Talk:Elizabeth Edwards

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Contents 1 2006 Update 2 2005 Update 3 2004 Update 4 Elizabeth Edwards' Blogosphere Participation 5 Photo 6 cancer 7 Tangerine incident

[edit] 2006 Update

I changed the first words of the article from "Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards" to "Elizabeth Edwards," for a few lines down the report is made she was born "Mary Elizabeth Anania"; she has been known as "Elizabeth" almost all her life and the reference to "Mary" is confusing (I myself have paid close attention to the Edwards campaign and "Mary" was new to me.) I definitely agree with Moncrief (below) that the entry should go under the name Elizabeth Edwards, not Elizabeth Anania Edwards. Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Edwards no longer uses her maiden name in any way, and in fact she has stated that she "changed" her name to Elizabeth Edwards after the death of their son Wade. After the death of Wade, the oldest Edwards child, Elizabeth Edwards retired from her legal career; she has referred to herself as a "recovering attorney." She has not performed work as an attorney since 1996 and does in fact refer to herself as a former attorney. I made that change. --ChicagoPete 12:18, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2005 Update

I've changed the picture of Elizabeth Edwards, as the old one was not fit for any sort of encyclopaedic entry, or for human eyes :P! --Harro5 09:40, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] 2004 Update

I really think this entry for presumptive Dem VP nominee John Edwards' wife should go under Elizabeth Edwards. How many people are going to do a search for her using her middle (maiden?) name as well? Not many. I've done a redirect from Elizabeth Edwards for now, but really think it should be changed to the primary title. Moncrief 17:27, Jul 9, 2004 (UTC)

1. Why are no sources referenced in this article, in particular for the assertion that "It is widely speculated that Elizabeth may still become America's First Lady"?

2. With regard to "Her husband led other potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in a June 2006 poll, held in Iowa" here's a reference for the Iowa Poll conducted in June 2006 by Selzer & Co. for the Des Moines Register:

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060611/NEWS09/606110338/1001/archive

There one learns that of "399 Iowa registered voters who are likely Democratic caucus participants" 30% chose (John) Edwards and 26% chose (Hillary) Clinton in a poll with a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points. Whatever significance this poll may have, perhaps reference to it more appropriately belongs under the entry for Ms. Edwards' husband John.

[edit] Elizabeth Edwards' Blogosphere Participation

Just wondering what anybody thinks about whether her involvement in the blogosphere merits mention. Add to that the receent Marcotte controversy. Not primarily intending to self-promote, but this is outlined here. --WWB 06:22, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

I noticed the image lacks a fair-use rationale. Perhaps we can use this image from Flickr instead? It's licensed under the CC-Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. We can crop the image to show only her face. --Blueag9 (Talk | contribs) 07:51, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] cancer

Mrs Edwards, I am a cancer survivor of breast cancer and lung cancer. I am now being treated for stage 4 colon cancer, a small tumor in the colon and 50 small tumors in my abdomemn and 20 small tumors on my liver. I have had 5 chemo treatemnts and have been on a macrobiotic healing diet. My cancer marker has gone down rom 173 to 8, normal is between 0 and 5. I attritube my great success with the diet as well as the chemo. I know without the diet I would probabbly not survive. I had emailed your husband but I am not sure he has read this. I wish you would look into this diet which puts your body in an alkiline state. I am sure youn would be able to beat the cancer if you did. If you would like more information on this diet please email me a gingertwst11@comcast.net.

Ginger Luskin —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.37.161.64 (talk) 21:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Tangerine incident

Someone should write up her giving up tangerines to lower her carbon footprint (but not her huge mansion or private jet).--Rotten 05:47, 28 July 2007 (UTC)