March 23, 2007
Thoughts on John and Elizabeth Edwards
It seems to have become fashionable these days to rejoice when fellow Americans fall ill. I see it all the time from the left, and I really hope it doesn't start to catch on over on the right. However much I may disagree with John Edwards the politician, my heart goes out to John and Elizabeth Edwards and their families. Cancer is very real to most of us. It recently took away my grandmother, one of the sweetest and kindest women I've ever known. Not too many years before, it took my grandfather. Someday, cancer will probably take me. Though I'll fight John Edwards and his ideas tooth-and-nail in the political arena, I wish the Edwards family all the best as they struggle with this.
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Posted by: wooga at March 23, 2007 10:56 AM (t9sT5)
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I second that!
I hate to see anyone have to go through that cancer chemo and radiation crap. Believe me, it's rough.
I mean the cancer is bad enough, but the treatment is literally poison. The goal is to introduce poison into your body, hopefully in low enough doses that it kills the cancer before either the cancer or the poison kills you.
Trust me, scary, scary shit!
My heart goes out to them, and I hope she pulls through.
V5
I hate to see anyone have to go through that cancer chemo and radiation crap. Believe me, it's rough.
I mean the cancer is bad enough, but the treatment is literally poison. The goal is to introduce poison into your body, hopefully in low enough doses that it kills the cancer before either the cancer or the poison kills you.
Trust me, scary, scary shit!
My heart goes out to them, and I hope she pulls through.
V5
Posted by: V5 at March 23, 2007 11:14 AM (bP+3v)
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No Sir, No mercy should be shown to those who are merciless!
I wonder if the left-wing crazies are rejoicing as much at this as they did when Cheney fell ill! Did JE leap to his defence?
This "cancer" is JE's last best hope to cut into the Clinton/Obama lead and it's going to be milked every step of the way.
What "A Convenient Cancer"! Now what we really need is for a special part of Bill to fall off through misuse and some crazy Muslim to do Obama for being an apostate!
Nothing accrues votes like sympathy and tragedy!
Middah Ke-neged Middah! The Bible said it long, long before Shakespeare did.
I wonder if the left-wing crazies are rejoicing as much at this as they did when Cheney fell ill! Did JE leap to his defence?
This "cancer" is JE's last best hope to cut into the Clinton/Obama lead and it's going to be milked every step of the way.
What "A Convenient Cancer"! Now what we really need is for a special part of Bill to fall off through misuse and some crazy Muslim to do Obama for being an apostate!
Nothing accrues votes like sympathy and tragedy!
Middah Ke-neged Middah! The Bible said it long, long before Shakespeare did.
Posted by: eliXelx at March 23, 2007 11:50 AM (GtVvx)
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Goog post.
Posted by: Howie at March 23, 2007 12:10 PM (YHZAl)
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eliXelx:
"No Sir, No mercy should be shown to those who are merciless!"
There is a difference between political opposition and divesting yourself of all common decency. Would you become the thing you so despise?
Hmm... maybe you could fly an airliner into the Edwards campaign headquarters! al-Qaeda finds that an acceptable form of political expression... and it is down this path that your philosophy leads.
"No Sir, No mercy should be shown to those who are merciless!"
There is a difference between political opposition and divesting yourself of all common decency. Would you become the thing you so despise?
Hmm... maybe you could fly an airliner into the Edwards campaign headquarters! al-Qaeda finds that an acceptable form of political expression... and it is down this path that your philosophy leads.
Posted by: Kafir at March 23, 2007 12:13 PM (HsmTD)
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I'd say I agree with Kafir here.
No one, regardless of political affiliation, should lose their common decency. To do so makes us no better than those we despise. We are not radical muslims and we are no Huff-Po or DailyKos. WE ARE BETTER THAN THEM BECAUSE OF OUR DECENCY!!
While I agree that sympathy garners votes, I think eliXelx is completely wrong in his statements about showing no mercy.
Let's not emulate the sick and disgusting! Rather, let's be the honest, kind, compassionate, and decent people that we are.
eliXelx writes, "Middah Ke-neged Middah! The Bible said it long, long before Shakespeare did."
