Edwards fans: Alternet and The Elizabeth Edwards Interview

Eizabeth Edwards is one of those rare creatures in politics -- a real human being. As she campaigns for her husband, John Edwards, she is winning audiences with her warm, straight-shooting style. She keeps a frenetic schedule, even after the bad news about her breast cancer returning. In May, she spoke to reporters in Madison, Wisconsin, before delivering a speech to a bipartisan group of women in politics. Looking sharp and relaxed in a black pantsuit, she paused to comment wryly to a photographer crouched in front of her, "That is the worst possible angle for a woman, you know. You may take those pictures, but you may not run them."

She dispatched questions about her decision to continue campaigning. "I don't think people who have actually been through these situations are surprised that we would want to live our lives to the fullest, and not give up the things that are important to us," she said. She tied her own diagnosis to the issue of health care generally, which remains people's number-one concern on the campaign trail, she said. "It would be hard to be selfish, eating bon bons with my feet on an ottoman, clicking the remote," rather than trying to do something about the "pain that is out there."

The campaign, she said, "is about the thousands of women who face the same diagnosis I face, but don't have the same access to care. Giving up on campaigning, on trying to make a difference, would be like giving up on them."

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she does take a few swipes at Obama - but then, months ago I sort of figured out what she said about Obama opposing the Iraq war. I didn't hold it against him, but I don't give him credit for political courage on it either (prescience, yes - courage, no). Although most Americans were supportive of the Iraq War in 2002, most Liberals were not. However, in fairness, I don't give Edwards much credit for speaking out against the war now, when most Americans oppose it.

No, true political courage was Russ Feingold voting against the Patriot Act. True political courage was Bob Graham - a Southern Democrat who already had Presidential aspirations - voting against the IWR.