The third among those who might agree with me on the proper nature of our beloved Democratic Party is John Edwards. It is only recently that he seems to have found his voice on this subject, although his entire professional life as an attorney has been spent as an advocate for the poor, the powerless, and the accused.
But now that he HAS found his voice, and has been repeatedly and specifically harping on the dangers to our domestic society and our international stature that the rise of corporate hegemony represents in America, I believe that John Edwards may be not only the most electable of our current crop of candidates, but might also be the most effective in putting our nation back on the track of social justice, economic equity, and the effective diplomacy that might help restore America's power to accomplish beneficial goals on the world stage.
Furthermore, I believe that John Edwards will, or at least sincerely intends to, take significant steps to improve our rapidly crumbling infrastructure and provide the conditions to achieve a level of prosperity and peace that we've not known yet in this century. I KNOW that he will pursue policies that are beneficial to our environment and that will restore the dignity of our workers, policies that will, among other things make our products more competitive worldwide by removing the onerous burden of providing health care off of the shoulders of our industry and onto our government where it belongs. He will end the 25-year war on unionism that has resulted in the decline of our overall standard of living, and will implement steps to improve our public education.
So, while I want to make it clear that I will support whichever of our candidates receives our nomination, I will be casting my vote in the primary for John Edwards, because not only do I believe that he shares my own views closely, I believe that his presidency would be the best for America, and I believe that John Edwards will, BY FAR, be the easiest of all of our candidates to elect next November in what might be our final chance to rescue our nation from its fall into right-wing despotism and corporate feudalism.
Vote for John Edwards in your primaries, please. He's the guy we need.
Yep, although Edwards' message was much the same as it was four years ago, and it was buried by the corporate media like it is now.
I just hope Democrats don't buy the Clinton/Obama hype being forced down their throats in the hopes the corporate elite and Republicans get the sacrificial lamb they want for the general election.
