An open letter to John Edwards

Dear Senator Edwards,

There is more to life than being President of the United States. I realize you fell just a hair short of the Vice Presidency in 2004. I understand you have a lot of ideas and the desire and belief that you can win this thing. But let me be blunt: you have plenty of time to mount another Presidential campaign. Your wife, however, does not have plenty of time to spend with her husband. You know as well as I do that cancer will eventually claim her life. This is a mathematical certainty.

Your candidacy for the White House is not mathematical certainty. In fact, an honest and dispassionate look at the numbers indicates very clearly that your chances of winning the Democrat nomination are very, very slim. Campaigns are tiring, grueling and expensive affairs. And while she is an activist who believes in you, you need to ask yourself if you are being fair to her as her husband. She believes in you and believes you can be President. But it's not going to happen in 2008.

Do the right thing, Senator Edwards. Step down from the campaign and be there for your wife.