Well-stated, Elizabeth. People who have not had cancer do NOT understand. Until they have walked in your shoes, they need to stop judging you. I have had cancer and I pray each night for you.

It's quantity time, not quality time that kids need.

Dear Elizebeth,
i admire you as a person. but, please do not attack Hillary. find another way to help your husband. Hillary Clinton has done many things this country and women all over the world.
Elizebeth, stop giving Hillary a direction. last time you said " Hillary needs to bring better health coverage for all". Hillary does not need your lession.
Elizebeth, no mather what i said. i will pray for you

At least she isn't hiding, and making John go out to defend her . . . unlike him hiding behind her skirt.
And "savethemiddleclass," where in the story is there an attack on people with cancer???? Wake the heck up, and read it again, and rethink your idiotic comments next time!

"Blog savvy"? Please.

Campaigning IS the Edwards' job at the moment and the children are innocent victims of their so very tired attempts at another 15 seconds of fame.

I'm just hoping the kids aren't run over by the next ambulance John decides to chase.

... getting so tired of big-mouth Elizabeth Edwards and her kind of in your face, narcissistic politics. Yes, we're sorry you have a terminal disease. We hope you don't turn into one of those walking cadavers. In fact, we don't want to see you do that. Go away. Take your children home. Give them some of yourself so that when you are dead, their only memory isn't how their childhood was usurped by their parent's overweening ambitions - all spun out on their psychotherapist's couch.

All of your comments are... "weird". Politics are important, but when we lose our humanness we've got nothing.

Where do these people get off "judging" this remarkable woman whose life is an example of courage and loyalty and love? Their attacks say more about their limitations than they do about Elizabeth Edwards. She is using all the strength she has to help her husband because she believes he will make the best President, and she is teaching her children what it means to fight for what you believe in. It would be interesting indeed to see the differences in the adults Elizabeth Edwards' children become as compared to those being raised by such critical, judgemental, narrow minds.

Such negativity against Mrs. Edwards sounds suspiciously like politically motivated campaign attacks to me. What a low tactic to attack the wife and not the candidate. Tacky, tacky, foul.

This cat-fighting seems to be typical of leftist women in politics. The lack of personal dignity is appalling. Miz Edwards cowardly grandstanding ambushing attack against Anne Coulter is a case in point. Hillary has not done anything but ignore her husbands' horrific abuse of women in order to advance her own political agenda. Neither of them have earned a place in the history books of great American women.

ToddonCapeCod: Maybe "YOU" better wake the heck up and read the entire article again. Elizabeth's response was, "You don't get to judge me because you think you know exactly what you would do if you had my disease." I did not state that the article was an attack on people with cancer. I stated that people who had not had cancer did not understand Elizabeth's decision. There is a big difference in those two statements; therefore, your comment is the one that is idiotic. What do you feel a need to attack anyone whose opinion does not agree with your own??

In my view there seems to be a trend for women to dog each other lately. There are entirely too many sanctimonious women in general out there and they all need to back it up. A whole bunch of these mommy blogs will prove what I speak of. I really do giggle at all of the heat all the men seem to have towards this woman. Accusing John of hiding behind her. What's really bugging them is that Elizabeth got Coulter at her own game more than anything. I guess all you boys would prefer Mrs. Bush - the woman that doesn't put herself out there for anything other than decoration at all times. It's 2007. Sorry if the gals bug you.

Dear Ms. Elizabeth Edwards:

Obviously, it appears as if the writer prefers to be you - have your political lifestyle. People who generally judge others are lacking within themselves. There is no one qualified to judge your family. You are one of the nations most role model for women. If anyone who says anything less - then that is what they are less.

God Bless you & your husband during this political mess!

Although I don't care to make a judgment about Elizabeth Edwards' parenting style, it's silly to say that others must also refrain. Her husband is running for president and she's been very vocally touting herself and her "choices" as a reason why he should be elected. Furthermore, she has not stinted in her judgments of others. The fact that she tried to pretend that she hadn't been slamming Sen. Clinton when she got called on it, only makes her deceitful as well as sanctimonious. (Like her husband, she seems to want to score political points just for living.) Finally, the fact that she lashes out against others for evaluating her life in the same way as she evaluates others shows that she can dish it out but not take it. A gracious response would have been smarter, not to mention more, well, gracious. The more I hear, the more I do not like.

As a male, I admire Mrs.Edwards courage and her dedication to making our country a better place. I think that it is very easy for those who are not in the arena to judge the core beleifs of others when they themselves have nothing at risk. I say to Mrs. Edwards keep speaking out and continue to demonstrate to your children and the world,the need for those of us who have so much to help those who do not. I encourage her to continue display her wisdom as it relates to our country and those who criticize her word will benefit from her deeds. I for one am sorry she is not the woman canidate for president. Her honesty and forth-rightness is indeed refreshing. I also appreciate that she refuses to play the victim card like Mrs. Clinton attempts to do.

I admire Elizabeth Edwards.. What I don't admire are people that think they can live your life better than you are. Some of these comments only show why the country is in the shape it is in now.. No one needs to hear Elizabeth Edwards is not a good Mother. I believe her children would tell you they love her.. I think Elizabeth Edwards is a women that deserves respect for Loving this Country and the less fortunate of this country and being evolved in things that Help others.. Supporting her husband believing he loves this Country and would be able to bring change in the direction the Country is going in. Maybe some of you have not noticed were the Country is headed we need change.. Go get them Elisabeth we still have free speech in the Country.. John Edwards has my vote..

For John D. Patriot
How can you put Anne Coulter and Elizabeth Edwards in the same sentence???? Anne Coulter’s mouth is like a sewer with nothing but vile ugly words come out of it. There is nothing to compare…. NJ

How about some real news about John Edwards instead of all this gossip all the time.

Oh please - Hillary didn't do SQUAT to save the lives of millions of children, or help women's right. UGH. If anything was improved in these areas, it had nothing, absolutely NOTHING to do with Hillary Clinton. She may have been in the same country where such things occurred, but it galls me that she is credited for having done SO much for humanity, when in fact, she has NO record of doing ANYTHING useful at all.

It is very telling to see the detractors in the Liz & Hillary Show go after each other like Vick's Pit Bulls over their feminism, masculinity or lack of it. As painful as it was to watch Bill Clinton's bizarre,awkward attempt to defend Hillary's feminism, it is even harder to watch Mother Liz constantly rescue her girlyman husband from his emasculated campaign. Liberal feminist 'family values' being what they are require this type of theater so as to not 'offend' anyone. Say what you will about Republican perversions, 'perversity is still diversity' in the family of the Liberal Democrat.

It is very telling to see the detractors in the Liz & Hillary Show go after each other like Vick's Pit Bulls over their feminism, masculinity or lack of it. As painful as it was to watch Bill Clinton's bizarre,awkward attempt to defend Hillary's femininity, it is even harder to watch Mother Liz constantly rescue her girlyman husband from his emasculated campaign. Liberal feminist 'family values' being what they are require this type of theater so as to not 'offend' anyone. So say what you will about Republican perversions, 'perversity is still diversity' in the mind of the Liberal Democrat.