John Edwards: A Heart for America
By John Edwards | Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Somewhere in America, an eight-year-old girl goes to sleep hungry, a little girl who ought to be drawing pictures and learning multiplication cries herself to sleep, praying that her father, who has been out of work for two years, will get a job again. It doesn't’t have to be that way.
Somewhere in America, a hotel housekeeper walks a picket line with her union brothers and sisters fighting for decent health care benefits during the day and works the late-shift at a diner at night so that she and her family can live a decent life and so her boy can go to college and have choices she never had.
And somewhere, a young man folds a college acceptance letter and puts it in his drawer because even with his part-time job and his mother’s second job, he knows he cannot afford to go. It doesn't’t have to be that way.
It doesn't have to be this way
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Everyone matters
We are Americans, and we’re better than that.
The time for half-measures, empty promises and sweet rhetoric is gone. Now is the time for courage, decisiveness and moral leadership.
It’s time to stand up for the promise of America again — and for the principle that every American matters, no matter where you come from, or what color your skin is, or how much money you have in your pocket.
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http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=5967 My thoughts - if this country is stronger as a whole, then all the fear mongering, hysteria, and war profiteering will end. A house united is stronger than one divided. He is the only candidate that is proposing measures to make the foundations of this country stronger as a whole. He's my choice and he speaks for me.