The Elizabeth Edwards Campaign (by John Nichols for The Nation)

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BLOG | Posted 03/22/2007 @ 2:17pm
The Elizabeth Edwards Campaign


John Edwards is still in the running.

But his campaign will be different from here on out.

On Thursday morning, as word spread that his wife, Elizabeth, has suffered a recurrence of cancer that struck her in 2004, there was broad speculation that Edwards would suspend his run for the 2OO8 Democratic nomination.

Instead, as reporters crowded around to record what many though would be the exit of the former North Carolina senator from the presidential contest, Edwards declared, "The campaign goes on. The campaign goes on strongly."

But, of course, the campaign will now be shadowed by a discussion about the health of Elizabeth Edwards. It is a discussion that both husband and wife are willing to engage in. And they will put it in perspective.
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Some will see that as inappropriate, perhaps even exploitive. But that's absurd. Elizabeth Edwards has a talent for downplaying her own ailments in a way that allows her to connect with people on a human level. And that connection will benefit the Edwards for President campaign -- a campaign that, from here on out, will be more serious, more real and, very possibly, more viably because this couple made the serious choice to continue with a campaign that is beginning to look more and more like a mission. .........

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=178129

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1. Ah, John Nichols!

Elizabeth will help people going through what she is as no one else can except their loved ones.

I admire their strength but I always knew they had it.

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2. An honored acquaintence, a several-year survivor of ovarian cancer, told me

after hearing the Edwards' press conference today that Elizabeth Edwards was the best thing that could ever happen to the national response to disease.

"This is how it should be done," she told me.

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3. K & R n/t