple of relatives who died from it too, but I actually learned more about it in terms of therapy, prognoses, and staging from a course in oncology I took years ago, but I'd never claim to know all about it.
I know enough to know that Stage IV is unrelieved bad news, and that she'll most likely be dead in two years or less, and that if Edwards chooses to pursue his presidential ambitions instead of spending time with her I'd judge him to be a jerk (kind of like Newt, whom I know is a jerk).
To become President, Hillary would scrafice Chelsea to Zorcom the Space God!
Am I what?
Since you weren't there, nor were you a party to this decision, isn't your post a bit presumptuous?
What would you expect from a lawyer?
Ok folks, I'm not an Edward's supporter, but I do have a mother who was recently diagnosed with a stage IV cancer. While I wanted to turn my life upside down to stay with her and help her. It seemed very important to her that I resume the normal activities of my life. Perhaps the same is true with Elizabeth Edwards. Perhaps she needs him to continue so she won't feel like her situation is hopeless. I've learned the hard way that the psychology of all this is very very tricky. They are the only ones that get to decide what is appropriate and what isn't.
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