Elizabeth Edwards...OFF LIMITS or FAIR GAME?

Question

Since she and her husband have decided to enter the Presidential race, is what she says open to criticism...OR...do we all give her a pass because of her medical condition?


The following was a question of mine regarding a statement that Elizabeth Edwards made:
Elizabeth Edwards is going to give up eating tangerines to save our earth, what are YOU going to give up?
Mrs. Edwards is making a huge sacrifice and giving up tangerines in the name of Global Warming and Conservation...how noble. With such a huge sacrifce on her part - what can we "little people" do to EQUAL her amazing contribution to society?

HERE IS ONE OF THE ANSWERS TO THIS QUESTION:
Wow... Not just smearing a candidate with non-issue nonsense ... Not just smearing a candidate's wife with non-issue nonsense... but smearing a candidate's wife who has inoperable cancer with non-issue nonsense that means nothing to nobody...
Fantastic!! Way to raise the bar on political discourse!

What do you think?

Political SATIRE / HUMOR
I was trying to be HUMOROUS with my question. My question did not attack Mrs. Edwards...but i did mock the "sacrifice" - yes.

Answer 1

The minute John Edwards assigned her his "Dirty Work", attacking Coulter in a staged act, and then basically calling Hilary a "Man", John Edwards put her in the game.
I will not take Pot Shots at her. At least she has conviction.
I will take Pot Shots at John Edwards for using his sick wife as his "Attack Dog".
He is an absolute disgrace.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, when somebody runs for president, they place their spouse and family out there for the world and media. She is fair game as are all the other spouses. If the Edwards can't take the heat then it's time to get out of the game.

I am very sorry for Mrs. Edwards. She is fighting a huge battle that has many odds. I hope the pressure of political ambitions doesn't effect her health. But this was a choice they made.

Answer 3

Open Season on Her. If she can't run with the big dogs, then who needs her as a potential first lady. This isn't your daddy's politics, this is today's politics, and it's a jungle out there, and with that wimp she has for a husband, somebody in that family has to be tough, or they might as well pack up and go home to their beautiful mansion right now.

Answer 4

Why would anyone waste their time worrying about Elizabeth Edwards? She isn't the one running for political office.

I would hardly call "not eating tangerines" a sacrifice.

Answer 5

Personally I couldn't give a damn about her medical condition.
What does her medical condition have to do with the corruption and dysfunction that she and her husband are trying to shove down our throats?
Answer:NOTHING!
All of us have had medical conditions or personal problems in our life but that is not a free ticket for us to use as a justification to do whatever the hell we please and it isn't for her and her husband either.

Lets explore a new avenue of thought here for a moment.

Over 1.9 million abortions take place each year here in America alone.
When in fact the term 'abortion' should be replaced with the word "Holocaust'.
Definition of Holocaust as defined by the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Holocaust:burnt whole,to burn,a sacrifice consumed by fire,A THOROUGH DESTRUCTION INVOLVING EXTENSIVE LOSS OF LIFE,A MASS SLAUGHTER OF PEOPLE esp.GENOCIDE.

Elizabeth Edwards wants Universal Health Care to include the costs to cover abortion and is in fact Pro-Abortion and her husband John Edwards thinks Partial Birth Abortion should be commonly practiced and the ban on it should be lifted in fact he voted against the ban on Partial Birth Abortion just recently but Bush vetoed it and kept the ban in place.

Partial Birth Abortion is the most cruelest way imaginable in which to end a human life.
The good doctor first induces labor and delivers the baby who could be only 1 day away being born naturally up to it's head then he jams an instrument up into the back of the babies head and sucks out it's brains collapsing it's head and then delivers it the rest of the way dead.
The baby experiences a tremendous amount of pain before it's life is ended and this is what Elizabeth and John Edwards both want to happen to defenseless and innocent babies.

And since so many babies die each year wouldn't it be safe to assume that at this point we could replace the term abortion with that of Holocaust?
Because that's exactly what it is.
Abortion is in fact a mass slaughter of human life.
While the Democrats and Liberals all protest the war in Iraq and wants our troops to come home safely and are always telling us about how many innocent lives are lost every year due to this war they in fact condone the loss of life through abortion and have no qualms about it what so ever.

So I don't care about Elizabeth Edwards or her husband because both of them in my opinion are very evil people and her condition with cancer is nothing compared to the fate that so many unborn children face each and every year that she and her husband both support.

Answer 6

I think anyone who enters the political arena has to expect that people are going to have something to say about them. I'm sure she is thick skinned and ready for this election, cancer or not. They as a couple and a family decided to go for it despite her cancer.

Answer 7

I think that what she says in dealing with political issues is alright to discuss. But you did kind of take her comments in a sarcastic way, which was immature. As long as you stick to her politics and keep it mature, there is not problem. When you bring sarcasm into it, it is in bad taste, regardless of her medical conditions.

Answer 8

You said it best..."what she says is open to criticism".

I don't think anyone would disagree there.

Yet some people seem to think "criticism" means "attack". And not only her words...but her tragic cancer battle.

Sad really. Can you imagine how far FDR would survive in today's political atmosphere?

Answer 9

Of course Elizabeth Edwards is not fair game!!! Since when do people think non political spouses should be attacked?


For example, some people would say that Laura Bush is a grinning idiot who got away with getting drunk and murdering her ex boy friend. Some people would say Laura Bush should run over George with a car as well, that Laura Bush ran over the wrong person.

BUT I AM NOT GOING TO SAY THAT ABOUT LAURA BUSH!!!!!!!!! THAT'S BECAUSE SPOUSES ARE OFF LIMITS!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

I thnik we shoudl treat her like she doesn't have cancer. she isn't dead yet, she's actually looking quite healthy, lets not treat her like she is gravely unhealthy.

but I do see the reason behind sticking to campaign issues and focusing on the candidates themselves.