Ed Kilgore makes a good point regarding the Edwards announcement yesterday:

What would have otherwise been a press conference disclosing and contextualizing a health condition not known to the public instead became a “surprise” announcement that the Edwards campaign would go on, exposing the candidate to accusations of insufficient concern for his wife’s health.

This provides a fair context to the conference that does affect my previous views. Rush Limbaugh’s nasty comments regarding the situation don’t make it any easier to criticize.

But I still can’t help but feel uncomfortable with such a personal matter being made so deliberately public. Whether or not this press conference was improperly hyped by false rumors of Edwards leaving the race, it was still guaranteed to create a media frenzy around a personal family situation. Perhaps Edwards has simply taken the politics is personal mantra a little too far for comfort.