Edward's Wife Has Cancer - Should He Still Run?

[SDG]

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?

[Newman]

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

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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?

Wrong decision. How can one be an effective president when their wife is going through the agony of bone cancer? And if he can be that cold as a human being (to not be distracted by his hurting wife); why would we want him to be president?

[CC1]

I watched the Ewards press conference live on TV this morning. I have great sympathy for what he and his wife are going through right now and will be praying for him.

I was dismayed that he is such a politician to the core that he actually used the occasion of this announcement to campaign. He said something to the effect that they wanted to use the same tenacity,etc that they are fighting this cancer with to help America. Good grief! Just let us join you in wishing your wife well, don't try to get our vote in the process. Very distasteful.

It's a selfish move at its heart, in my opinion.

Family first.

[Pragmatist]

Originally Posted by Ronzo

It's a selfish move at its heart, in my opinion.

Family first.

Agreed. They still have young children. A campaigning father in addition to a very ill mother does not bode well for the kids.

[ManOfWord]

I don't like it one bit!


However, it may just be that together they asked each other what they would like to be doing if they knew one of them had very little time left.......and settled on running for President.

Still a bad idea!!! I agree....family FIRST!

[Malvaro]

no, because his wife's health would become a distraction to his responsibilities.... should he win (which he won't)

Originally Posted by Newman

Wrong decision. How can one be an effective president when their wife is going through the agony of bone cancer? And if he can be that cold as a human being (to not be distracted by his hurting wife); why would we want him to be president?

Does this make Edward a cold man, I think not! If anything it show hope, hope his wife will beat this and life will carry on as they have planed. Not everyone who comes down with cancer dies overnight, many live with it for years, many live a life that’s productive right up to the end. Most people want to live and need something to focus on other then their cancer, by keeping busy.
I wish them the best, he doing what needs to be done, given hope to his wife that she’ll be there and see this thing through.

In a news report that I read, it said the cancer was incurable. I would think that the stress of Edwards running for president could affect his wife. I think it is a bad idea, as far as I see it I don't think he will go far anyway.

Originally Posted by MrsBOOMM

In a news report that I read, it said the cancer was incurable. I would think that the stress of Edwards running for president could affect his wife. I think it is a bad idea, as far as I see it I don't think he will go far anyway.

This what I read up on the http://www.drudgereport.com/

how long women survive depends on how widespread the cancer is in the bone, and many can survive for years. The longer it takes for cancer to spread after the initial tumor, the better the prognosis. She was diagnosed in 2004.



Sooner or latter we all die, some get to know what will end their life, life in itself can be viewed as incurable.