<div class="body" style="padding-left: 8px">“…there’s not a single person in America that should vote for me because Elizabeth has cancer… Do not vote for us because you feel some sympathy or compassion for us. That would be an enormous mistake.”</div><hr><div class="bodysmall" align="right">Presidential hopeful John Edwards</div><div class="bodysmall" align="left"> </div><div class="bodysmall" align="left">
Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 after John Kerry & John Edwards’s presidential bid defeat. She wrote a best-seller book Saving Graces;</div><div class="bodysmall" align="left"> </div><div class="bodysmall" align="left">“From Publishers Weekly
…. Edwards’s memoir is not about cancer, politics or even unbearable loss (though the description of her grief is heart-wrenching). It’s about the value of people coming together to support each other.”
</div><div class="bodysmall" align="left"> </div><div class="bodysmall" align="left">In the past, illnesses in leaders were not disclosed to public, we didn’t know about president John F Kennedy’s chronic back illness until well after his death. </div><div class="bodysmall" align="left"> </div><div class="bodysmall" align="left">She has received more than 12,000 emails of support since announcing of her recurrence, incurrable, but treatable cancer. She and her husband could easily exit the presidential race by citing her illness. But she has chosen to be in the campaign.</div><div class="bodysmall" align="left"> </div><div class="bodysmall" align="left">Cheers to Elizabeth Edwards!</div><div class="bodysmall" align="left"> </div><div class="bodysmall" align="left">PS. I’m not an American citizen, therefore can’t vote. But US political news are intriguing that’s why I keep reading and listening.</div><div class="bodysmall" align="left"> </div><div class="bodysmall" align="left">Update from TIME Magazine
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Wednesday, Apr. 04, 2007
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I’ll be constantly trying to change the subject to the bigger issues. I don’t just want to be the wife with cancer.
</p> </blockquote> <div class="attribution"> — ELIZABETH EDWARDS, <div>wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, whose cancer has turned out to be more curable than originally thought </div> </div> </div>
