I worked in a primary in Kentucky for an awesome candidate named Eric Streit. Our district is one that really needs a leader in Washington to stand up and start doing good things for us. Eric cared deeply about our homes, and the jobs, and the fact that our part of the state was extremely neglected and has been for some time. He had many ideas and much vision to put to work helping our neighbors. He wanted most to help the many low-payed service workers and the seniors and people on disability. On election day the most painful part of losing was seeing all the people we so desperately wanted to help vote against us. It was a very sobering experience.
Now, as a staunch Edwards supporter I am feeling more and more the same way. For once we have a truly Progressive candidate who has championed Progressive causes. This campaign seriously wants to heal the divisions in America and rebuild our moral standing in the world. It wants to help the 37 million Americans who wake up in poverty. It wants to make affordable healthcare available to all of those who work. It wants to restore American industry and rebuild dilapidated rural communities. It wants to fight Global Warming, and research in and build a whole new industry to manufacture the fuels of the future. It wants to make college available to all American kids who don't mind working for it. Edwards seeks to rebuild the fractured relationship between the military and its civilian leadership. He wants to truly honor our troops by raising their pay and bringing them home, then not calling them out to fight unless it is truly required.
And where is the Progressive vision from our so-called "frontrunners"? Hillary believes that George Bush's "War on Terror" is real and has actually made us safer!!! She envisions us in Iraq for another ten years!! And where are her proposals to rebuild our military, help the American worker by supporting unions, fight global warming and create new fuels, or truly combat terrorism in the New Century? There are none. The one Economic proposal I saw was just an Edwards plans smoothed over to suit the DLC.
Obama's campaign is equally void on ideas. He thinks we can just wait until the next President to get out of Iraq. He said as much during the first question of the last debate. His campaign actually believes Scooter Libby should be pardoned. His healthcare plan is once again taken from Edwards and trimmed to suit the DLC. Where are his plans to truly combat terrorism? Where are his plans to rebuild our military for the challenges of the New Century? What leadership role has he assumed? From what I see I think he is tied up with Hillary and the DLC crowd, and will offer nothing truly Progressive.
Has our attention span as a party become that short? Don't we remember that we had a Progressive candidate in 04 that got derailed the same way? It is time for we as a party to for once look at the candidate that fights for the things most dear to us. Not only that, we need to look at the candidate who doesn't want to hide the way they feel but has true Progressive policies that could move this country foward if actually enacted. I fully intend to fight for the party of JFK and RFK and for the morals that they represented. That is why I am fighting for John Edwards and the fact that so many power brokers have risen against him, that makes me want to fight even harder!!! So to everyone out there who truly wants to fight for a Progressive vision in our time please join us, we need you!!!
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