GREAT Elizabeth Edwards article from Newsweek

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<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4340666/>

[Faygo Kid]

1. Great article, but damn, people, post an excerpt, willya?

Thanks for the heads up, but many will pass by your post because you posted no indication of what it is about, or any excerpt from the article. Just takes copying a couple of times, but if it's worth posting, it's worth doing. And this was worth posting.

[AP]

2. Here's one:

Often a presidential contender's spouse is defined by the way she complements the candidate, and is seen as providing some supposedly missing ingredient: Tipper was Al's heart, according to this shorthand, and Laura tells George what's in the morning papers. John and Elizabeth Edwards, though, are very much alike, two true believers who came out of modest backgrounds with an extravagant sense of the possible. And this is how Mrs. Edwards assesses her husband's against-the-odds fight for the nomination: "I have complete confidence in him, I do,'' she says, kicking off her shoes in the back of the campaign van as we settle in for a two-hour talk between stops in northern California. "I am so certain that he would make not just a good but a great president, and I can't believe the American people wouldn't see that. We've got the guy.''

[mbali]

3. My favorite part . . .

"Always, their home in Raleigh, N.C., was the neighborhood hangout. And she was the mom with a thousand projects, like making her kids elaborate Halloween costumes every year. Step by step—as if I might actually try this at home — she explains how she grew grass on a bunch of sweat suits one year, so Wade and eight of his friends could trick-or-treat as a nine-hole golf course: '... then you mist it every day for two weeks and you have grass, unless you're Walter Hobbs. In his case none came up. I don't think his mother misted.' So, hey, she glued sand on his suit and Walter went as a sand trap."

[AP]

4. And this:

Growing up on a military base, she says in our interview, "you live in government housing, which is usually not wonderful, and it's like living in a small town—you can't avoid people—but you do have the opportunity to peek out at the world.'' Life abroad wasn't always so broadening, though: "The truth was, you're 15 years old and you sort of wish you knew what people were wearing back in the States and doing back there, and you spent some part of the time wishing you could be part of that.'' Her mother put out a base newspaper and organized a thrift shop to raise money for charity, then late in life went back for a master's degree and became a librarian. Elizabeth also loved books and wanted to teach American literature. "What I really wanted was to teach people to love to read.''

What she says about her favorite writer, Henry James, probably explains the Edwardses' consistently long-view attitude toward an awfully short campaign season: "You've got to have patience, but if you're a reader and you love baseball, you love James; it's a little play here and there, not constant scoring. The truth of most anything is not in some big statement but in small things, and that's what James recognized. That and the fact that we're constantly making moral choices.''

[Faygo Kid]

6. Thanks to both! Now we're talkin!

I will vote for ABB; wait till you see what's coming, starting tonight, from the Right with their unlimited resources. I think DU will coalesce soon.

[SangamonTaylor]

5. kick

that's a great article that really shows off the powerful synergy of Edwards & Edwards.

[maxanne]

7. Elizabeth Edwards

is a total babe. I wish she'd run for office. In fact, we told her that when she was here.