Elizabeth Edwards, R.I.P.
News breaking from WRAL in North Carolina that Elizabeth Edwards passed away this afternoon. She was gravely ill with breast cancer and announced yesterday that she had stopped medical treatment.
She leaves behind three children who deserve all the prayers that you can muster to lift them up, no matter what your politics are.
More:
Elizabeth Edwards, the political wife whose public battle with breast cancer, coping with marital infidelity and continued advocacy for the downtrodden raised her profile above that of her husband, died Tuesday, WRAL News has learned. She was 61.
Edwards died at her Chapel Hill home, where family and friends had gathered in recent days after doctors informed her that her cancer had spread and recommended that she not undergo further treatment.
As I noted in 2005, Mrs. Edwards was able to set aside partisanship when it came to the ravages of cancer. As should we all.
R.I.P.
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Prayers for Mrs. Edwards.
I’ll not say what I think of her husband….
May God comfort her survivors.
Via con Dios.
Go with God, Mrs Edwards. You deserved better than what you got at the end of your life.
God rest your soul, Mrs. Edwards. Tre is right – you deserved better than what you got at the end of your life.
The ultimate victim of an egotistical con man.
Amen, and amen.
A brave and classy lady to the end.
Why is anyone interested in Elizabeth Edwards passing? There are probably thousands of people who die every week from cancer, yet when she dies, it’s a big story. Now, for the next week or two, we are going to have to watch/listen to ‘loving tributes’ designed to honour her for her ‘contribution’ – whatever that was mind you.
I know John Edwards’ daughter’s mommy is going to get a tingle in her muffin at this news. Because they were only separated, not divorced, Edwards will probably get a huge life insurance payout, try to milk this drama to get back into the political spotlight and can now live the down and dirty lifestyle with Ms. Hunter. And again, this will be another soap-opera segment of the entire dramatic story that we have to be subjected to for the next long while.
And in summary, really what was Elizabeth, John and Rheal’s contribution to the world – mmmmm, let’s see….Elizabeth married John, a trial lawyer. Rheal had sex with John, as referenced – a trial lawyer and a lying, disgusting politician intent on stealing the public’s money for his and his friends’ benefit. So, really, I don’t see the reason to even pay attention. If my wife passes away of cancer next year, will anyone write up something for her?
I lost a parent to cancer. My heart goes out to her children. The end came more quickly than I expected but I am glad her earthly ordeal is ended. I hope she finds peace and rest now…
Just checked Gatewaypundit, Drudge and Hotair and I guessed correctly, there is front and centre reference to Elizabeth’s passing on all three. Just wait until tonight on the networks and tomorrow on the talk show circuit – GMA, CBS Early show, Regis/Kelly, The View – it will be all out coverage of this ‘courageous women’ who despite a trying marriage and difficult circumstances, exemplified ‘dignity and inspiration’. I will probably feel like gaggin for the next 24 hours.
The only major website that won’t do the obvious will be AceofSpades.
John killed her. Slowly.
If you showed even a little of the class she did with the louse she was married to, then you might. Hey it’s Rememberance Day too – maybe we should not give those guys any thoughts as there are still hundreds dying in a war. Jerk.
If the news of her death brings on these feelings of bile rather than sadness, I’d suggest you get away from your computer for awhile go outside, get some fresh air and be glad you’re alive. You sound like you need some perspective.
May Elizabeth find rest and peace in the loving arms of God, and may God comfort her children. She was a strong and gracious lady.
123upnorth, can you not temper your acrimony and cynicism with a little compassion?
May she rest in peace and her children and family be comforted.
Not much one can say at times like this, except may God be with her family during their time of loss and grief. Know that we grieve with you and our prayers and thoughts are with you.
Well, I am sad for the children. And, yes, 123upnorth, I am sad for ANY children whose parent has just died. If I knew you, I would be sad that your wife had died. I was sad today because the post office lady’s dog is dying, and I gave her a hug while she quietly wept.
I am sad that Elizabeth had a jerk for a husband who found opportunity and temptation too much to overcome. And yet she tried to face our final destination, death, with grace and love.
But most of all, 123upnorth, I am sad that you have come across as a very cold, cold Canadian, in your heart.
Elizabeth Edwards supported the murder of unborn babies. She gave her own children the precious gift of life, but promoted government sponsored murder of other women’s little children in a womb. I feel sorry for her children and their grief. I don’t feel sorry for her or the rest of the Democrat pro-abortion family she surrounded herself with. If she went to her deathbed without remorse, you can be assured I do not care about Elizabeth Edwards’ end. Meet your Maker.
