Elizabeth Edwards with Wolf This Morning

[polichick]

She is such a lovely and intelligent woman ~ I could see her as president!

Every time she's interviewed I'm impressed with her knowledge of the issues and her ability to speak about them in simple and clear language.

Bless her ~ she's looking great too, inspite of her health and campaigning!

[Captain Hilts]

1. Of all the candidates and spouses last go 'round, she impressed me the most. nt

[venable]

2. her answer on the slogan "global war on terror'

was more clear, concise, and persuasive than could be delivered by any candidate. IMO.

Perfect. She makes Rudy's faux bona fides look silly, just by the clarity of her answer.

[polichick]

4. Yes, that was great!

I also loved her calm, cool, collected way of stating it.

[question everything]

6. She was great. Her replies Shrum

don't remember his name were excellent.

When she first introduced Edwards, by then her fiance, to a gay class mate, that gay person commented on how cute Edwards was and that, say Edwards, made him uncomfortble, not what Shrum wrote.

About his bashing Edwards for not going against the war:

EDWARDS: Can I tell you what really happened?

BLITZER: Please.

EDWARDS: There was a meeting on teacher tenure issues at our house that a number of people were at, and Bob Shrum was one of the people who came. He always liked to come to policy, thinks he's very interested in policy, and he always wanted to express his opinion.

At that meeting, which was entirely about education, at some point in the discussion, Bob Shrum -- I don't know whether Bob Shrum was the one who brought it up, but Iraq became a topic of conversation. It was not the purpose of the meeting. There were no foreign policy consultants there or advisers of any kind in the room because it was an education meeting.


About the global war on terror

Blitzer: Explain to our viewers what your husband, John Edwards, meant by that statement that the global war on terrorism is a bumper sticker or slogan but it's not really serious.

EDWARDS: If you think of the global war on terror, it's very big words, and it creates a very large frame. What happened to us on September 11, 2001, was we were attacked by a discreet group with a discreet leader on whom we had focused a lot of attention at first and when we focused attention on him, this is what we were doing. We were going to Afghanistan. We were routing the Al Qaida from its locations, we were suppressing the Taliban and establishing a free, elected government in Afghanistan.

When we got a larger frame, the global war on terror, we lost our focus and since then, we haven't accomplished what we needed. We haven't finished the job. We needed a laser and the global war on terror, that huge language, is a sledgehammer that allows us -- what it really has done, if you think about it and the Pentagon will tell you the same thing, is it took that sledgehammer and whammed it against Al Qaida.

It splintered every place, and instead of this vertically integrated terrorist group against us, now we have lots of splinters, much harder to contain, much harder to deal with. We're going to find them periodically as they act, as the splinters that call themselves Al Qaida and the ones that do not, we're going to find them as we have with the JFK plot. But we've created a much more difficult situation to contain.

BLITZER: But just to be precise, Senator Edwards believes there are terrorists out there who hate the United States...

EDWARDS: Absolutely.

BLITZER: ... who hate Americans and want to see them dead.

EDWARDS: He absolutely does. He just thinks the frame is so large that it doesn't allow us the narrow focus we need and, in addition, becomes this -- if you think of it as a picture into which you can stick everything as we stick -- "Yes, we can torture because we have the global war on terror. Yes, we can excuse our failure to follow the Geneva Conventions because we have the global war on terror. Yes, we can spy on Americans because we have the global war on terror." It becomes a great, big excuse for things when we really need a laser to go after the terrorists that are clearly there and we clearly need to route out.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/03/le.01.html

[MaineDem]

3. She was on Wait Wait Don't Tell me on NPR yesterday

She's an amazing woman.

And I love that radio show. If you haven't heard it here's the link. http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/index.html

[iamjoy]

5. I Loved Her With Peter Sagal Yesterday

she was so funny. They had been talking about the haircut. Then they went into the questions and mentioned Lindsay Lohan's $19,000 a month rehab. And Elizabeth said, "that haircut's looking cheap."

I also thought it was funny when Peter said if he had been her, he would have tried to strangle Katie Couric for that interview. But Eliazabeth was so gracious, in response to Sagal asking if it made her mad that people who didn't know her criticised the Edwards's decision (to keep running), Elizabeth said, "It's because they don't know us."

I thought, wow, what a woman. Funny thing is, at first, superficial glance, you think she got lucky to get him. But when you hear her speak, you realize John is the lucky one to have her. The more I see and hear of Elizabeth Edwards, the more beautiful she becomes.