Could Elizabeth Edwards festering cancer filled booby win?Follow

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17740090/site/newsweek/


I’ve seen a lot of press conferences, but none like the one that Edwards and his wife Elizabeth held on a sun-dappled lawn in Chapel Hill, N.C. Bottom line: yes, Elizabeth Edwards’s breast cancer had spread to the bone. No, there was no immediate danger. No, it was not curable, but yes, it was treatable—treatment would last the rest of her life, however long that may be (years or even decades). As for the campaign, he said, “it goes on, goes on strongly.

I'm a little worried, now. Obamma needs to prop up a sick relative pretty soon or this could be a real problem. I'm not sure current polling appropriately shows the 'dying wife' factor.

How do I know that Edwards didn't poison his wife? This needs to be investigated by a PAC of Republican doctors and the results publicized in TV/Radio commercial form post haste.

Well, the sympathy vote will be upset by the heartless pragmatists who ask if they want a man in the White House who's distracted by a dying wife.

In the Democratic primaries? I doubt the pragmatists are going to think "We're better off with a woman or a black dude than a white southerner with a dying wife"

Was that a little too harsh?

No, it's exactly what they want your demographic to think so that you don't bother to vote and they can keep spewing out easy to comprehend bold faced lies to the people who will mindlessly vote based on who has the best TV commercial.

Grats being sold so easily, I guess.

With fresh material like that, you should be writing for National Lampoon.

Ah...no, where you're wrong is thinking that I wouldn't vote to begin with. I'll vote, but for a Constitution party member, or an independent conservative, which ever is running.

Problem is this: The majority of American voters are so f'n stupid, they don't know what the Constitution is, or where it's kept, much less who the man was that penned it.

What's sad is that immigrants coming into this country, and become citizens (the right way), know more about this nation than most of the dumbasses that are granted citizenship by birthright.

I wonder what they pay...

You have to admit that both parties have let us down over the last several decades on most issues, most of the time.

You have to admit that both parties have let us down over the last several decades on most issues, most of the time.

I don't think so, really. I think they've been fairly effective at giving the majority of people in the US what they want, a schizophrenic, inconsistent mix of arbitrary laws based mostly on corporate interests with occasional nods to fear and prejudice.

Personally, I find Edward's refusal to back out of the campaign rather disturbing. I don't know which is worse-- having a president who has a divided attention, split between his ailing wife and a national crisis or a man who willingly sacrifices time and attention to his ailing wife for political office.

Spin it all they like, but the talking head's insistence that her cancer does not automatically mean death, just points to the protracted nature of the disease and how a sitting president would be completely distracted by her condition.

On the other hand, he could wait for her to croak and then run, thus getting a mortal lock on the cancer, widower, and trophy wife wannabe demographic...

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No argument there, Sammy, about hypocrisy, but courageousness or not, I hold the president-- or a candidate --up to the same standard as I demand of myself towards my wife, that is, fidelity, devotion, and an explicit understanding that she is more important than any job or prestigious position.

/shrugs

If my wife had inoperable cancer you can bet I'd give up anything and everything to spend every available moment with her, especially if that "anything" was a political office that required my attention 24/7 for four years straight.

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I'm a bit torn to be honest.

I read about it, and Edwards said "The campaign is going strong". Well, sorry mate, but it's not. Your wife has incurable cancer. It's not "going strong", unless you mean you'll get the sympathy vote.

I get a bit tired of this mindless optimism and positive spin on everything. Your wife has incurable cancer, don't say "it's going strong". It's not, and every single human being with an ounce of compassion will understand if you take time off campaigning. If you say "it's an unexpected personal tragedy, that puts my presidential campaign in doubt."

Don't get me wrong, I like the guy, but you don't have to be mindlessly positive all the time.

It reminds of of a Blackadder episode, where Edmund Blackadder is about to be tried for treason, and learns that the haplessly optimistic George (Hugh Laurie) is his lawyer: