John Edwards, Elizabeth and the Fog

John Edwards is going to continue in his campaign. Elizabeth Edwards supports this. John Edwards doesn't seem to know about the fog. The future isn't cloudy for them- it is foggy. The reality is that Elizabeth Edwards will die from her invasive breast cancer. How long it will take and how it will go, well, who can tell? But now they are in the fog. They are adults and while the fog is painful, and scary, as adults- they know that while they walk forward, eventually they will hit a wall that will reveal all. But don't these people have small children? And aren't John and Elizabeth the parents? Children don't do well in the fog. Not at all. They need their parents to hold their hands throughout it all. If John Edwards is on the campaign trail- or worse gets elected (which wouldn't happen anyway)- and if Elizabeth is having chemotherapy or radiation therapy- who holds the hand of the children? John Edwards will live to see another wife. That may sound cruel- but find me a man who hasn't gone on after the death of his wife. John Edwards can be around to run again. But the callous and egotistical behavior of a man who insists he is so valuable that he cannot step back to hold his wife and children in whatever safety net he can muster, well, who would vote for that man anyway?