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His Imperial Majesty just got word that John Edwards is considering suspending his campaign for U.S. President, due to a sudden recurrence of his wife’s cancer.
This is, of course, horrid news for her and her loved ones, and we pray that that most awful disease will be beaten back into remission soon.
We’re no friend of Silky Pony’s, but that’s utterly irrelevant. All that is relevant now is his wife Elizabeth’s speedy and full recovery.
(And anybody gloating or making light of this in the comments will be subject to a thorough thrashing with the Imperial ClueStick™).
Get well soon, Elizabeth, we’re sending up a good word for you with the Man Upstairs.
***UPDATE:*** Having watched the news conference, I can update by saying that this will not lead to Edwards suspending his campaign. [Here’s the link, for those of you who are curious. -Spats] Good. Much as I’d like to see him go the way of the dodo, politically speaking, it would be horrible for his campaign to end because of this. I’m also happy to report that the cancer is apparently not widely spread and remains eminently treatable, if not curable. I don’t know about the last bit, miracles DO happen and I’ll be holding out for one regardless of what the doctors say, as I’m sure that the Edwards family will, but that’s the verdict, according to medical authorities.
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My prayers are with John and Elizabeth Edwards.
Politics should take a backseat to being human.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:17 AMAs Donne said, “There but for the grace of God go I”
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Must not have said enough prayers when she was diagnosed the first time. Ours families prayers and best wishes to Liz.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:20 AMUsing
We wish harm to none who are merely political opponents. Get well, Liz, and hang in there John.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:29 AMUsing
At the news conference, Edwards said the cancer has returned - this time to the bones. It’s confined to a rib presently. Edwards says it’s not curable, but is treatable. They’re both optimistic and are encouraged by the doctors’ prognosis for successful, long term treatment.
Edwards is not suspending his campaign.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:32 AMUsing
Oh, I may not be a fan of the Ambulance Chaser, but I’m even less of a fan of cancer. Within the virtual world of Second Life, I’ve been working with one of the team leaders in the 2007 SL Relay for Life (benefiting the American Cancer Society), who is herself a cancer survivor. And both my wife and my father are cancer survivors as well.
I hope to see soon that Elizabeth Edwards has made a full and complete recovery.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:37 AMUsing
Hang in there Mrs. Edwards. You too, John.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:39 AMUsing
Good move on John’s part…continuing his campaign. After all…who can criticize the man? His wife has cancer, for G-d’s sake!! Can you imagine the spectacle of her health visibly deteriorating as next summer’s campaign heats up (assuming he gets the nomination)? And…if her heath does take a turn for the worst (G-d forbid), the Dems will nominate him in a hearbeat.
Now…if only we had government funded stem-cell research.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:45 AMUsing
She and the whole family will be on my prayer list. I may not like her husband’s politics or hair, but I don’t wish ill on them. Cancer is one of the scariest words in the English language, and to have to hear it AGAIN … man. I pray this ends in cure, not any of the other options.
Keep your spirits high, Mrs. Edwards!
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:50 AMUsing
This falls under the category of things you would not wish on your worst enemy.
Much less someone who’s polotivs you simply dislike.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:58 AMUsing
Mrs. Edwards, you have my sympathies. Fighting cancer is no easy task, and I wish you the best of health and a long, pain-free life.
However, John, you’re not getting any sympathy from me. It’s not because you’re a lawyer, a Democrat, or a liberal. No, it’s because you’re going to continue your campaign, even though your wife has yet another case of life-threatening cancer. It makes me suspicious that you’re trying to play the sympathy card as part of your hand, and I hate it when people play the sympathy card on you. The country does not need you as badly as your wife and your kids need you now. Be there for them, not be there for the primaries.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:17 PMUsing
Aparently Edwards talked to his wife of over thirty years and the doctors involved, and all agree that this is very treatable and that neither needed to put their lives on hold.
I’ve dealt with cancer myself off and on for the past forty-five years, and I’ve learned that if you give up on one thing, you might as well give up on it all.
The Edwards are doing the right thing, and if you are suggesting that maybe he is putting his political ambitions over the care of his wife, then that’s ludicris.
