“If We Don’t Get a Hold of Ourselves, We Will Wear Out Elizabeth Edwards Long Before Her Cancer Does.”

That’s the gist of this very good article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, whose reporter noticed that on a recent trip to Ohio, poor Mrs. Edwards couldn’t each lunch because press photographers needed (apparently) another five hundred pictures of The Woman Who Dares to Keep Campaigning With Cancer. It’s a solid article, and touches on the idea that the press, by second-guessing the Edwards’ decision to not cancel the campaign, is imposing its standards on a couple who have every right to do as they please. The best embodiment of that is this video compilation from Katie Couric’s 60 Minutes interview, which I’ll run without comment other than to say I found it on post called “Leave Elizabeth Edwards Alone” at AmericaBlog. “Some say….”