Levees Not War endorses John Edwards for President

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http://www.leveesnotwar.org/LNW_Home.aspx

Democrats need a tough candidate who won’t
hesitate to kick the Republicans in the balls


It is not often we wish we lived in New Hampshire (nice place to visit), but we sorely wish we could be there on Tuesday to ‘vote early and often’ for John Edwards. Although we do not at all dislike the prospect of a President Obama, and though the nation would be in good hands if any one of the four Democratic candidates in Saturday’s New Hampshire debate were to win the White House, we have long preferred the 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate and former senator from North Carolina. (Edwards/Obama? In what order? The ‘change’ candidates could alternate being president/vice president.)

It is not only that John Edwards had the good sense and correct priorities to launch his campaign for the presidency from New Orleans (take note, presidential debate site committee). And it’s not just Edwards’ plan to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq within 10 months—something his competitors haven’t offered. We don’t favor Edwards only because he alone has spoken consistently as a populist public defender against the ‘iron grip’ of corporate special interests on Washington. Nor is he our favorite merely because he has the best health care plan (Paul Krugman’s praise sounds right to us).

We vote for John Edwards for all of these reasons, but especially because Democrats need a tough, combative lead candidate to whip the Republicans, who are vicious fighters in a presidential campaign—especially when they’re desperate. Barack Obama is marvelous and would also be a good president, but we worry he doesn’t have the aggressiveness to kick the Republican operatives in the balls, the way they always do to Democrats.

In Nov. 2004 it was Edwards the courtroom attorney who wanted to challenge the Ohio vote counts before conceding, but John Kerry decided otherwise.

John Edwards has the optimism, the intelligence, and the gut-fire and bulldog tenacity to get the job done. He has the skills of persuasion and ability to win people’s trust and bring together the best minds and talents to begin to tackle the serious predicaments facing our nation. He’s also a realist. He knows the status quo won’t give an inch without a struggle. About dealing with corporate interests such as the drug and oil and insurance companies, he says, “Some people argue that we’re going to sit at a table with these people and they’re going to voluntarily give their power away. I think it is a complete fantasy; it will never happen.”

We often say ‘We Want Roosevelt Again.’ We know we’re not going to get Franklin Delano, but in John Edwards we see just about the closest thing to FDR we’ve seen in many years. We’ve voted for Edwards before and we’ll do it again. We hope our readers will consider doing the same.

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1. Fantastic! From last January at the D.C. protest:

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2. Uh Oh, hope I didn't get JE's campaign in trouble

..it is a "special interest" group :silly:

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3. Yeah -- the people are a "special interest group" any more!

Go, John!