Run, Elizabeth, run

[kskiska]

Many presidents have lived with the ill health of loved ones. Can we stop asking John Edwards when he's dropping out of the presidential race?

By Walter Shapiro

Mar. 27, 2007 | What made the comeback so withering was that it was delivered in such a matter-of-fact tone.

During a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night, Katie Couric kept hectoring John and Elizabeth Edwards about their stubbornness in the face of cancer. Again and again, without getting the response she wanted, Couric asked them why they hadn't yielded to the return of Elizabeth's illness and broadly hinted that they should have called off John's campaign for the presidency. Finally, almost in exasperation, Couric turned to Elizabeth and said bluntly, "Here you're staring at possible death..." Elizabeth interrupted Couric with this cut-to-the-chase response: "Aren't we all, though?"

Left unsaid was that Couric's husband had died from colon cancer in 1998 -- and the perky anchor kept appearing on the "Today" show till the last week of his life. Left unsaid was that legendary newsman Ed Bradley, who died of leukemia last year, was contributing to "60 Minutes" until the very end.

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Being distracted by personal life is part of the terrible burden of the presidency. Both Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford were diagnosed with breast cancer while their husbands were in the White House. In her autobiography, "The Times of My Life," Betty Ford writes about her first night in the hospital for a mastectomy, "Jerry says he's never been so lonely as he was going home to the White House that night. He was more upset than I."

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http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/27/edwards/

[GainesT1958]

1. Nothing infuriated me more...

Than the incredible irony of Katie having the gall to ask that question when she kept working through TWO family deaths due to cancer...her husband's, and her sister's three years later.

This should cement once and for all that she's clearly NOT ready for prime time...ANY prime time!:mad:

B-)

[kaygore]

2. Katie is simply a failure in every meaning of the word and she

wants others to be the failure that she is.

What a hack!

[beyurslf]

3. When I first heard about that interview, I wanted so much to hear that

Elizabeth asked Katie when she quit her work while her husband died. She is such a hypocrite!