I am drawn to Edwards in a way that is inexplicable. I sense in him a deep and abiding [View All]

respect for all people and most especially for those who are in need.

I sense in him a "take no prisoners" fight that few leaders have ever had the courage to display and acknowledge.

I sense in him a depth that comes with sorrow, loss, awareness and a a deepening experience of purpose that makes him and Elizabeth want to leave this world a better place than they found it.

Quite different in my book, from just wanting to be POTUS. He wants to do more than just sit in the WH, he wants to help set the agenda that will move this country in a direction that in the past, has only been given lip service. Compromise has gotten us John Roberts and Samual Alito. We cried out for the filabuster and the response was excuses draped in silence.

I am afraid for our country and our people. Our goodness has been diminished by those elected public officials (of both parties) who have put power and ego before the well being of the people and this planet.

i am afraid I will not live to see my most profound wish......a restoration of the working class and middle class families and the return of financial stability.

My father walked with Walter Ruether during the early organization of the Auto Workers Unions. During that time, he was on strike a lot. And many years my parents struggled to put food on the table and pay the bills. But my father would not abandon the cause and saw a bigger purpose and a value in belonging to a union, than in being a single, alone struggling auto worker. He saw the promise of how unionized shops could bring stability to working people. And for the most part, my father was right.

I have worked and voted only to watch with dismay elected officials squander their precious time glad handing, back slapping and making pork filled deals that all but drive nails into the coffins of the working class. NAFTA, CAFTA all brought to you by the back slapping fat cats....GOP and Dem alike.

Basta! I say! Enough is enough and I do not intend to let the likes of John Edwards slip though my voting fingers with out fighting as hard for him as i possibly can.

It seems to me that the working class has been pushed to the back of the line too many times.

This race is far from over.....and those of us who have had years and years of experience fighting for justice....know that it has just begun.

Bless you all dear DU'ers for your passions and loyalties.... I am proud to be among you.

If we don't stand up for each other now....then when?

Women fought for 72 years to get the right to vote. If those Victorian women who started the movement had not stood by their convictions, "that it was past time that women had the right to vote" then I would not be writing this to you today.

Why then, is it not time for the working class and the struggling to have their very own champion? A true advocate?
I can not imagine a force in this country, in 2008, that would be willing to fight for 72 months, let alone 72 years.

Then why not give John Edwards 48 months to make his case?
John Edwards is the only candidate who has said in a way that all of us can understand, that he is willing to fight, and has the knowledge and skills to do so.

His message is not complicated, either we as a people are willing to fight or we are not. It really is that simple.