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Edwards to Continue '08 Bid Despite Wife's Cancer
The New York Times ^ | 3/22/07 | John Broder & Christine Hauser

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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KEYWORDS: campaign; edwards; johnedwards; johnfaggotedwards
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To: mngran

This is horrible!

I feel badly for them. I hope she can pull through, and maybe before too much time a cure will finally be found!


41 posted on 03/22/2007 10:28:34 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: pleikumud

there will be pressure on the person to run even if he doesn't particularly want to

There is for Fred Thompson, yayyy!!!!


42 posted on 03/22/2007 10:28:46 AM PDT by debboo (Stop socialism, vote conservative)
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To: KevinB

My 'disappointment' stems from the news i'd heard earlier today that Edwards was 'suspending' his campaign. Which was an honorable thing to do, if not drop out altogether.


43 posted on 03/22/2007 10:29:00 AM PDT by marsapan
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To: mngran

With the kind of people they are bet you dimes to donuts W called him before Hillary or Obama even thought about it.


44 posted on 03/22/2007 10:29:24 AM PDT by cubstoseries07
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To: WesternPacific

"In his mind he is thinking of the sympathy vote."

I certainly hope not.


45 posted on 03/22/2007 10:29:43 AM PDT by maggief
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To: section9
"John Edwards: Complete Schmuck."

They don't get much more sensitive than that, do they? Maybe he plans on channeling her spirit later.

*Like he did the spirit of the baby in a successful malpractice suit for those who've forgotten about that.

46 posted on 03/22/2007 10:29:44 AM PDT by cake_crumb (When Congress prosecutes wars, you get Another Viet Nam)
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To: mngran

Cancer is terrible. Prayers for her and the Edwards family.


47 posted on 03/22/2007 10:29:58 AM PDT by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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To: mngran

there is no cancer that 'can be managed', she doesn't have a long time to live,and with those little ones!!! Even if she makes it 5 years, the last couple aren't going to be very pretty...I've been through it several times with relatives.


48 posted on 03/22/2007 10:30:09 AM PDT by Jewels1091
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To: mngran


"I had an opportunity to channel what her bone was telling me today.
It told me I should keep on campaigning to be your president in 2008."

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49 posted on 03/22/2007 10:30:59 AM PDT by OESY
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To: mngran

I hope the best for her. Cancer is ugly no matter what stage its in.


50 posted on 03/22/2007 10:31:02 AM PDT by linn37 (Love your Phlebotomist)
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To: seanmerc
I'm sure the Edwards family made a joint decision. I'm not so cynical that I suspect his motives.

I think that's a fair statement. Elizabeth Edwards strikes me as a strong woman that doesn't want her health to be the thing that takes him out of the running. Who knows... she could be *forbidding* him to drop out because of this.

I think it would speak better of him to step out *anyway*, but in the end, it's their lives and their decision to make. I've got way better reasons to dislike Edwards. There's not much substance here.

51 posted on 03/22/2007 10:31:19 AM PDT by Ramius ([sip])
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To: DBrow
I see this as something they want to do.

They can do what they want, and I do not plan to make additonal comments on this thread, or on others, criticizing them -- but I will make one last observation:

Ann Coulter's observation about the 9/11 widows still holds. The Democrats like to be victims. They like to be untouchable. How much would YOU be willing to bet that Jonathan Edwards, during a speech or debate about Health Insurance will not -- tearfully -- remind the crowd that his wife is fighting for her life.

If his campaign continues, I will say no more words of criticism.
If he uses her as a political prop -- he's an a**.

52 posted on 03/22/2007 10:31:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: Spktyr

He is playing the women sympathy angle and his wife is a witting dupe or prop. He will mention her courage and her sacrifice and the need for stem cell research and he will be lionized by the left and the Oprah cult.


53 posted on 03/22/2007 10:32:22 AM PDT by reluctantwarrior (Strength and Honor, just call me Buzzkill for short......)
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To: Beelzebubba

THIS IS NOT ODD!

This is about federal MATCHING FUNDS.

$$$$$$$$$$$$


Follow the money.


54 posted on 03/22/2007 10:32:24 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Spktyr

I am sure his wife has agreed to this. If she wants him to forge on, then we should respect that. She's the patient after all. We all deal with adversity in our own way.


55 posted on 03/22/2007 10:32:36 AM PDT by veronica ('My 80% ally is not my 20% enemy.' ........Rudy reminds us what Ronald Reagan said.)
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To: mngran

No way that she can travel while in chemo. Brutal process. Just as she will start to feel better from a treatment she gets to have the next one. Constant nausea and extreme weakness. If one has a chance of recovery it beats dying but not by much.


56 posted on 03/22/2007 10:32:57 AM PDT by Leg Olam ("Somethings got to go, either me or that wallpaper.." last words, Oscar Wilde)
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To: Holicheese
Whats the over/under that Bill Clinton mysteriously comes down with Nut Cancer?

If Hilliary perceives this as a campaign enhancer I'm sure she will be out looking for an eye of newt, and toe of frog to add to her cauldron.

57 posted on 03/22/2007 10:33:14 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo ("When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!")
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To: Beelzebubba
If I'm him, my wife and I are going on a cruise or whatever she wants. Maybe even enjoy one of his huge mansions rather than drag her through an election or even worse, having to be First Lady and live in D.C.
58 posted on 03/22/2007 10:33:53 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: mngran

Blind ambition. Anyone who wants to be President that bad, doesn't deserve to be President.


59 posted on 03/22/2007 10:34:17 AM PDT by kabar
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To: mngran
His ambition is greater than is his love for his wife.There's a lot of that goin' around in the RAT Party.
60 posted on 03/22/2007 10:35:06 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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