Tests Show Tony Snow's Cancer Has Returned

Now lets hear the ohhhhhhh so Christian Republicans, Cable News, and the Media, Yapping their mouths off. Maybe they might give Elizabeth Edwards a little privacy now for a while.

AP March 27, 2007 08:49 AM

Presidential spokesman Tony Snow's surgery to remove a small growth showed that his cancer has returned, the White House said Tuesday.

Snow, 51, had his colon removed in 2005 and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer. A small growth was discovered last year in his lower right pelvic area, and it was removed on Monday. Doctors determined that it was cancerous, and that his cancer had metastized, or spread, to his liver, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.

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Elizabeth Edwards. Because it matters.

Kari Chisholm

In the wake of Katie Couric's 60 Minutes interrogation of John and Elizabeth Edwards, there's a good amount of blowback headed Katie's way - as there rightly should be.

Cue David Sirota:

This was no ordinary interview - this was a televised guilt trip. She stated as fact to John Edwards that he is supposedly "putting your work first, and your family second." She also pulled the "some say" technique, claiming that an unnamed "some" say that in making this decision, Edwards is displaying "a case of insatiable ambition."

There are lots of good reasons why she's wrong - and Sirota covers a bunch - but here's the one reason that I think that Katie Couric, and much of the mainstream media, are getting this story wrong.

They're assuming that running for president is purely about your own personal ambition and self-aggrandizement. If it were, then the "drop everything and stay home" logic makes sense.

But if you think that running for president is about changing the world, and that you've got the ability and opportunity to affect the lives of millions in an important, meaningful, and positive way... then how could you stop running for president?

If you believe that you have a calling to do great things, a mission to serve America, then how could you possibly drop it - even in the face of cancer? If this is the most important thing you could do with your life, how could you stop, even if that life looks to be a little shorter today than it did last month. Especially if.

And make no mistake, this is as much a mission for Elizabeth Edwards as it is for John.

Katie Couric and the rest of the nattering nabobs don't get it. Why? Because they think of politics in a purely partisan and horse-race kind of way - who's up, who's down, who's in, who's out.

They're watching the scoreboard, and failing to recognize that there are still some of us who believe that politics is a noble calling, an opportunity to change the world. And believe it or not, some of those idealistic folks are even running for President.

Out here in the real world, there are still lots of us who get it.

[Full disclosure: I've volunteered to help out with the Oregon for Edwards steering committee, but - contrary to some reports - I'm not working for the Edwards campaign in any capacity. And I definitely don't speak for John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, the campaign, or anyone but myself.]

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