Wow. John Edwards is an idiot. His wife has a limited amount of time left, and he wants to blow a significant portion of it campaigning away from her (because she won't be able to travel while getting treatment).
Dunno. With his money, and Fred Baron's private plane, she may well be able to maintain a treatment regiment on the road.
Edwards' sense of what's important in life is obviously defective. In any event, there is no way he will be elected president. As Ronald Reagan said, if the people want you to be president, they'll let you know - there will be pressure on the person to run even if he doesn't particularly want to. This does not apply to most of the currently announced candidates.
I was trying to refrain from being a smartass today considering what his poor family is going through, but it now sounds like he's milking the sympathy vote.
So, John Edwards is still a d*ck. His poor wife and kids, them I'm praying for.
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.
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.
Agreed
I would venture a guess that even the dumb @sses over at DU would agree that this is a bad move, a dumb move and very callous and selfish move on Edwards' part.
He had no chance at all to begin with, but to try and campaign with this going on seals it - the very fact that he would try means he's not fit to be the President of the United States of America
Plus, Edwards ought to know that he has almost zero chance of getting the nomination.
Unless he's delusional, which I'm beginning to think he is.
He may think he'll get sympathy vote out of this, but he should spend this time with his wife and kids and if he wants to, try again in 4 years.
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.