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I've said that the message is the most important thing. The message that ordinary Americans are more important than the corporations, that the industrial giants who are stealing our resources out from under us need to become our servants once again rather than our masters is the MOST important thing for Americans to hear.
This has been John Edwards's major contribution to the race, and now I have to extend my thanks to all the rest of the candidates for realizing this and stepping up to deliver it.
I'll support ANY candidate who's willing to tell the people the truth about this stuff, that we need to take our government back from the greedy corporate dragons guarding their hoards at our expense. That means Hillary, Obama, OR Edwards.
I'm silently cheering Hillary's speech tonight because she said it. Now I realize that she's the candidate in whom many of the corporate interests have most heavily invested, but there's something in that message that's going even farther than we might have expected. Hillary and Obama are what would have been the outside candidates--a black man and a woman--but somehow that whole dynamic is changed. But they're speaking of the People, about defending the middle class, about looking out for the little guy.
They're sounding more and more like Democrats by the day.
And that's a good thing, no matter how you slice it.
Now we can question their sincerity. I'm sure there's plenty of that going on. But like I have said before, it's the message that means the most to me--the idea that the PEOPLE begin to grasp how this country is being torn apart by vast corporate interests. Hell, even the Repugs are trying to hit that note (sour as their efforts have been).
When the GE comes along, I'll be happy and proud to cast a vote for any one of our fine Democratic candidates.
In the meantime, however, I'll continue to support JE until he wins or decides to drop out. And then I'm going to be firmly on the "John Edwards for Attorney General" bandwagon.
It's a great time to be a Democrat!
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