Mrs. Plaidder Meets John Edwards, Asks Him To Support Gay Marriage

My partner has been away in New York at a conference all week. She's coming home today. So she calls this morning, once I finally get online, and I blather away at her for a while, and she says, "Well, I just called to tell you about my morning." I said, "What happened?"

She says, "I made a personal appeal to John Edwards to support gay marriage."

I said, "WOW! Tell me all!!"

She says she went to hear him speak--she says he was 'electrifying'--and she was sitting right in the front so she was one of the people he made 'periodic eye contact' with. Afterwards there was no Q&A but he was shaking hands, and she realized that this was going so fast that if she wanted to really talk to him she'd have to wait out in the hall. So she went out in the hall with the other Edwards ambushers, and he came out eventually and started working that crowd too, and then she made her move.

She said, "When he shook my hand I held onto it, because I knew that this guy was like Clinton and that if I held on his hand and looked him in the eye he wouldn't walk away." So she did, and she introduced herself and said that she hoped he would seriously consider supporting gay marriage because she and her partner had been together for 15 years and the past two months had been extremely upsetting to both of us. He said he was sorry to hear that, and gave her a hug. Which, as she says, was smart because he got to show compassion without taking a position. So after the hug, he shook her hand again, and she held onto it and looked him in the eye and said, "I know you'll think about this," and then I guess she released him from her thrall.

Wow!!

I know he probably hugs a lot of people and will probably forget this happened by lunchtime today, but I'm still so proud of her. Who knows, he may end up being Kerry's VP after all; even if he doesn't he'll still be out there campaigning for him. I said that I was as proud of her as I could possibly be and I would tell the story and spread her fame far and wide.

O lucky me to be the bride of such a woman!

Yee ha,

The Plaid Adder

That is great. It gave Edwards something to think about, that's for sure. And if Edwards isn't with us yet on gay marriage, it says that we can at least talk to him. That if he is Vice President, he'll take the gay community's views seriously.

Thank Mrs. Plaidadder for me. :-)

Terry

just a little too much.

Edwards is going to be a great VP.

Good for her, I think that the Democrats running this year have spent more time with real people than any other bunch in a while. Jon Stewart joked with Clark that he has to stay away from the kids, they are killing him.