Fort Worth Star-Telegram: 'There's a hunger to be inspired again'

Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Dec 7, 2006

The only thing missing was the announcement that he's running.

The grand themes were there.

America's diminishing clout as the only superpower. The imperatives of collectively engaging in addressing crises around the world. The inherent decency of the American people.

"When America doesn't lead, the world is a dangerous and chaotic place," John Edwards told a room full of lawyers and journalists Friday in Dallas.

Confidently, persuasively, he built that message to a crescendo: "There is such a hunger across American today to be part of something big and important," he said.

"There's a hunger to be inspired again."

The only part he left out was the "And I'm just the guy to do that inspiring." But surely that's coming.

Why else has Edwards spent the past two years globetrotting, addressing international conferences, visiting Uganda, India and China, talking about combating disease and terrorism and nuclear threats?

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make it virtually impossible for Edwards.

All signs point to an Obama run, even though common sense says he can't win. P.S. Gore isn't running.