Just as I suspected – the sheep all move together.
Elizabeth Edwards had cancer and died so therefore she is a hero. If Julian Assange becomes ill and passes next year, he too should be remembered fondly. I guess when Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid or Al Sharpton die, we should pay a loving tribute with kind words of rememberance to them, because after all, they passed away from difficulties. Unbelievable.
John Edwards is a despicable man and Elizabeth campaigned for him in hopes of helping him achieve the highest office in America. She lived the high life off of his work as a trial lawyer when he successful sued doctors provided medical care during delivery of babies. That’s right, the same type of outcomes that account for about 10% of the cost of all health insurance premiums and make it less affordable for everyone. She lived off of activity such as that. But okay, according to the sheep posting here today, she had cancer and died, so she is to be remembered as a saint.
Eternal rest grant unto her O Lord,
And let Perpetual Light shine upon her.
May her Soul
And the Souls of all the faithful departed
Through the Mercy of God
Rest in Peace.
Amen
BAAAAAA! Thanks!
I carried the pall for my Aunts death just last week.
Death is a part of life.
123upnorth, whatever Elizabeth’s politics, she leaves very young children (I think ages 13 and 10) and an adult daughter who loved her. For them, I hope they are comforted by their faith, family, and friends.
Michelle’s readers have class, unlike liberal sites who wish for Cheney’s death. That is the difference and why there is no politics in the death of public figures.
God, please put Elizabeth in Your arms and help her children with her death.
I feel I should not comment on john.
L
Politics aside, just 2 years ago my family sat around our mother’s bedside as she passed away after her long battle with kidney cancer. I truly feel for the pain her children are experiencing right now, and they are in my prayers.
Good news, 123upnorth: God forgives!
Well said, babiesgrandma. I wish I knew you.
Let us know and I will.
Death doesn’t make you a saint–Edwards had plenty of faults–but you can at least have some compassion for a fellow human being, or at least her loved ones. Leave the nastiness to the Joy Behars and Kathy Griffins of the world. You don’t need to emulate them.
Please people, everyone who dies has loved ones who will miss them. I don’t see how that fact is worth referencing.
I can’t stand when people talk about grace and courage in fighting cancer. Who hasn’t displayed grace and courage when undergoing cancer treatment? Have you ever heard of anyone being tagged as being ungracious or uncourageous when battling cancer?
Little Ma, I don’t believe in God. If there is one true God, which one of the five major world religions is worshiping correctly? What makes you think your religion is the correct one?
For anyone who wants to throw insults my way, I would like to inform you all that I have suffered from serious health problems for over ten years. So, in other words, you all should show compassion to me and say only kind words.
Regardless of politics, and her lack of graciousness in some situations, she did have to cope with a lot in life – her son dying at 16, her cancer, and her husband’s humiliating infidelity.
I hope she has finally found peace, she left behind a family who loved her.
Well, 123upnorth, you are entitled to your opinion. Perhaps you have never lost a loved one to cancer or other illness. Some of us have. And we remember the pain and grief we experienced, and the pain and grief her children are experiencing.
You can shut down you browser and turn off your radio and TV if the coverage causes you problems. I won’t be watching any of the coverage. But, I can still feel sorry for her kids, and maybe her siblings, and even her parents if they are still alive. They are people. It costs little to think a kind thought, say a prayer and move on. Evidently, you feel it too burdensome. It says more about you than about her or other here. Too bad for you…
I completely agree. CBS treated her passing as a momentous national event in their Evening News coverage. In fact, it was the most universal of events, hardly made more sad, IMO, by any particular contribution that this woman made to our national life. I state as a simple fact that she was a nasty and ambitious partisan working to turn the country over to her deeply immoral and corrupt husband. I do not generally make it my business to make harsh remarks about the lately departed; some truth, however, seems necessary in the midst of this gush of sentiment for a woman who I can not and do not honor for anything whatsoever.
Sorry. Let the left turn her into their saint; I will not doff my cap as the ugly parade passes by.
We already knew that by the way you treat people. One day you will my friend. I pray it’s in this life. If you wait til the next it won’t go well.
Yeah right wareagle, I am a bad person because I don’t feel for Elizabeth. You are noble because you do. Your criteria for determining good and bad is quite simple.
Agnostic?
Skeptic?
Atheist?
One thing for sure, they share one thing in common: bitterness!!!
…..and bitterness loves company in the grave full of bones they live in.
You should love your neighbor as you love yourself. Unselfishness must come before you love someone else.
RIP Elizabeth.