At least he isn’t doing what another Presidential hopeful did when his wife was going through cancer treatments:
Granted, Newtie hasn’t announced yet, but even Helen Keller can see he is moving in that direction.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:51 PMUsing
Politics aside, we are human, and Elizabeth must fight for her life against severe odds. I wish you a full and speedy recovery, Elizabeth, you will be in my prayers.
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:17 PMUsing
DJ, this is about cancer and the woman fighting it. Not about John and certainly not about Newt.
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:19 PMUsing
Well, in all fairness to DJ, ClimbingFreeman did bring up the subject.
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:36 PMUsing
ClimbingFreeman, I truly hope you are wrong. I don’t want to ever have to believe that of any human being. One of the best things to be done is to try and live as normal a life as possible.
BTDT, got the t-shirt. Strangly enough, Elizabeth is my daughter’s name. No matter the outcome, this is not going to be a pleasant ride, for Liz, John or the rest of the family.
I would not wish this on anyone. Elizabeth, you are in my prayers. Be well.
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:49 PMUsing
Which was the ONLY reason I commented the way I did.
There was the insinuation that Edwards was more concerned with his campaign than he was about the health and welfare of his wife.
Given their prior history together with all of this, I’m guessing that he probably wanted to suspend or even quit the campaign and she probably talked him out of it.
I brought up Newtie because I wanted to contrast what a real cad would do when confronted with a spouse suffering cancer.
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:56 PMUsing
LC Wil seyz:
And I hope I’m wrong too. I hate to think the lowest of people, but people do bad things, and you can’t always give them the benefit of the doubt. Plus I have an active imagination, and when I saw this one the site, I immediately recalled the scene between Michael Douglas and Martin Sheen in “An American President” where Douglas’ character asks Sheen’s if he thinks they won the election because of public sympathy (backstory is Douglas’ wife died 2 months before the election). My suspicions were based entirely on my recollection of that bit of the movie. I am not going to put on a tinfoil hat and start ranting about conspiracy theories.
DJ Allyn:
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:57 PMAnd IMHO, Newt was an asshole for doing that. Had I know he did it then (I was too concerned with my own sucky teenage life then instead of politics) I would’ve called him an asshole for doing it then. If Newt makes it on the November ballot, that’s one thing I’ll have to take into account when I decide whom to vote for (because the easy choices of Cthulhu and Kali, Devourer of All-Worlds are not on the ballot due to racist rules by the FEC saying you can’t nominate or vote for deities for president).
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To any lib-tard reading the above replies, note that they are not gloating, they are not mocking, they are not saying “good” and so on.
Somehow I doubt that if it was Laura Bush that the liberals would be saying the same sort of things.
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:10 PMUsing
Ya know, she seems like a geniunely nice person. I wish nothing but the best for her.
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:27 PMUsing
exactly, Jon
reminds me of the P.E.T.A. Gulliani ad after he announced Prostrate cancer: “Got Prostrate?”, mocking the milk ads.
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:27 PMUsing
And it’s a possibility, particularly considering how he’s been using just about everything else as an opportunity to raise money (the “faggot” remark and “Coulter Cash”, anybody?)
But I refuse to believe that he could sink that low, I simply will not allow myself to think that without evidence. I understand the suspicion, but I just don’t want to think that way about anybody, not even him. However, if it turns out that I was wrong… Oh boy, I may just have to venture into regions of sarcasm and invective hitherto unexplored…
But that’s all speculation and it is irrelevant right now. All that matters is that Elizabeth gets through this and that her and the rest of the family hang tough, with the help of G-d.
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:56 PMUsing
Among the many reasons for which I despise Edwards are what he did to obstetrics and obstetricians. The rotten bastard scum.
As to his wife, if I had a way to do so, I would inform her that my own aunt was in the same situation in her 40’s, back in the days when they could not do anywhere near what they can now. Nevertheless, she fought it off for over 30 years, and died from other factors relating to old age. Don’t get me wrong, I wish she had gone on far longer, but I consider that a great run and a victory, and I wish the same and more for Mrs. Edwards.
I’m only wasting electrons here because I think it’s possible, for reasons which of course I don’t come close to understanding, that all these good wishes from people sometimes have a beneficial effect. Maybe Jackboot can investigate the physics of the phenomenon.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:12 PMUsing
Roger, please never underestimate the power of sincere, honest prayer. It does work.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:27 PMUsing
Anyone want to lay odds this post does not wind up on Misha Watch?
