Posts Tagged → Elizabeth Edwards
Schoolyard name-calling stunt to buoy Edwards’ profile?
I’m just hazarding a guess, but I suspect Elizabath Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential candidate and village idiot, former Sen. John Edwards, and conservative columnist Ann Coulter, won’t be sharing bunk beds at summer camp any time soon.
In an attempt to make his failing candidacy relevant again, Edwards tried to stir up his dormant feud with Coulter in a recent campaign stop, telling the crowd his wife stood up to Coulter’s “attacks” earlier this summer. Well then, maybe Elizabeth should be running for president and not you, Sen. Edwards!
Edwards used the “shoot first and apologize later” strategy in the campaign stop, calling Coulter a “she-devil” and then immediately apologizing for name-calling. Which is kind of like Mike Tyson biting off Evander Holyfield’s ear and then saying, “Opps, I shouldn’t have done that, I abhor violence” in the post-match interview.
Everyone together now: “Yeah…. riiiiiiiiiight!”
Coulter appeared on Hardball recently, and when asked about the criticism she took for calling Sen. Edwards a “faggot” at a conservative conference, she referenced a nasty remark comic Bill Maher had made about Vice President Dick Cheney in her response.
For background’s sake, Maher said of Cheney that he thought it would be killed in a trip to Afghanistan. So, Coulter mimicked the line, saying that, “If I’m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”
Of course, no one in the liberal media was willing to acknowledge the liberal Bill Maher’s precedent-setting remark about Cheney, and it became another “Coulter is hateful!” fallout, with Elizabeth Edwards calling up and “begging” Coulter to stop the name-calling.
But, umm… this was all before Sen. Edwards called Coulter a she-devil. Apparently a cessation of name-calling can only go one way in the minds of most Democrats.
Cancer recurrs on both sides of the aisle
If there’s one thing in this world that’s nonpartisan, it’s cancer.
In the past week, prominent figures from both parties have received bad cancer news. About a week ago, Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic Senator and current presidential contender John Edwards, found out that her cancer was back.
The prominent breast cancer survivor received the worst possible news; not only has her cancer recurred, but it’s moved into her bones, is inoperable and incurable. For Mrs. Edwards, it’s now a matter of when, not if. The deepest sympathies of Wonderful Pessimist go out to her.
Over the weekend, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow found out similar bad news. Snow beat colon cancer two years ago, but it’s back again, this time hitting his liver. Snow, it turns out, has a chance to beat back this second bout. His liver cancer has been determined to be potentially treatable, although his treatments will require him to step back from his White House duties for an undetermined period of time.
Again, the deepest sympathies of Wonderful Pessimist go out to him.
There is no political point to score with this post; I’m not even going to attempt to smoothly work in my reference to motorcycle sunglasses. Instead, it’s just a time out to say it’s been a crappy week for two political families and everyone who cares about them.
A moment of silence, please… use it as you will.
