Perspective on Her Side, Mrs. Edwards Enters Fray

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and PATRICK HEALY
WASHINGTON, June 30 — Three months after Elizabeth Edwards said that her cancer had returned in inoperable form, her role and influence in John Edwards’s presidential campaign is undiminished. She has made a flurry of charged public appearances, become a regular presence advising Mr. Edwards on the campaign trail, and wields behind-the-scenes influence in many internal campaign decisions, aides said.

Mrs. Edwards has also become a free operator on behalf of her husband of 29 years, a development that her friends suggest reflects the clarity and perspective that come from her cancer diagnosis, and her increasingly confident political instincts as she advises Mr. Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat, in his second White House bid.

When Mrs. Edwards called in to a television talk show this week to confront the conservative commentator Ann Coulter who had attacked Mr. Edwards this year, it was a decision that Mrs. Edwards said she made impulsively and on her own. The resulting dramatic four minutes of television created a surge of attention that at least momentarily electrified her husband’s campaign, winning applause from the left and apparently spiking contributions in the critical final days of this second-quarter fund-raising period.

Please read the rest of this column at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/us/politics/01edwards.html?ei=5065&en=f5b7d9d4ba2a64da&ex=1183867200&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

Comment from the Owner: Get a grip. Ann Coulter as loud and irratating as she may be, she is still only a columnist. This "Lady's" Husband is running for President and she is battling cancer. You would think she would have better things to do than worry about what some inflamatory columnist had to save. On the other hand it would be real nice if her husband had half as much testarone flowing thru his veins as she does.


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