From a reader:

This article is absolutely absurd.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/20050822/ts_chicagotrib/edwardssignalsshiftagainstwar
First of all, it’s Edwards’ wife who is coming out against the war, not Edwards himself. This might be skillful political maneuvering, but Edwards has, so far as I can tell, not really changed his stance.
The other bizzare twist is the way the article ends:
“Rob Tully, a Des Moines lawyer who campaigned for John Edwards in 2004, suggests that Elizabeth Edwards’ battle with cancer since the election has given her an added perspective.
“She has gone through her own life-threatening experience, and that is life-changing,” Tully said.”
Are we really supposed to think that Edwards’ wife has some unique perspective on war because she had cancer? Is the liberal opposition to the war that desperate? Who in there right mind thinks that having cancer gives you an “added perspective” into the war in Iraq?
More than any other development in this Sheehan business, this latest addition to the drivel shows (to me, anyway) that the media really has no interest in intelligent discussion of the war in Iraq. It’s all about “added perspective” (read: “feelings).
Call it the “Maury Povichization” of the war on terror.