"... one candidate stands out above the rest: John Edwards."

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3498221, "... one candidate stands out above the rest: John Edwards."
Posted by Sapphire Blue on Wed Sep-05-07 10:12 AM

John Edwards Blogswarm
by: mooncat
Tue Sep 04, 2007 at 12:31:53 PM CDT

All the Democrats running for president this year are strong candidates with good ideas and most any of them can win in the general election. As I said a while back, I support John Edwards for President. Why? Sure, he's right on the issues I care about -- universal health care for everyone, stop digging that hole in Iraq and rewarding work more than wealth -- but I like Edwards most because he cuts through the crap.

Gonzo resigns, Edwards says "Better late than never."

Karl Rove bails out, Edwards says "Goodbye, good riddance."

Bush does yet another photo op in Iraq, Edwards says "When Congress comes back, they should stand firm: No timeline, no funding. No excuses."

Lobbyist money? John Edwards never took it, never will and challenges the others to do the same. “I challenge not just my fellow Democratic presidential candidates, but all federal officeholders and candidates from all political parties to join me in sending a message to all of the lobbyists in Washington: Your money is no good here, and we’re not going to take it anymore."

This is not just about snappy comebacks, it's about a Democrat running for President and being absolutely straight with voters. This is who he is, what he thinks, no spin, no language crafted to please focus groups. What you see is what you get.

And what you see is a man who did not come from a wealthy or powerful family, who attended a state college, not an Ivy League school, rose to the top of his profession on his own ability, has had a long term relationship with exactly one wife, sought the U. S. Senate as his first elected office and won, and is now seeking to lead this country. This is a man who has set goals throughout his life and has achieved them. He knows how to succeed. In other words, he can get things done. What a change that will be from the failed man who holds the office of President of the United States now.

John and Elizabeth are holding back nothing in their campaign for One America. This is their chance. Today a number of bloggers are announcing their support for Edwards. Here are some links:

David Mizner at MyDD
Perry Dorrell at Brains & Eggs
The Texas Clover Leaf
TXSharon at Blue Daze
Refinish69 at Doing My Part For The Left
Vince at Capitol Annex
Aldon Hynes at Orient Lodge
Jordan Klein


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John Edwards for President
by david mizner, Tue Sep 04, 2007 at 09:07:55 AM EST

My post last week got a big response, mostly positive. In emails and comments, hundreds of people said they agreed that bloggers should endorse a candidate in the presidential race. So today I'm endorsing Edwards and offering a forum for others to do the same.

First, a little about me. I post at MyDD and at Daily Kos, and I recently started my own blog, Insidious Beast. I'm a 38-year-old novelist. My father, a Holocaust survivor, died from kidney cancer in 1998, and my mother lives in Waterville, Maine, where I grew up. I'm married to Miri Navasky, a documentary filmmaker, and we have a nine-month old son, Milo. We live in Manhattan. I'm lucky, so damn lucky, a son of privilege, a white American man with money. I'm a Jewish agnostic, a pragmatic idealist, a believer in people, an often-sad-yet-hopeful non-dogmatic leftist Democrat who wants John Edwards to be the next president of the United States.

I'm under no illusion that my endorsement means anything in itself, but I have hope that my explicit support for Edwards combined with that of others in the netroots will mean something. My hope, then, is in collective action, in the power and beauty of a chorus, in democracy.

Why Edwards? Because he rejects neoliberalism . Because he preaches enlightened populism. Because he's running to the left. Because he would fight the amorality of the Market with the morality of progressivism. Because he opposes the Global War on Terror. Because he's getting better and bolder. Because he's capable of outrage. Because he's proud to be a progressive. Because he would win.

But one reason rises above all others: the stated and demonstrated rationale of his campaign is to fight inequality. The monstrous power held by the few at the expense of the many causes unnecessary hardship and agony. It hurts, it maims, it kills. It threatens what Thomas Frank calls the Middle Class Republic. It threatens our democracy and our freedom. And because power corrupts, because economic insecurity breeds fear and fear breeds militarism, because corporations have a vested interest in war and place profits above all else, the disproportionate power of the few threatens humankind.

