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Sauce for goose but not for gander?

I feel very badly for Elizabeth Edwards. I feel equally badly for Tony Snow. But I had a similar thought to this one stolen from Garance Franke-Ruta at Tapped, the final paragraph of an item commisserating with Tony Snow about the metastization of cancer to his liver:

Note that there's no word here on whether or not he should "drop out" of the White House. Bush said he can't wait for Snow to resume his duties, and appears to be counting on him staying on the job, if his health permits it.

Exactly. Nobody should suggest that someone with cancer should stop doing what he or she wants to do as long as he or she can, and it's offensive that people do. Neither Ms. Franke-Ruta nor I have heard any calls for Tony Snow to quit his White House job, but there have been many such calls for John and Elizabeth Edwards to drop theirs.