Crossposted from EDC
I must warn you that this is a very personal blog for me. There is nothing I take more seriously than my position among our readers. And there is nothing I take more seriously than my loyalty to a candidate, a cause, and a movement.
It was with a heavy heart that I watched John Edwards stand in New Orleans last week and tell us all that he was moving in a different direction. I have supported him since far before he even declared his intentions to run again in 2008. And I followed with joy and pride as he became the first to produce a health care plan, an energy package, a poverty initiative, and embraced the beauty of the new media movement and young voters.
I worked hard to raise money, I volunteered in caucus and primary states, I stood with friends beside him, at rallies before him, and walked behind him as we marched toward progress. I watched with great honor as the all too often sound-byte fight was moved to a war of issues. I wept with pride as we forced the US to wake up to poverty and to remember the moral failures in New Orleans. For never, in my short life, have I felt like I was part of a movement toward the beautiful future that was not quite out of our grasp.
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