Well, the bible says to turn the other cheek, and also talks about compassion and treating each other kindly and with respect. And as conservative/Republicans aren't we the "Christians?" Shouldn't we be acting in a manner befitting our ideals and beliefs?
Besides, it's not all liberals/Democrats that act in this fashion. We shouldn't lump them altogether just because a sect of them treat us in a terrible manner.
V5
No one, regardless of political affiliation, should lose their common decency. To do so makes us no better than those we despise. We are not radical muslims and we are no Huff-Po or DailyKos. WE ARE BETTER THAN THEM BECAUSE OF OUR DECENCY!!
While I agree that sympathy garners votes, I think eliXelx is completely wrong in his statements about showing no mercy.
Let's not emulate the sick and disgusting! Rather, let's be the honest, kind, compassionate, and decent people that we are.
eliXelx writes, "Middah Ke-neged Middah! The Bible said it long, long before Shakespeare did."
Well, the bible says to turn the other cheek, and also talks about compassion and treating each other kindly and with respect. And as conservative/Republicans aren't we the "Christians?" Shouldn't we be acting in a manner befitting our ideals and beliefs?
Besides, it's not all liberals/Democrats that act in this fashion. We shouldn't lump them altogether just because a sect of them treat us in a terrible manner.
V5
Posted by: V5 at March 23, 2007 01:13 PM (bP+3v)
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Ahhhhh....Tort Attorneys....
Everybody in all service professions are complete fuck ups UNTIL they need one of them!
Feel sorry for her
Him - it's called KARMA hitting like a ton of bricks (assuming he is the loving hudband he claims to be)
Everybody in all service professions are complete fuck ups UNTIL they need one of them!
Feel sorry for her
Him - it's called KARMA hitting like a ton of bricks (assuming he is the loving hudband he claims to be)
Posted by: Peter Griffin at March 23, 2007 01:56 PM (R4293)
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Cancer sucks, treatments sucks, may the Edwards find strength in the upcoming months to battle this. I've been there and done that and don't wish it on my worst enemies.....well maybe one enemy..ROP
Posted by: allahakchew at March 23, 2007 04:31 PM (BrndJ)
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Cancer killed my Dad. I think how we regard this news depends on whether we think of Edwards as truely evil, or merely a misguided pain in the ass. I could be happy to know Osama bin Laden ws dying from a horrible desease. I could be happy if Hitler had suffered a wasting horrible death. Those men are clearly evil. I cannot say that about Edwards, or his wife. I think the Edwards' deserve our sympathy. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 23, 2007 06:26 PM (2OHpj)
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Comrades,
I have argued against John Edwards and his politics from Day-1. I am happy to go into the ring as if it were a WWF Smackdown event. That's politics.
Cancer, however, is a whole 'nother ball game. As much as I detest John Edwards and his Trial-Lawyer background, I have nothing but compassion for his good wife.
Death is the great equalizer. Regardless of your politics, regardless of your station, we each owe G@d a death, and He will collect it. It's how we go out that matters, and this is a terrible, terrible way to leave.
I hope, sincerely hope, that G@d will have mercy on Mrs Edwards and heal her affliction. it is the right thing to wish for. Regardless of how I may feel towards John Edwards and his politics, he is still an American, and he is still, if G@d is to be believed, my brother, and I cannot wish him or his family ill. I cannot and will not rejoice in their physical suffering from such a horrible disease.
My country's enemies? Well, that is a horse of a different color.
Respects,
I have argued against John Edwards and his politics from Day-1. I am happy to go into the ring as if it were a WWF Smackdown event. That's politics.
Cancer, however, is a whole 'nother ball game. As much as I detest John Edwards and his Trial-Lawyer background, I have nothing but compassion for his good wife.
Death is the great equalizer. Regardless of your politics, regardless of your station, we each owe G@d a death, and He will collect it. It's how we go out that matters, and this is a terrible, terrible way to leave.
I hope, sincerely hope, that G@d will have mercy on Mrs Edwards and heal her affliction. it is the right thing to wish for. Regardless of how I may feel towards John Edwards and his politics, he is still an American, and he is still, if G@d is to be believed, my brother, and I cannot wish him or his family ill. I cannot and will not rejoice in their physical suffering from such a horrible disease.
My country's enemies? Well, that is a horse of a different color.
Respects,
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