Nothing stays personal in politics, not marriage, not divorce, not your kid's drug problem, and not cancer, as presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, demonstrated yesterday when they held a press conference in the garden in North Carolina where they were married more than 30 years earlier.
This time they were there to announce they had just learned that Elizabeth had Stage 4 cancer, treatable but incurable.
As much as the illness is personal, the announcement was, by necessity, political....
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