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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Stage IV cancer of any sort is a death sentence.
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.
Talk about great minds! :o)
Not if all you care about is political power and money.
Thats just so wrong.....
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.
Worse yet - who's looking out for the emotional well-being of these chidren? What a horrid situation for them. My heart breaks.
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!)
.
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.
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.
I feel for them - no matter which decision they made, none could avoid wrenching heartache for the both of them.
Just goes to show - worms make their own slime to slither around in.
And that justifies our side climbing down into the gutter just exactly...how???
And in 2012 he might have to run against a sitting Democrat.
You've been here long enough to know that you are expecting too much.
think Federal Campaign Matching Funds.
end = no money.
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!
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?
You may be correct. Everyone knows she has a few rough months ahead and that may have hit her very hard.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.