It is representative of the populist chord that Edwards is striking with a great many voters in this country, and it is why our corporate media will continue to denigrate him as a phony while trotting out the usual “non-stories” about Edwards that you and I know all too well.
With this in mind, please take a minute or two to read this from Elizabeth Edwards…
Dear friend,Also, I noticed that some kind of a parody of the tour by John Edwards appeared on the Huffington Post site. I am not able to view it at the moment, nor do I have any desire to at any point (but if anyone wants to, go ahead by clicking here - feel free to waste your time in this manner if you so choose).
For the last 30 years, I have been blessed with the opportunity to share my life with John Edwards, the most optimistic, hard working, and fair-minded man I have ever met.
Whenever I talk to voters about this campaign, I try my best to share straight from the heart why I know—really know—that John Edwards is the right person to lead this country.
I wish I could talk to every voter individually, but since I cannot, I asked to record a special message that we are putting on the air today in New Hampshire. It is hard to condense 30 years of admiration into 30 seconds, but I think it came out well.
I hope you will help me make sure as many people as possible see this message in the early voting state of New Hampshire. I am but one voice in this cause—a voice that grows stronger only because of your help. Please watch the video and contribute what you can to make a difference in our campaign and keep this ad on the air, here.
Please take a moment right now to watch my message for yourself. And then pass this note on to anyone you know who would like to learn a little more about who John Edwards actually is—and what kind of leadership he can offer our country.
Click here.
Thank you,
Elizabeth Edwards
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
P.S. This week, John is leading the Road to One America tour, bringing national attention to poverty in America, and visiting communities that are leading the fight to end it. On Monday, he gave a truly inspiring speech on the struggle for fairness in this country—it was one of the best I have ever seen. You can watch it yourself here.
I would have cut the Huffington Post some slack on this if they had devoted any time whatsoever to highlighting this tour. But instead, they have chosen to feed into this country’s most craven and selfish impulses by linking to something like this (completely and sickeningly reflected in the comments, I may add – God, it’s frightening how thoroughly this country has been conditioned to spit out propaganda like “LBJ’s War on Poverty was a failure because all of the money went to Vietnam”).
If your intention is to make fun of John Edwards personally, all you had to do was put up that stupid “I Feel Pretty” YouTube video or something or republish that horrible column by Kathleen Parker (automatically putting you on the same level as a freeper outlet). However, it is completely beneath you and any progressive impulse you purport to have by ridiculing Edwards for drawing this country’s attention to an issue that has been almost completely ignored by our corporate media (unless, of course, they decide to air some “feel good” fluff piece that happens to touch on it).
This is totally beneath you, Arianna (and in a related vein, to quote Atrios, What Digby Said).
(Fortunately, since HuffPo is apparently incapable of producing a serious analysis of what Edwards is all about on this, I happened to find a column from McClatchy Newspapers on it here, and before anyone gets too freaked out by the mention of "cost to taxpayers," consider that the full reinstatement of the estate tax would take care of a good deal of that.)
(And by the way, in keeping with my pledge from the Carmona post, Impeach Bush, Impeach Bush, and Impeach Bush).
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