Comments on: CBS Poll: Most Support Edwards' Decision

57% Say He's Right To Stay In Presidential Race

[vastr-wcon]

Couric's hatchet job on the Edwards didn't succeed. The majority of people know what's right, even if she doesn't.

Now that Couric has disgraced CBS and illustrated how far the former Tiffany network has fallen from the Murrow and Cronkite days, it's time to send her back to doing fluff interviews at 6 AM. Anyone would be better than her as the news anchor.

[anopinion1]

Just for your information, genius, there are not 47 million 'bums', as you call them, on the 'side of the street'. There are, however, 47 million American citizens (most of them hard-working) who have no health coverage. And, a further note... many of those 'bums' (as you so lovingly call them) are veterans suffering because they have seen things you can't even imagine. You greedy republicans are such tvrds!!
Posted by dallison7 at 11:21 AM : Mar 28, 2007

When i said "bum" i meant a real bum that actually lives in an alley way or whatever.
And according to what you want to have happen that bum, who lets say never worked a job or contributed to society in any way, can go to a hospital and get the same care and have to wait just as long for life and death surgery as Bill Gates??? or even the president in theory???

and most of the people who don't have health insurance choose not to have coverage because they want to save the money, even tho they spend 100 bucks a week on cigarettes and beer. aka college students. What is the age group on your statistic of 47 million uninsured people???? Although not having insurance is usually a bad idea the people who don't are in their 20's?? and probably don't need it.

I am very happy that Edwards is staying in the race. He has been my first choice all along. Perhaps campaigning and staying busy will actually help to keep them from focusing solely on the discomforts and fears associated with cancer. One of my friends who had breast cancer said that she preferred to work because it took her mind off her health problems.

[motherjones-2009]

Jebby_One

You are just flat out, dead wrong on this one. But I don't have any more time to beat a dead horse. I have to get back to work ---somebody's got to pay for bush's billionaire tax breaks.

[jebby_one]

If you knew anyone who had gone through this horrible ordeal, you wouldn't have to think twice about them losing weight.

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Yes and no. It goes both ways. One's weight is the result of calories in Vs calories out. While sick people often eat less they also have a reduced activity level and the net result may have them either losing or gaining weight. Or, in some case remaining constant.

Another factor is that sick people also often eat better and healthier because of the monitored and institutional environment of health care process. i.e. 3 meals a day, supplements if they skip meals or experience reduced appetite , etc., etc.

My mother was a poor eater in normal life and gained weight when she went to hospitals.

There was an obvious appearance chane with Liz. That Katie did NOT ask about it implies that this was a contrived infomercial.

[motherjones-2009]

sorr
y .. but I watched a brother die from brain cancer and his weight remained pretty constant from diagnosis until death a year and a half later.

posted by Jebby_One

If that's true, you didn't learn much, did you? It's pretty typical for sick people to lose weight. It doesn't take a medical genius to know that. And why do you so fixed on Elizabeth Edwards' appearance, anyway? And who are you to say that John Edwards is vain? How do you know that? Do you know him? Have you looked into his soul? Is it because he's better looking than most mean his age? He doesn't get dressed up like a cowboy or top gun and strut around on the decks of air craft carriers. Now that's VAIN!

[jebby_one]

If you knew anyone who had gone through this horrible ordeal, you wouldn't have to think twice about them losing weight.

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sorry .. but I watched a brother die from brain cancer and his weight remained pretty constant from diagnosis until death a year and a half later.

If Liz's case was as you say then Katie could have cleared it up with a frew questions, especially considering that "some people" believe that John Edwards is a somewhat vain individual who gives considerable attention to appearance.

[jebby_one]

There are, however, 47 million American citizens (most of them hard-working) who have no health coverage.

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don't many of these people qualify for MDICAID?

another thing that you fail to understand is that access to health care is skewed to the benefit of employer paid health insurance. In other words: Employers get a BIG tax break on health care benefits while people who pay for themselves get the middle finger.

Why? Because the neo-commies are intentionally making it difficult for these people to pay their own way and are using these people to force universal health on America.

[motherjones-2009]

Jebby_One

I'm not buying. If you knew anyone who had gone through this horrible ordeal, you wouldn't have to think twice about them losing weight. My husband, who was already trim, lost 13 lbs. the first week after chemo. And he lost a lot more after that. The sight, even the thought of food, made him retch. This is typical with chemo.

[dallison7]

did Mrs. Edwards go on a crash diet or or did she have a medical procedure performed so that she would look trimmer for her husband's presidential campaign?


Posted by Jebby_One

SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING THE BIG-BUTT LIBRARIAN 'LAURA' SHOULD HAVE DONE.