Elizabeth Edwards likes Hillary Clinton’s health care plan.

John Edwards doesn’t much care for Clinton’s “old politics.”

So goes the his-and-her debate in the Edwards household.

Their home state of North Carolina takes center stage today in the tense, ongoing Democratic presidental nomination fight between Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama, and two of its most famous voters aren’t tipping their hands.

In their first joint interview since John Edwards dropped out of the race, the couple was asked what they liked and disliked about the two remaining Democrats.

Elizabeth Edwards didn’t hesitate: “I like Hillary’s health care plan.”

John and Elizabeth Edwards in North Carolina.

What doesn’t she like about the U.S. Senator from New York and former First Lady? “The lobbyist money,” she said.

On Barack Obama, she says: “The fact that he has motivated so many young people to be involved, I think is fantastic.” But, she adds: “I don’t like his health care plan or his advertising on health care, which I think is misleading.”

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Democratic candidate John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, who recently revealed that her breast cancer has returned, have no regrets about their decision to continue his campaign.

Strangely enough, People magazine has a really interesting interview with the two of them about it, having caught up with the former North Carolina Senator and his wife in Santa Monica, Calif. Here are some excerpts…

People: Both your diagnosis and your decision to keep campaigning in the 2008 presidential race have been big news.

Elizabeth Edwards: We expected some attention to it, but we didn’t expect sort of wall-to-wall coverage of it. Some of that is gratifying, honestly, because it’s been a conversation about health care or about what it’s like to be living with cancer. Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you’re in political life, you’re used to having those analyzed. But the day after day after day of analysis of decisions about which we feel as secure as you can under these circumstances is actually more grueling than what today would be like without that – despite the diagnosis.

This is an intensely personal decision about how we want to live our lives. As long as it’s not illegal and not hurting anybody … Actually, we watched [ABC's This Week with] Cokie Roberts, and Sam Donaldson was saying, ‘Well, people might not vote for (John Edwards).’ And she said, ‘Then don’t vote for him! But don’t judge them on the personal decisions they made.’

People: How did you tell your young children, Emma Claire, 8, and Jack, 6?

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