He fights for the White House, wife fights for life
Tom Baldwin in Washington
John Edwards announced yesterday that his wife, Elizabeth, was facing a second battle with cancer but that they had made a joint decision to carry on with his campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
In a televised press conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Mr Edwards rejected earlier claims that he would be forced to suspend his campaign even as he revealed the diagnosis of incurable but “treatable” bone cancer.
“Both of us are committed to the cause,” he said. “You can go cower in the corner and hide or you can be tough, go out there and stand up for what you believe in . . . We have no intentions of cowering in the corner.”
Mrs Edwards, 57, who had been in remission from breast cancer, said that this was “yet another hurdle”, but that both she and her husband had met “people in really desperate shape who don’t have the wonderful support I have and who have nowhere else to turn”.
Such suffering had made her realise why they should not give up on the White House. “It’s important that the American people have an opportunity to have a president like him,” she said.
From:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1555835.ece
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WAS THIS THE RIGHT OR WRONG DECISION ....?? His wife has a one in ten chance of living ten years ... What say ye?
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