Reuters on Edwards Campaign: "What the hell, just flip a coin"

[Lobster Martini]

Here's a peek inside the brains of Reuter's editors. Facts? Who needs facts? One of these has to be right!

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democrat John Edwards will suspend his presidential campaign, and may drop out completely, because his wife Elizabeth has suffered a recurrence cancer that struck her in 2004, a Democratic Party source said on Thursday.

He is going to be ending or suspending his campaign," said the Democratic source in Iowa, adding Edwards and his campaign had alerted some supporters in the state of his decision. "The big mystery seems to be how serious Elizabeth's illness is."

Link to full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070322/pl_nm/edwards_dc_7

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CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democrat John Edwards said on Thursday he would continue his presidential campaign even though his wife Elizabeth has suffered a recurrence of cancer that first struck her in 2004.

"The campaign goes on. The campaign goes on strongly," Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina and the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, said at a news conference in his hometown.

Link to full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070322/pl_nm/edwards_dc;_ylt=AqfxeXuK9iB5FZ.LmBeVfsCs0NUE

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[loyalsister]

1. This illness will be unpredictable

I find it confusing that a person would be interested in pursueing the presidency under such circumstances.
He said the campaign goes on and that he will be by her side when she needs him. That is contrary to a campaign and the office of the presidency.

[Colobo]

2. It'll be too hard for him, I believe

Nobody knows what is going to happen... I wish both the best, but I honestly feel John will have to drop at one point or another.

[TeamJordan23]

3. If he drops, who benefits? Obama?

I think Obama will benefit. But no one would like to see him drop. Although, I will support Obama, in any other year, Edwards would have my vote. I voted for him in 2004 Primary.

[Ninja Jordan]

4. Richardson?

[Czolgosz]

5. Regardless of what JE may wish, I feel certain that EE would want life to go on. What freaked me out

most about my cancer diagnosis was when everyone wanted everything to stop being normal. What I needed more than anything was to get up in the morning and go to work and then come home to play with my kids, to cook dinner, bathe my kids, and put them to bed. I needed to see life going on just as it went on the day before. That sense of life going on was as important to my recovery as the chemotherapy and radiation.

If JE stopped the campaign, I'm sure EE would see that as a victory for the cancer over her struggle to have her life disrupted as little as possible.

[KiraBS]

7. I agree with Czolgosz

That is what I think too. I think they want to make this a time they those to young children of theirs will look back on at be proud of because their parents fought and were strong, for them, each other and the campaign.

If JE is busy, is working, the family have a distraction, something else to focus on, so they don't get morbid and sad all the time. If am sure it has taken more strength for JE to do what he has done today, then we will ever know, they must have had a long, heart-wrenching night last night too.
They are going to make the best of it and maybe this will bring out Wesley Clark into the race and John Edwards could once again by on the ticket as VP which will give him time for his wife, when it is most needed.

[loyalsister]

8. I could see normal

Being a part of a presidential campaign and\or presidency is anything but.

[Dr Fate]

6. I would bet money that Elizabeth INSISTED that he continue fighting.

I cant prove that, but she seems to be that kind of lady.