Rio
Semper Fi!
God
Country
Corps
Swede, do you really believe I will turn my opinion around regarding the existance of god? What would cause me to do this? What proof do you have that god exists? People mock global warming theory as unproven and ill-founded, but the same people believe so strongly in a God and mock those that don’t believe.
I feel for her young children, it is horrible to lose a parent when so young. I however cannot forget that Elizabeth wanted so much to be First Lady that she LIED to all of us having known full well that her husband had a mistress, she continued on lying until the Enquirer FORCED her hand. My kids knew some Edwards campaign workers ie: college students who just couldn’t believe how their devotion was paid off by lies. I of course welcomed them to the real world and encouraged them to never go with their feelings to educate themselves before joining campaigns and voting.
It is truly that type of unbridled power lust that the Edwards’ had that makes politicians and sometimes their wives and or husbands so disgusting to the average American. Let us not forget John USING his dead son in conversations to move his agenda forward. I truly hope that John Edwards goes to jail.
We couldn’t do that… it would be punishing the children……////
Yes and no.
Most believers in Christianity don’t mock those that have another faith or lack of faith. Islam on the other hand will kill you if you don’t believe.
Remember that global warming, or climate change or whatever is the catch-phrase du jour, is also a religion. It’s not science because, according to the AGW knuckle-draggers, hot, cold, wet, or dry means global warming. For something to be science, you have to be able to prove it false. Because, it might be false. The theory is meaningless if everything “proves it true.”
I’m not exactly dancing on her grave, but what is up with everybody always trying to “preach people into heaven” when they die?
I read a recent quote from Elizabeth, that there were three things that gave her strength. God didn’t make the cut.
I wonder why she went along with the lie. She played the part during the campaign. They used their marriage as some great love story IN THEIR CAMPAIGN, knowing all along he was a scoundrel. She supported pro-abortion politicians. She lived a life of extreme wealth, built upon the backs of others (gotta love them trial lawyers).
So this is one preacher that won’t preach her into Heaven. That is for God to decide. Because from what I CAN see, it doesn’t look good. People don’t get to go to Heaven just because they died and aren’t Hitler.
I will pray for Elizabeth and her children, for they all have suffered more than enough during her short time on earth. Elizabeth may not be the Saint as portrayed by her political friends and the MSM, but I recognize her strength and courage in the face of adversity, captured by the unrelenting public eye.
I will also say a small prayer for some of those here who don’t seem to have the good grace and common decency of knowing when to STFU!
Rogue Cheddar said:
We’re not at her funeral, cracking jokes in front of her kids. What I am doing is being honest.
When there is a death, it is a good time to reflect on life, and what comes after death.
Which is more humane, to pretend we all go to Heaven just for dying (even as many go to their doom), or warning people as they consider their own mortality, so perhaps they will repent?
I expect the lame stream media to preach her into Heaven, but we shouldn’t be hearing this stuff from God-fearing conservatives.
This same stuff happened when Robert C. Byrd and Teddy Kennedy passed. Will we have a moment of silence when Kim Jong Il dies, too?
Look, my hope is for all to be saved. But pretending all will be saved won’t help save anyone.
Speaking of Ted Kennedy…
When he died, I think he went to Hell.
Requiescat in Pace, Elizabeth.
I feel for this woman’s medical condition and suffering, and for the family she leaves behind.
When the whole “Elizabeth Edwards” cancer/infidelity thing started, my wife was soooooooo in awe of her, for her courage and example. I downloaded her book onto our Kindle for my wife to read.
After seeing the lady on several talk shows, my wife changed her mind about Elizabeth. Especially how she believed her husband was telling the truth.
She never read the book. I just now deleted it from the old Kindle.
In this case, the criteria are quite simple. And your utter lack of taste and sense of decorum is tribute enough to the kind of person you are.
For someone who doesn’t want to be reminded of this story you certainly are making an effort to jump right in. Nobody is making you read the news of Edwards’ death. And yet here you are…
Why have a Hell if it’s not going to be used when needed?
Naw, he drove across the river Styx.
One thing I can never figure out…
Why do we admire women, who are either clueless, or liars, about their husbands shortcomings?
Hillary is F’n Sec State, for no reason except she married and put up with a philandering husband…
And now, for the next few days, we will hear about this ad nauseum…
My Father, who died of brain cancer, and led an exemplary life, was never talked about EXCEPT by those who actually knew and admired him…
Yet now, its National News that a Politicians wife… who really did NOTHING else in her life, except lie for her man…
But then… if it bleeds, it leads… I guess…
Hey 123, I agree that the media goes nuts over high profile people who have died. Yes, more people in this Country knew “of” Mrs Edwards than some local person. There are no media ratings for Uncle Bruce’s passing.
