Elizabeth Edwards

This is more of rant than any news blog - but it is in response to what the news world deems worthy of publication. Here we go...

The politically obsessed, Republicans, and generally those not sharing John Edwards' personal dream of sitting in the Oval Office are all going to argue that the current and future health status of his wife IS their business. But if they had any respect (which seems an ethic quick and easy to lose in journalism), they would just leave Elizabeth Edwards alone.

So her cancer has returned, and much worse than before. But that's not the news so much as what they are really intimating. The subtext is:

"Oh, she's going to die and he wont be fit to run a nation, yet alone his own affairs!"

Well, leave her be, and leave his family be! Cancer is cancer, and in our own lives we all know at least one person either with or affected by it. I truly hope that if what they say about her cancer is true, that her time with her family would be free of the press and mics shoved in her face. She shouldn't even be expected to speak on the subject unless she so chooses.

I truly truly expect that Edwards' decision to move forward with his campaign for the White House was contingent upon her insistence, an insistence in the same not influenced by political babble pressure but instead by her own wanting. In theory, in our democracy, no one man is too important that he must sacrifice his family.