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John and Elizabeth Edwards to hold press conference at noon

by: Pam Spaulding

Thu Mar 22, 2007 at 06:00:00 AM EDT


The news wires and the NYT are reporting that there will be a noontime news conference by presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth to discuss the ramifications of a recent follow-up visit to the doctor by Mrs. Edwards. She has been in recovery from a bout with breast cancer after the 2004 campaign; it was believed to be in remission.
Mrs. Edwards, in a brief interview from her home in Chapel Hill, N.C., said she and Mr. Edwards would discuss her health at the news conference, but she declined to elaborate.

"I'm still here," she said.

Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for the Edwards campaign, would not comment. The news conference is to be held in Chapel Hill.

...After the campaign announced its intention to hold the news conference, concern grew quickly among former and current aides to the Edwards family. One close family friend reached Wednesday evening declined to comment on the announcement, but said it would affect, at least temporarily, the future of the campaign.

Prior follow-up visits had not been noteworthy other than to let the public know she had received a clean bill of health, so I'm sure many supporters are concerned and await news.

According to the AP story, the Edwards family is calling this conference having just having received her medical update yesterday (after routine tests performed on Monday), so it's likely less-than-favorable news to report, but I hope that it's only a bump in the road of her recovery from cancer.

As I mentioned last Saturday (3/17) when Kate and I had an encounter with the Edwards family in a local store (Presidential candidate in aisle 2 at Durham Target), they have so little privacy, so little time to be regular people, that we gave them space to just shop and be a family.  Elizabeth Edwards read the post and kindly stopped by and left a comment in the thread. This is now obviously a time when family matters most; having to deal with the public under this kind of stress is unimaginable.

Our thoughts are with the Edwards family.

A thread on the John Edwards '08 blog is here.

If you want to see a level of inhumanity about this matter from The Base, take a trip to Freeperland. I cannot bring myself to link to that filth.

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Good on ya!
I admire you for respecting their shreds of privacy.  At times like that, a warm smile and/or a thumb's-up is the best policy--and keep moving.  Our celebrity-mad culture has battered privacy and a sense of proportion, dignity, and common sense.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

No matter what I've said
about John Edwards or any other Democratic presidential candidate...no one should have to go through this.

Elizabeth, if you swing by here, my prayers are with you, John, and the kids.


Wishing Elizabeth Well, But...
Of course, decent people will hope Elizabeth Edwards beats her health problem.  That noted, here's something she said:

"We think gays should be equal in every conceivable manner in this country, but we are not going to publicly back marriage because it would be political suicide to do that. The country's not ready yet and if we backed gay marriage, people would stop listening to everything else John is saying and focus solely on that one issue."

There are 2 ways of looking at this quote.  One is to say, "Gosh, the Edwards are really decent and ethical; it is not their fault that 'the country's not ready yet.'
Damn stupid, regressive country!  Well, you can't blame John and Elizabeth Edwards for keeping their progressive views under the radar.  They mean well, they just can't say or write it, or they'll get clobbered, poor dears."

Another view- well, actually mine, is to wonder when the fuck the country WILL be ready if nobody running for president will stand up and say, "I am for marriage equality, and here is why...  Here is why same-sex marriage is not a threat to your opposite-sex marriage... here is why, although it may run counter to your interpretation of the bible, the United States has no official national religion... here is why it is a matter of civil rights, as well as the Equal Protection clause of our Constitution... let me explain to you now why it is time for us to be ready for marriage equality... Here is why it won't hurt you, and why you have nothing to be afraid of... Here is why the sky won't fall..."

Would it be way cool for a viable presidential candidate to actually LEAD the nation?

=>The truth usually isn't pretty. Don't blame me for telling it.<=


It would be cool, Chad
But I'm not going to hold a bad and weak political view against a person when they and/or the person they love could be in a potentially crappy health situation.

Despite what the Edwards do or don't do for our community, I don't wish anyone ill.  It's a Karma thing.  One day my partner could be seriously or terminally ill but I damn sure don't want nor need anyone bringing up my political views at that moment.

Honestly, to say "yeah but" at a time like this would be the equivalent of having a fundie say "tough shit" when we can't visit our dying partner in the hospital.


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It's a Reading Comprehension Thing
I never even implied I wished the Edwards family ill.
I never even hinted if I met them, at this difficult time,
I would march up to them and say, "Now what's this about your being for marriage equality, but you just can't say it?"

What I wrote was exclusively for those on this site, if
people weren't sure what the Edwards' real position was on marriage equality.  If you didn't know, now you know: they are secretly for it.

=>The truth usually isn't pretty. Don't blame me for telling it.<=


[ Parent ]
I apologize
I guess I did misread you.  My four cups of coffee hadn't kicked in fully at that point. :)

[ Parent ]
Thanks, Callie...
... for your saying you misread.  Not everybody would.

=>The truth usually isn't pretty. Don't blame me for telling it.<=

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