Wow, I just read this article in the New York Times and I have to say like several other bloggers it gave me a bit of the willies.

“I don’t want to do this,” Jack protested to his father, John Edwards, the Democratic presidential candidate and former North Carolina senator.

“I don’t care whether you want to do this,” Mr. Edwards replied.

A moment later, Jack hid his face in his hands.

“Mr. Jack, do we need to go in the back and have a conversation?” asked Mr. Edwards, lifting his son’s head.

The boy sat for a few more minutes, fidgety but obedient, before being freed and happily bounding with his sister to the fort they were building in the back of the bus.

Honestly reading the article makes me wonder if those comments made by Michelle Obama about keeping your house straight or whatever, that were seen as directed at Sen. Clinton, were really directed at the Edwards family who has chosen to rip their children from their homes and keep them on a bus to appear in photo ops.

The Edwards have made it a point to be public and as techPresident’s Morra Aarons wonderfully recaps that has resulted in a public spat in which blogger Rebecca Eisenberg openly questioned the parenting choices of Elizabeth Edwards. Morra covers the whole thing so make sure to check out her post.