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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

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To: mngran
The doctor said Mrs. Edwards now has Stage IV breast cancer.

Stage IV cancer of any sort is a death sentence.

81 posted on 03/22/2007 10:40:41 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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To: longtermmemmory

I think that federal matching funds should be banned. Last year, I wrote to about six U.S. senators and 12 U.S. reps. about this issue. I said that each candidate should be responsible for funding his or her campaign, without help from the taxpayers. I hope that no money that I earned was given to Kerry's campaign, and many Democrats hope that no money that they earned was given to Bush. I haven't received any responses.

I'm glad that Edwards is still running. I hope that more Democrats will run. That might cause them to argue during their convention and cause many of them to vote for the Green Party candidate. The last five democrat presidential nominees who had ever been U.S. senators are John Kerry, Al Gore, Walter Mondale, George McGovern, and Hubert Humphrey, and all five of them lost. Next year, if they nominate ex-Sen. Edwards, Sen. Clinton, or Sen. Obama, that Democrat will probably lose too.


82 posted on 03/22/2007 10:40:54 AM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: WesternPacific


Talk about great minds! :o)


83 posted on 03/22/2007 10:41:14 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: Beelzebubba
Odd to want to spend the remaining few years of your wife's life on the grueling campaign trail.

Not if all you care about is political power and money.

84 posted on 03/22/2007 10:41:21 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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To: OESY

Thats just so wrong.....


85 posted on 03/22/2007 10:41:42 AM PDT by JRochelle (RudymccaINrOmney)
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To: Holicheese
Its more of a statement about what Hillary wouldn't do to get elected.

Actually, it's more about you stooping to what we could presume to be her level. Yes, we all know she's ambitious and ruthless.

But we do ourselves and our candidates a disservice when we climb in the gutter with her.

86 posted on 03/22/2007 10:42:45 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://www.virginiaisforrudy.com * http://wardsmythe.com * http://www.rudyblogs.com)
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To: Gumdrop

Worse yet - who's looking out for the emotional well-being of these chidren? What a horrid situation for them. My heart breaks.


87 posted on 03/22/2007 10:42:54 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna)
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To: Arrowhead1952
As for Johnnie boy, you are a classless, lowlife, useless, scumbag, idiot.

LOL! That sounds remarkedly like Al Gore, the heartbreak loser turned Oscar-boasting Nobel-hopeful globe-trotting multimillionaire pop culture eminence, as the New York Times so aptly put it. (I was shocked, shocked!)

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88 posted on 03/22/2007 10:43:35 AM PDT by OESY
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To: mngran

I find it hard to be upset at either of the Edwards' right now.

I remember Arlen Specter, during his bout with cancer, talking about the importance of maintaining a sense of normalcy ... of having something important to do each day.

While I would absolutely take a different path, I'm not going to impugn Senator Edwards' motives at this point. If the presidential process turns into a giant Oprah show, I may reconsider.


89 posted on 03/22/2007 10:43:41 AM PDT by Oliver Optic
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To: DBrow
If he uses the situation to beg for votes it'll be a different story, but for now, I see this as something they want to do.

What do you think he was doing by throwing a presser to announce it? If he'd announced that he was suspending his campaign, as rumor had him doing, there'd have been a point to it. He held that conference for one reason and one reason only - to get the sympathy vote.

90 posted on 03/22/2007 10:43:52 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: mngran

I feel for them - no matter which decision they made, none could avoid wrenching heartache for the both of them.


91 posted on 03/22/2007 10:44:16 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: JRochelle

Just goes to show - worms make their own slime to slither around in.


92 posted on 03/22/2007 10:44:20 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: reluctantwarrior
Edwards has made this political theater for the 10 million dollars in free air time that it represents...

And that justifies our side climbing down into the gutter just exactly...how???

93 posted on 03/22/2007 10:44:28 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://www.virginiaisforrudy.com * http://wardsmythe.com * http://www.rudyblogs.com)
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To: Cold Heat

And in 2012 he might have to run against a sitting Democrat.


94 posted on 03/22/2007 10:44:31 AM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: seanmerc

You've been here long enough to know that you are expecting too much.


95 posted on 03/22/2007 10:45:19 AM PDT by lugsoul (Livin' in fear is just another way of dying before your time. - Mike Cooley)
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To: reagan_fanatic

think Federal Campaign Matching Funds.

end = no money.


96 posted on 03/22/2007 10:45:40 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Corin Stormhands

No, you are incorrect. Would it surprise you if Edwards campaign takes off that Hillary or Bill came down with a terible disease to combat the Edwards cam[aign?
No it probably wouldn't. If it would surprise you, you are a nieve man.

What candidate would this do a disservice too? I think you need to relax!


97 posted on 03/22/2007 10:45:58 AM PDT by Holicheese (I love shrimp and grits.)
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To: from occupied ga
Perhaps they don't want to be victims of cancer, but victors over cancer. Perhaps they see running as defiance in the face of adversity. I think it's courageous. They have all the power and money they could ever want, so maybe something else is at work here.
98 posted on 03/22/2007 10:46:18 AM PDT by veronica ('My 80% ally is not my 20% enemy.' ........Rudy reminds us what Ronald Reagan said.)
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To: MovementConservative

Like I said, I definitely have my political differences with him. I'm just suggesting that we shouldn't presume that this wasn't a completely mutual decision. Perhaps she thought this would be a good way to keep her spirits up, by staying in the thick of the fight. Every person deals with tragedy differently; who are we to say whether the way the Edwards family chooses to deal with it is "right" or not?


99 posted on 03/22/2007 10:46:24 AM PDT by seanmerc
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To: Rutles4Ever

You may be correct. Everyone knows she has a few rough months ahead and that may have hit her very hard.


100 posted on 03/22/2007 10:46:31 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Terrorists are using dim talking points over and over.)
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