Posted on 12/07/2010 2:08:48 PM PST by tje
Chapel Hill, N.C. Elizabeth Edwards, the political wife whose public battle with breast cancer, coping with marital infidelity and continued advocacy for the downtrodden raised her profile above that of her husband, died Tuesday. She was 61.
Edwards died at her Chapel Hill home, where family and friends had gathered in recent days after doctors informed her that her cancer had spread and recommended that she not undergo further treatment.
Edwards was first diagnosed with cancer in the waning days of the 2004 presidential campaign, when her husband, then-U.S. Sen. John Edwards, was the Democratic nominee for vice president. The couple didn't disclose her illness until after the election.
The cancer went into remission after surgery and months of treatment, but it resurfaced in early 2007, as John Edwards was mounting a second run at the White House. The Edwardses agreed at the time that they wouldn't allow the cancer to derail his candidacy.
Because the cancer had moved into her bones, her doctors said at that time that it was no longer curable but could be treated.
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Wasn’t what I meant...but with John Edwards it still works!
That is considered suicide...which is murdering one’s self...that puts a whole lot more in jeopardy than a church service...
Indeed. But, the Kennedys always want their ceremonies.
Jackie O was very upset when the church that married Teddy’s daughter (Kara?) refused to allow Caroline to have the “same” wedding. Caroline eventually had her wedding elsewhere. I don’t know what the problem was, but the priest who performed Kara’s wedding refused Caroline.
Jackie did????
yes....morphine QUICKLY brings on death.
She knew John was a two-faced, lying whoremonger during the campaign and still did her best to convince voters he was an upstanding husband, father and a man of honor who deserved to be president. She got up on the stage in front of America and did her best to lie and mislead us.
She let ambition cloud her judgement and conduct. She would have been glad to foist her POS husband on us as President if fate (in the guise of the National Enquirer) had not intereceded.
I have a small amount of sympathy for her because of her illness and a lot for her innocent children. But let’s keep it in perspective; she was not a saint.
John Edwards was her husband.
She died of embarrassment.
I’m with you.
Our ‘free’ press willingly and repeatedly spiked stories about her aberrant behavior, cancer notwithstanding.
Had John Edwards been elected president there would have been no mention of his affairs or her unhinged episodes during the campaign - all down to the media choosing sides.
Didn’t mean Jackie... I meant Elizabeth gave up too much of herself and her life. Rest in peace Elizabeth...you deserve it.
That was my point to the other poster. She’s not a saint.
But the woman is dead now after suffering severe humiliation and emotional and physical pain, so I think the details of her flaws and failures of judgment are best left to her family and God to sort out.
No reason her beneficiaries couldn’t just go ahead and pony up the 55% gratis. I’m sure John would be happy to do that for her, so concerned about the poor as he stated so many times.
Prayers for Elizabeth and her loved ones.
She was a cutie, nice pix.
Laura Ingraham and Elizabeth Edwards used to email each other, because they were both fighting breast cancer.
Thankfully, Laura has done remarkably well, and I wish Elizabeth had the same success.
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