Edwards Defends the Campaigning Spouse

[bigtree]

Jan 26, 2008



COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Democratic Party elders everywhere may be telling Bill Clinton to cool it, chill, pipe down, whatever. But John Edwards has a slightly different take on the ex-president's fierce campaigning of late on behalf of his wife.

"My basic view about this is that I don't like the personal fighting back and forth, between candidates or between spouses," Edwards said in an interview aboard his campaign bus. "But it is very hard for me. I believe that spouses have the right to speak their minds. In his case, he happens to be an ex-president. But my wife Elizabeth speaks her mind. And I think they're entitled to do that. It's a democracy. That's the way it works. People can agree or disagree with what they say, but they're not required to go home and sit around and be quiet. That's just the way I view it."

As for Edwards himself, he insists that he is in the race until the end, regardless of his showing in South Carolina or in the Super Tuesday states on Feb. 5th.

"This is not about me or my personal ambition," he said. "It's about the cause and the voices who are not heard...And so their voice is going to get heard. It's going to get heard through me, no matter what those two Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/26/edwards_defends_the_campaignin.html

[Ilsa]

1. Fabulous First Couple! I love how they are together, and how

optimistic they are in the face of adversity.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. Beautiful couple. nt

[Maribelle]

3. Great pictures. Great wrods.

I love them both.

[robbedvoter]

4. Good for him!

[balantz]

5. Beautiful People!

"It's not about me or my personal ambition...it's about the cause and the voices who are not heard"

The kind of leadership America needs.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Absolutely!

[lisainmilo]

6. absolutely beautiful couple!

:toast:

[K Gardner]

8. There is no comparing Elizabeth to Clinton, however. She is gracious and fiesty and

full of humored spirit. He is just plain old mean, divisive and nasty.

Kudos to Elizabeth for knowing how to campaign effectively !

[bigtree]

10. She speaks her mind

. . . she has great one, at that.

[goldcanyonaz]

9. Such a handsome couple.

[Triana]

11. The seem to have a good marriage ...

... because each is his/her own person. He lets her be herself and vice versa. That type of friendship and mutual respect goes a long way.

They ARE great couple. I SO wish they will be the First Couple. I'd be very proud to have them in the White House.

[bigtree]

12. good partnership

good marriage