From the Kerry-Edwards blog:
Elizabeth Edwards on Blogging
First, on blogging, a couple of notes. Read Kos and found out about the NY Times piece on blogging -- thorough piece. I have traveled this road so long moving with the masters (in order to read them) from the acidic edge of newsgroups to the more definitive personalities of blogs. Today, too, Ed Cone's blog sent me to Mr. Sun (a new one for me) who was commenting on the (Greensboro) News and Record blog. He wrote, and it is true about this blog as well: "The blogs sound like the people I choose as friends: smart, informed, funny, curious, and imperfect." The genius of it is completely captured there. Even coverage by the NYT won't change 'em.
Now, down to this campaigning business. Two stops in Michigan today left me really heartened about this election -- our voters are so incredibly motivated. I mean really -- when people on corners jump up and down and pump their fists for wives of candidates, I'd say they are motivated. I started to type "race" instead of election in the second sentence, but such language connoted a game, and this is anything but a game. This is a fight for decent, honest leadership dedicated to making the lives of all Americans better -- things that ought to be a given now have to be won in an election. But they are not, and so we fight on.
At the health care roundtable in Battle Creek, there were three panelists -- and three people without health insurance. It wasn't planned that way, but that is so symbolic: wait a couple of minutes and there will be another uninsured family in America. Great crowd of a couple hundred.
Headed then to Grand Rapids for one of the Organizing Conventions -- training and rallying for get-out-the-vote efforts. Now rallying the troops is not really my strength but these folks didn't need much rallying; they were already pumped. From babies to 89-year-old Mary, black and white and brown, the crowd looked like America. The Moment, without a doubt, was Beverly's plea that we find some way to bring her son home from Iraq. "He isn't sleeping either," she said when I commented that she probably had trouble sleeping. She couldn't stop the tears, and neither could many in the crowd. It is so frustrating that all we can do for now is hug her and work even harder tomorrow so that the Beverlys who follow after her will have a President who understands the consequences of his actions, understands that what he does changes Beverly's life every single day. I am certain that Beverly, in her anguish, did more rallying today than all of us could have accomplished together. She sits at home at watches the images of chaos and disintegration on television, watches the unspeakable horrors by emboldened and horrible enemies, and she hears her president, her son's commander-in-chief repeat and repeat in rallies and the Rose Garden that we are on the right track, that the situation in Iraq is improving. This is not credible leadership, and most of all, it is not the leadership that Beverly's son deserves. Work a few extra hours just for Beverly, would you? Don't just say you will; do it.
Hey, I think she has potential! I guess short of reinstating the link they took down way back when, this is the next best thing. Anyone want to say something to Elizabeth?