My dad passed away 34 years ago. The graveside service was over and people were still driving thru the gate to attend. No media was to be seen. No newspaper article. Just the one’s he touched as he lived the DASH on his tombstone.
By all means be honest, and like a fart in Church, some may appreciate the honesty of it, others may deem it not sufficiently apropo.
She is one democrat I would have like to see win a battle.
RIP
“RIP,” rises the anguished cries.
Okay, RIP, then. But couldn’t we wrap a couple of turns of heavy chain around the vault just to be on the safe side?
Call me a bad person, but “Who cares?”
Her husband is a scumbag and she was complicit in his dealings. In my eyes, she was as dirty as he continues to be.
even if they did require proof, the forged document industry is already tooling up to create the necessary documentation.
If this goes through, we’re finished as a nation.
Yes, she was as dirty as him. She lied to us all to further her amibitions to get to the WH.
God bless the children though as they don’t deserved to bear the sins of their parents.
I lost my own mother to cancer about three years ago. It is an awful way to go. God bless you, Mrs. Edwards, and God help your children; they’re stuck with only the philandering Breck Girl for a parent.
Rogue Cheddar said:
What a classy post. You sure taught me a thing or two about being classy!
Unfortunately, Cheddar, some people just were not brought up right.
Glad I could help. Now get out there and use them new found skills!
purplepeep said:
Ah, now you’re attacking my upbringing.
I wasn’t brought up to be politically correct.
I don’t believe everybody goes to heaven when they die, and I don’t like it when people supposedly representing Christianity act like they do.
I don’t believe Islam is a religion of peace.
I don’t believe homosexuality is a valid lifestyle choice; it is immoral and against nature.
I know, shame on me for being so intolerant.
I follow the One who said, “Let the dead bury their own dead.” I guess He wasn’t politically correct either.
123 – When it’s your time to die, I absolutely promise to speak only kind words of you…
… so what-say you get about that with a quickness.
– MD
Errah
So what’s your point??!!
Muscle Daddy, you are unbelievable. You hope I hurry up and die because I get annoyed by the hoopla surrounding Ms. Edwards. However, Ms. Edwards, a believer in public health care, unions, ever-expanding government and the like, God rest her soul. Difference between the two of us of course is she died of cancer and I obviously haven’t. I wonder if Charles Manson came down with Parkison’s, whether or not the wonderful community of MM would suddenly change their tune and start to speak compassionately of him.
I don’t care if those who attack me insult my decency as a person because you guys have shown your mentailities. All one has to do is become ill and pass and you instantly have nothing but nice things to say about them – not much of a set of standards.
No one is a bad person because they dont ‘feel something’ about E. Edwards death. But hurling insults after a person’s passing, especially someone you don’t even know, says a lot about you, and it ain’t nice.
Facinating moral equivalency argument about Edwards and Manson. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, anyone here would question your illness!
123upnorth – I am happy to pray for your return to good health for the Lord hears my cries. I did not respect Ms. Edwards’ positions, especially on abortion. So, all of the media attention is a little disconcerting. HOWEVER, her children are innocent of their parents’ public sins, so, for them, I pray God delivers peace and comfort during this sad time where they are forced to be in the public eye–think how difficult it must be for them.
My sister was diagnosed with the same cancer at the same time Elizabeth was…. metastasized breast cancer involving the bones.
When Mrs. Edwards announced that she would campaign with her husband I was all too familiar with horrific effects of the ‘treatable but not curable’ disease. I frankly could not believe her husband would even consider involving his very ill wife in a demanding campaign, regardless of her desire to stand by him. I felt he should bag it, put his ego somewhere else for a change and concentrate on her and her struggle. After discovering how truly narcisstic and self-consumed he was with his very visible affair, I understood that he was incapable of such a sacrifice.
I don’t think it’s possible to describe the horror of this terrible disease and what I’m sure Mrs. Edwards went through … painkillers that don’t really kill the pain, nausea every single day for 2 1/2 years, broken bones, hip replacements…. and much, much more. No one should have to go through such suffering and also learn that your husband of many years and father of your children is a worthless jerk, and has betrayed you in every way he possibly could,
My sister died a year before Elizabeth. I know what they both went through. I don’t think of Mrs. Edwards’ politics, but her suffering and I feel deep sympathy for her and her family.
Her husband deserves nothing but contempt.