CNN, Greenfield: When Fate steps into the political arena.
“Do you want to hear God laugh? Make a plan.
We fret over the most minute details of our lives, stressing over critical decisions (plasma or LCD for that HDTV? Italian or Asian for that weekend dinner?) while Fate’s kindest or cruelest blows are utterly beyond our vision or control.
Nowhere is that more dramatically shown than in the world of politics.
Who gets to ride with the candidate from the plane to the reception; who stands behind her? What food gets served at the fundraiser? Are the pamphlets printed in a union shop on recycled paper?
And then Fate steps in — and reminds us of one of life’s most ineluctable truths.
The Edwards family has had more than its share of hammer blows, from the death of a son in a car crash, to Elizabeth’s breast cancer diagnosis that came in the weeks before the […]
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