The Grace of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards [View All]

I'm not sure what I am trying to say, but one thing that touches me so much about John Edwards is that his wonderful wife has what will most likely be a terminal case of cancer.

Going through this now, I can attest to the fact that having a loved one with cancer changes your life irrevocably. There's no going back. It rips away all pretention, all desire, all sanctimony. There is no care for money, or ambition or any sort of pretension. Life shrinks. You lose everything that matters to you. You just want to do what might matter.

There's no one braver, IMO, than someone going through the experience of having and trying to hopefully beat cancer. It is a full time job. And after that, there comes the spouse, the brother, sister, son, daughter, father, mother. It changes your life forever. Many of you probably know what I'm trying to say. There's no point in faking ambition. You can only follow your heart at that point. Life becomes too precious to waste it.

There's no way that Edwards can not have been initiated by this intense pain, and that is why I trust him on the issue of Universal Health Care, and domestic policy in general. Unless he is a sociopath, he must be hurting like hell right now. His beautiful wife is in peril. Believe me, he understands suffering. After your life is contaminated by the cancer of a loved one, nothing is ever the same.

My apologies that my post is more emotional than factual.