Cancer Cash
April 6th, 2007 at 1:27 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesSure, I was beaten from pillar-to-post for daring to question the motivation of the Edwards clan when they put on their silky-pony show for the press a few weeks ago.
Now that it’s getting uglier, others are riding my coat-tails. Get your own coat-tails, MSM!
The link on Edwards’ campaign Web site invites people to “send a note to Elizabeth and John” and features a sad letter from the former senator penned just after the couple found out her breast cancer had spread and is now incurable.
But people who’ve been sending such well wishes have been hit with e-mail solicitations from Team Edwards, asking for donations just as all candidates are looking to post big online fund-raising numbers.
No… you don’t say!
On the bright side, Elizabeth’s prognosis got much better this week, which, despite the fact that her husband is a scumbag, is welcome news.
Elizabeth did say that she’d “let the country down” by not getting regular mammograms.
Appearing with her husband in Davenport, Iowa, she said by the time she felt a lump in her breast in 2004 and was able to have it removed, it had grown to nine centimeters and the cancer had spread elsewhere.
“I do not have to be in this situation,” Mrs. Edwards told a gathering of 500 people. “I am responsible for putting myself, this man, my family and, frankly, putting you all at risk, too, because I think you deserve the chance to vote for this man.”
What does that last part even mean? God forbid the voters of Iowa don’t get a chance to vote for a money-grubbing, ambulance-chasing con-man. Don’t worry about it, Liz. When your worse-half goes down in the primary, there will be other con-men and charlatans left to vote for, so don’t beat yourself up too much. Even better, they’ll all probably be pushing universal health care – which means that American women won’t have to worry about getting mammograms – they’ll be dead before their turn comes up on the government’s waiting list.
(h/t Collins)
UPDATE:
From the actual email.
April 6th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Is this a little too much? That by not getting a breast exam earlier that she’s “letting the country down”?
Hear me now and believe me later – getting your breast exam is your duty as an American, but nothing, nothing is more patriotic than getting your pap smear.
I demand to know the status of Mrs. Edward’s pap. It’s my right as an American to know and it is utter treason for her to deny me that information. There is no way I can vote for John Edwards without first measuring her pH levels.
This is the Presidency, not an above ground swimming pool. The American people have a right to know!
April 6th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Smantix, tell me that you didn’t just demand to see pap smear results. Say it isn’t so.
April 6th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
She’s getting better? I was going to buy out her unused carbon credits if she went “carbon neutral” early. I guess she’ll be sticking around to use those credits after all.
And Smantix, something smells fishy when you start demanding to inspect presidential pap smears.
April 6th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
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April 6th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Is there a futures market in carbon credits? Can we short?
April 6th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear anyone’s comments over the Battle Hymn of The Republic being played in the background of Lizzy’s Titty Test.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
When Johnny doesn’t win the Dem nomination, what do you think the odds are he’s going to sue someone?