Sorry About The Cancer, But Please Shut Up
Elizabeth Edwards is getting on my nerves! Big time. When she and her husband, presidential candidate John Edwards, of course, made the public announcement a few months ago that her cancer had returned, I think most of us sympathized with both of them, and their family. I was surprised that he (or they) decided to continue with his campaign. I’m glad he’s in the race, though, because he is a contender.
But she needs to just shut up. I like John Edwards, and as I said, I think he might be a potential candidate. I’m not completely on board with him at this point, but he’s certainly not out of the question. Liz, though, I think is doing more harm than good when she opens her mouth to slam the other candidates. John’s a big boy, playing in a big game, and I’m sure he’s quite capable of speaking for himself. He’s been here before.
Are they trying to play the sympathy-vote card because she has the big “C”? If so, it’s certainly not working. Let John speak, but, someone, please make Elizabeth shut up. Duct tape might work. She’s already been dissing Hillary for “lack of leadership”, and Barack for being “holier than thou”, because they’re both ahead of Johnny-boy in the polls.
But most recently, she did an interview slamming Barak Obama in Progressive Magazine:
“You listen to the language of what people say, particularly Obama, who seems to be using a lot of John’s 2004 language, which is maybe not surprising since one of his speechwriters was one of our speechwriters, his media guy was our media guy. These people know John’s mantra as well as anybody could know it. They’ve moved from ‘hope is on the way’ to ‘the audacity of hope.’ I’m constantly hearing things in a familiar tone.”
So what? Is “hope” off-limits now? I remember during Bill Clinton’s campaign the phrase “a place called Hope” being used quite frequently. Maybe during John Edward’s last failed run for office in 2004, he might have been blamed for the same sort of copycat rhetoric.
By the way, Barack Obama used the phrase “audacity to hope” in his 1995 memoir “Dreams From My Father“, the phrase taken from a sermon preached by Rev. Jeremiah Wright titled, well, “The Audacity To Hope.” Nearly ten years before Edwards’ own “hope is on the way” mantra.
Maybe John Edward’s speechwriters in 2004 took a page from Barack? Hmmm.
Elizabeth needs to step back and let John run his campaign. He can speak for himself. Do her opinions matter, anyway? Hardly. I don’t dislike her, but she should really just be concentrating on taking care of herself and getting well. And on learning how to keep her mouth shut.
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