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:17 PMGet well soon Mrs.E
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Sir Christopher,
The mans prostate was prostrate when he prostrated himself.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:36 PMUsing
Considering who he is, I would hate to be her doctor…….
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:07 PMUsing
[Enjoy your vacation, dumb fuck.
If you’re lucky and Misha’s in a good mood, it might be temporary. -The Management™]
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:12 PMUsing
I don’t see the dark side that a few of you seem to see with Edwards. I like John Edwards, but he wouldn’t be my first choice for president, so I don’t really have a reason to carry his water for him.
But frankly, I don’t see him as the type of man who would use his wife’s health to gain sympathy amongst voters. From her statements, it was Elizebeth Edwards who insisted he stay in the race, after he had decided to at least suspend his bid.
As far as the announcement concerning her health, it was bound to come out sooner or later, and regardless of WHO finds themselves in this situation, it is always best to have control on the reporting of this kind of news.
I am sure that the Edwards would have much rathered NOT have this kind of news to share with the world. It is obvious that they love each other MORE than any election.
It is nice to read all of the comments here of well wishes for her health, even though in previous posts the man has been called names and completely unfounded slurs made about him. If he is a ‘faggot’ as Coulter insists he is, then there must be a whole lotta ‘faggots’ in this world, and that is a good thing.
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:27 PMUsing
Well, I can’t help but wonder why they have decided to continue the campaign. The only thing I can figure is that they really have no idea, right now, how the treatments are going to take their toll on Mrs. Edwards.
Bone cancer is relentless, excrutiatingly painful, and the treatments are extreme, with terrible side effects. No way in hell that he will be able to continue the campaign and be there for her, at her side.
Hopefully, at some point they will both realize this….
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:36 PMUsing
First, she says she feels fine. They are going on the advice of the doctors treating her.
Secondly, nobody has any idea of the “toll” the treatments are going to take on Mrs. Edwards. Not every case is the same — I know. As I’ve stated earlier, I have been dealing with cancer for most of my life in one form or another. It is a wait and see kinda thing.
It might be as you say for Mrs. Edwards — it is way too early to tell. From the sounds of it, they may have caught it at a very early and managable stage.
Maybe they will, but HOPING for it makes it sound like you are more concerned about him leaving the campaign than you are about whether he is looking after her needs.
I am sure that if and when the time comes that it looks like this is going to take a lot of time and commitment by her side, he will drop out of the race. But until that time comes — and HOPEFULLY it doesn’t, let’s just hope for the best.
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:10 PMUsing
Oy, Wil, I don’t deny that for a second; in fact, that’s sort of what I was trying to say myself. If I sounded snotty or sarcastic, I apologize; my intention was the opposite.
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:27 PMUsing
I nearly lost my mom to cancer a few years back. I wish for her to recover and lead a happy and healthy life, but I can’t help but wonder if ‘ol blowdry boy isn’t going to grandstand on this and use it as a campaign stepstool!
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:55 PMUsing
I have two hopes.
1 I hope that Liz’s treatment is successful. I would not wish the pain of cancer on any human being, no matter how batty.
2 I hope this treatment costs John Edwards at least as much as he made by lying to juries to steal money from doctors.
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:00 PMUsing
If I understand it correctly, she doesn’t have bone cancer. She has metastatic breast cancer…it spread to her bones. As one who just went through the uncertainty of a mammogram, I can certainly understand how she’s feeling.
I wish her and her family all the best.
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:30 PMUsing
I wish Mrs Edwards all the best. I hope her treatment helps her overcome this damn cancer.
As for John, I wouldn’t put anything past him. He’ll play the sympathy card alright, just wait and see!
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:06 AMUsing
‘Ol Blowdry boy will use ANYTHING to advance himself, and at ANY cost! Remember that he used nothing less than junk science to win his first big paycheck in suing a hospital! I hope I’m wrong, but I think that this is just a campaign grandstand on his part!
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:38 PMUsing
Do you know how assinine that sounds? That they would somehow make up or play up something as serious as this just to advance his career?
It seems that there are a few people who would rather the Edwards start some sort of death watch, instead of trying to get on with their lives and live whatever time they have left to the best of their ability. If that means running in an election, then so be it.
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:51 PMUsing