Letters to the Editor
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Go on, deprive us
I feel bad for Mrs. Edwards and wish her the best. But dude's as faux as it gets. Give it a break, JJ.
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headline
lol@ Salon's front page, with a pic of Edwards and the headline: "Report: Edwards Out" replaced by the same pic of Edwards with the headline: "Edwards Still In"
you should have put a mirror image of the pic up for added comedic benefit
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Way to go. Nice use of the situation.
You--first poster--are a fucking asshole.
But it did take you--what?--all of five minutes before throwing that shit around.
Please. The hypocrisy of your best wishes don't fool anybody, you mammoth prick.
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I cannot believe
he's third in the polls. THIRD?!? Are people crazy? People would REALLY prefer war monger Clinton or "no real plan" Obama over Edwards?
I guess the proper marketing *can* sell anything.
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How beastly cancer can be
Into the bone, that's awful. Nasty damned cancer. If only we could vote cancer out of office.
He's far from my favorite candidate but I hope it all works out for him and his wife, somehow, however it can at this stage, I hope it's not too bad for them, what's coming next.
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I'm Relieved!
Well, I for one am grateful to learn that the Edwardses are still in this race. They are a terrific couple and I cannot imagine a finer and braver First Lady than Elisabeth. I am sending my best wishes for her speedy recovery.
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Wait for it...
Better start getting used to hearing how heartless and cold Edwards is towards his wife for keeping out on the campaign trail while his wife suffers from cancer all alone.
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Is there a reason that everybody, including Salon, had to speculate rabidly all morning?
First of all, my thoughts and prayers are with Elizabeth; my mom is currently battling the same disease, and it sometimes seems relentless. I hope she stays as strong as she seems to be.
On another topic, the mainstream media and the blogs spent the whole morning feverishly speculating and quoting one another about what Edwards would do, and they were all wrong, predicting that Edwards would suspend or end the campaign. Is there a reason they couldn't have simply waited to hear what the Edwardses said at their press conference, instead of playing some pointless game of telephone and completely blowing the story? Once again, the scrambling to be first with something -- anything, even something half-baked and ultimately wrong -- trumped the need for accuracy.
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i just saw elizabeth edwards on TV with her husband
she was calm and smiling and i think she has tremendous courage. anyone who knows anyone personally who had cancer, knows this is a really bad diagnosis. untreatable cancer to the bone. bone is horribly painful. really, i really don't want to see anything horrible and sneering on this thread. ok?
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bluecanary
In 2004, Edwards' drug policy was to the far right of Bush. Maybe people remember that. Much of the population of this country is turning against that war, after all.
I think the DNC or someone -- maybe the editors at Salon -- have decided that there will be no debate about drug policy in our country in 2008. But I think there are a lot of people in this country eager for that debate to begin. People tired of using prison as a warehouse for drug users, for example. People tired of how the war has violentized the country, especially how the war has violentized urban culture.
Most of those people are liberals like me. Technically, I should want to vote for Edwards. But I'm one of these people itching for a debate on our domestic war, so I'm not even sure about voting for any Democrats, especially not now that the whole topic seems to be [censored] and you can't even find out their current policy on the subject at all.
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Maybe she'll be one of the few
I watched only part of the conference on my lunch break, and I don't know, but Edwards did seem to stand a little too apart from his wife. But that doesn't necessarily make him cold or that he doesn't support her.
Hmm. The cynic in me says that it is a great campaign tactic, the brave family, coping and carrying on despite what is basically a death sentence "for the good of the nation" and all that. I also think they could use it as a platform, for research and other things, not to mention sympathy for the family. That is the cynic. The rest of me says that I really wish it hadn't happened to Elisabeth and John Edwards, both of whom I really like.
I just don't know anymore. Sometimes I would like to write in Mark Twain for president.
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@ D. S.
Nice point, D. S. This is nothing but tragic, like Edwards or not.
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It's not horrible and not sneering
to stop and think about the sheer number of hours it takes to simply meet the demnds of a full-time job, let alone choose to run for the highest office in the land...and the toll it takes on a normal, healthy family without asking WTF is he thinking? I like the guy, I was glad he tossed his hat into the ring after the raw deal he got last time around, but this is his WIFE. I think all speculation is valid, from "he's playing the pity card" to "he is callous for choosing this over her" to legitimately questioning how well he can focus on his career rsponsibilities.
Jeez, how do the rest of us normal humans handle the flu and our jobs at the same time, let alone our children and/or spouses when tragedy strikes?
I see no good coming from this, none at all.
P.S.--Sugarman, you don't get to tell another living soul to back off anything. You're as rude and crude as they come.
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Now I Know...
...who I'm campaigning for, and who I'm voting for, should the Democratic Party wake itself from the Hillary trance, shake off the self-destructive push for Obama, and select a man who can not only be elected, but actually do the job better than the current faux "national leaders."
At the same time that the Edwards family shows us the strength and character of true humanity, there will be those (as above) who will show us the depths and depravity of the same. This race, it seems, may be more than about America and its future: this race is about the human race.