How charming. Right.

I guess John Edwards and his wife are taking after his former election running-mate, John Kerry.

Edwards signals shift against war---

Throughout his campaign for president and then vice president in 2004, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina made it clear that the death of his teenage son in a car accident was off-limits, not for discussion in a political context.

But now his wife, Elizabeth, has sent an e-mail to supporters voicing a connection she shares with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. As Sheehan was camped near President Bush's Texas ranch, protesting the war, Edwards called on her own family's backers to support Sheehan.

And, in a departure from a campaign-trail silence that the Edwardses kept about the death of their 16-year-old son, Wade, Elizabeth Edwards noted that Sheehan's son, Casey, 24, died in Iraq eight years to the day after her own son.

For John Edwards, who voted as a senator to support the invasion of Iraq, his wife's outreach to subscribers of their One America Committee Web site bears a distinct anti-war voice that could augur a new tack for Edwards as he prepares for a potential run for president in 2008.

"The president says he knows enough, doesn't need to hear from Casey's mother, doesn't need to assure her that Casey's is not one small death in a long and seemingly never-ending drip of deaths, that there is a plan here that will bring our sons and daughters home," Elizabeth Edwards wrote in her e-mail last week. "He claims he understands how some people feel about the deaths in Iraq. The president is wrong."

The President already met with Casey's mother, assured her that Casey's death would not be in vain.

Elizabeth Edwards is wrong. John Edwards is wrong. And is he really considering running for President in 2008? His own constituents did not want him back as their senator and the people of the United States rejected him.

The Kedwards ticket tried to run on a sort of "I voted for the war before I voted against it---so I was for the war and now I'm against it" ticket and failed. John and Elizabeth should head home and shut their mouths. No one wants to hear them.