Music To My Ears
Jan 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 pm by Susie
John Edwards today:
“It is time for some truth telling, and the truth is that corporate greed is destroying this country. I believe that we have a responsibility to stand up for the sacrifice and the hard work of those generations before us.”
[...] Edwards’ final message is simple: “to make absolutely certain that our kids have a better life than we had. That’s what this is all about, at the end of the day, to live up to our responsibility, to live up to what our folks did for us,” Edwards said in a two-minute speech, his voice breaking, at a house party in Centerville 11 hours after his factory floor appearance.
[...] The populist message is one that revolves around, and is squarely directed at, blue-collar Iowans. And while it would seem to be a risk to focus so exclusively on one group, the campaign says the message of economic inequity — a middle-class version of the poverty tour with which Edwards launched his campaign in December 2006 — resonates with all kinds of Americans. “One of the things that I’ve seen just in the last 12 to 14 hours is the energy and excitement as I move across Iowa,” Edwards told reporters Wednesday in Mount Pleasant. “And the one thing that’s clear to me [is] that the people of Iowa and the people of America are unstoppable when they commit themselves to stopping these entrenched special interests.”
Good heavens, Susan, this sounds like, “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!”
This Edwards fellow is obviously a dangerous looney…