Call it what you will--our class war, our bleeding wound, our dirty open secret--it's the problem of our time, and John Edwards has chosen to spend his political life addressing it.

And if everyone from Hillary Clinton to Mike Huckabee now talks about our class divisions, it's in part because Edwards began to do so at the national level in 2003, when it was a deeply unfashionable thing to do. It was on the advice of no consultant, at the suggestion of no poll that Edwards took it on himself in 2003 to speak out against inequality. His policy prescriptions have evolved in the last four years but the wound targeted by those prescriptions has stayed the same.

John Edwards is this century's most prominent progressive populist, the candidate most likely to give more power to more people. This alone makes him worthy of the presidency.

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Fellow bloggers and/or netroots activists, if you support John Edwards, please say so in comments and provide links to your blogs, blog pages, and/or endorsement statements.

Here, to get the ball rolling, is the endorsement statement by an excellent Texas blogger and Democratic Party activist, Vince Liebowitz.

And a collection of powerful endorsement statements by Boston-based bloggers.

UPDATE: here are some endorsement statements and/or blogs of endorsers: Jordan Klein / Asa Hopkins / RDean's blog / Catchawave's Journal


Continued @ http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/9/4/9755/69777


2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ENDORSEMENT: John Edwards
Written by Vince Leibowitz

There is a truly marvelous field of Democratic candidates seeking our Party’s nomination for President in 2008. We have longtime stars of our party like Hillary Clinton and rising stars like Barack Obama. But, to us here at Capitol Annex, one candidate stands out above the rest: John Edwards.

As Texas Democrats who still believe strongly in the dream of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, we at Capitol Annex believe that John Edwards is best suited–and has the best vision and plan–to roll-back the eight years of destruction that has been done to the policies of the New Deal and the Great Society by the Bush administration.

Lyndon Johnson’s dream was, as John Edwards’ is, for One America. We believe strongly in this. Edwards believes we can end poverty in America in a decade. It is a lofty goal, and America needs leaders with lofty goals willing to do everything possible to achieve them.

Too, John Edwards’ positions on a wide range of issues are, we believe, appropriately progressive. In particular, Edwards’ vision for protecting and restoring rural American resonate with us. Issues like rural recovery, rural broadband, and rural lending policies–and Edwards’ vision in that regard–should resonate with many Americans.

And, though Hillary Clinton has for a generation been America’s leading voice on universal health care, we believe John Edwards’ plan for health care for all, with emphasis on taking on big pharma and big insurance, is right for the time in which we live.

Edwards’ “Smart Trade” approach to trade policy (which has helped him earn the support of several labor unions) is also something we sorely need. After more than a decade of seeing an economic decline as a result of trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA, and more, now is the time for a progressive approach to trade that helps keep American jobs in America and doesn’t serve to deflate American wages. Edwards’ support of the Employee Free Choice Act is also a major plus for him.


Continued @ http://capitolannex.com/2007/09/04/2008-presidential-election-endorsement-john-edwards /





Transformational Change For America And The World - JOHN EDWARDS for PRESIDENT 2008

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A true revolution of values

"I'm proposing we set a national goal of eliminating poverty in the next 30 years." - JOHN EDWARDS 08

"If you call wanting to give everybody a chance 'class warfare,' then so be it. That's what I'm for." - JOHN EDWARDS 08

"Every time another radical Republican running for president speaks, the American people are reminded of how out of touch with economic reality they are." - JOHN EDWARDS 08

Building One America Starts in New Orleans - JOHN EDWARDS 08

Silence is Betrayal - JOHN EDWARDS 08

Moral Leadership - JOHN EDWARDS 08

Ending Poverty in America - edited by Senator John Edwards

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1. Thanks for posting that here

It's a keeper :hi: