UPDATE: John Edwards: ‘The campaign goes on strongly… We have no intention of cowering in the corner’… Developing…
POLITICO: Getting It Wrong…
Elizabeth’s Cancer Is Back
The cancer is treatable, but not curable…I see his campaign as a waste of precious time..he hasn’t a chance of winning this!
I am not positive, but I would think so..I wish Elizabeth the best:
The couple planned a news conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., to discuss their plans Thursday, a day after visiting doctors who are monitoring Mrs. Edwards’ recovery from the cancer.
Campaign officials refused to answer any questions about what the couple learned at the doctor’s appointment or how it might affect Edwards’ second presidential bid. Edwards had cut short a trip to Iowa to be with his wife but still attended a barbecue fundraiser Wednesday evening in Chapel Hill, their hometown.
The campaign had said Mrs. Edwards, 57, had a follow-up appointment Wednesday to a routine test she had Monday. The campaign explained that she had similar follow-ups in the past but they always resulted in a clean bill of health.
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More power to him.
He’s not my first choice but he’s a fine man who’s endured the loss of a son, the illness of his wife, and the aspersions of that transgender lunatic Ann Coulter.
I say “go John”.
Isn’t that cute, he’s going for the sympathy vote.
Yeah, Edwards is a swell guy! He made his millions by suing others…that’s just so inspiring! Then of course as a Liberal and a Democrat he’s supposed to care about the environment, that’s their mantra after all. But then he clears a forest to make way for his mansion. He didn’t just remove some trees. They clear cut. Why, it would have made a greedy capitalist Republican envirodestroyer blush, the way it was done.
And I recall Edwards going into prophet/preacher/faith healer mode when he pontificated that if John Kerry were elected the crippled would rise out of their wheelchairs.
Just another lying, self-centered pos, imo. The kind of jerk that is bringing this nation down.
And Bush’s family made their “millions” selling the common man down the river to the Saudis.
What is wrong with you people?
The man’s wife is dying. You’re beyond contemptible crossing the line to just plain vile.
It’s called personal fortitude and courage… something you cynics would recognize if it bit you in your collective asses
What does his wife’s condition have to do with Edwards himself? That’s right, NOTHING!
At least we don’t wish harm and ill health on people, like the Left does.
The man’s wife is dying. You’re beyond contemptible crossing the line to just plain vile.
What line was crossed? Did they expect everyone to think the decision was wonderful? They made it our business by announcing it, btw…
I think John is banking on the sympathy at this point. He blew any chance he had.
You are right, she is dying, and i can think of many things that are far more important than politics..
re #6 What line was crossed?
The common human decency line.
Beyond that;
Do you have any evidence to suggest that Edwards’ response to such a possibility would interfere with his duties, or is this just a “gut” feeling you have?
Certainly a decided lack of native intelligence hasn’t stopped Mr. Bush from flushing the good name of this country down the crapper.
Some perspective:
Woodrow Wilson lost his wife Ellen in office, during World War I, and still managed to bring the war to an end, negotiate a peace treaty, grant citizenship to Puerto Ricans, and support the 19th Amendment. (He even found time to date and remarry!)
I couldn’t (nor would I) take on a political job (takes a certain self-abusive quality I think) but, on the other hand, I don’t have a cabinet or a team of secretaries and advisors to share my responsibilities. He’d have a strong network of people who can help carry some of the load for him if need be.
If you oppose him on his record, or his position on issues, that’s fine. But it’s presumptive of you to pass judgement on how much responsibility he can handle.
I suspect, knowing the character of the man from what I’ve read and seen, he and Elizabeth came to the decision jointly and with due discussion.
7-So you can’t site an example of the line you are referring to, you just felt compelled to accuse someone of it.
Woodrow Wilson was in office when his wife died..his wife died of kidney problems..she happened to be unlucky enough to be born in a time when medicine wasn’t as advanced as it is today…
Certainly a decided lack of native intelligence hasn’t stopped Mr. Bush from flushing the good name of this country down the crapper.
Yes, yes! A President that actually wants to do something to stop the terrorists, to go after them in their backyard, to aggressively seek to fundamentally change the geopolitics of the region that grows terrorists, not just play whack-a-mole.
That’s bound to ruin America’s “good” name.
Has Bush been perfect? Not by a long shot. But he did more about it in his first 6 months than Klinton did in 8 years.
re #8:
irrelevant evasiveness… much as is the custom here.
Bob?
‘perfect’ NO ONE is………. Granted.
Dangerously maniacal is something quite different.
He’s effectively fucked us all. We’re less safe then we were on Sept.10, 2001. The megalomaniac (Bush) has created a generation of Islamic terrorists.
re #9 But he did more about it in his first 6 months than Klinton did in 8 years.
He sure did. You’d said a post-full
Eben, Just hide under your bed and stay there. The adults are handling the situration.
He’s effectively fucked us all. We’re less safe then we were on Sept.10, 2001. The megalomaniac (Bush) has created a generation of Islamic terrorists.
So true! Before Bush, the terrorists just hated us. They only wanted to kill us!
Now they’re really mad!
Isn’t is strange Robert that no matter how much terrorists like OBL and Sheik Kalid, etc. say and then do in fact kill us and others with terrorists attacks that in a liberals mind it’s all Bush’s fault? Sad, so sad.
Why and San Fran has never answered this question, do they never blame the actual perpetrators of terrorism?
BonBon, because then they would realize they are nearly powerless to resolve the situation with the methods (cut and run) that they prefer. They need the US Government to be their boogeyman else their whole world collapses and they end up in the nut ward.
So true PCD but lets hope that in the end they are really glad people like Bush are handling this threat.
17, BonBon, that would only happen if they are like the students in Grenada rescued by Reagan.
SF Liberals really think a police force can protect them. They are idiots. Police only help clean up the mess after the victims are on their way to the morgue, and the Police are helpless against 2 or more people armed with just automatic weapons, let alone explosives, rockets, and other military hardware.
A little historical fact from the liberal last bastion of hope, the US Supreme Court. It is precedent that Police departments have NO requirement to protect any single citizen of this country. They are solely responsible for the general welfare. That means when you call 911 when the guy is banging in your front door, they have no responsibility to even respond to your call for help. That’s the reason why the current President of the NRA became involved with firearms initially. She’s an attorney who fresh out of law school heard someone pounding on her front door. She called police and yelled that she had called the police to the man trying to break in. Instead of running away, he started trying harder to break it down. He ran off a few minutes before the police arrived, but she decided that being a gun owner responsible for her own safety was better than being a victim. Too bad so many in this country are so ignorant of the failures of gun control and law enforcement to protect them.