Edwards08

Make-believe

Steve Benen, who is guest blogging over at Political Animal, quotes John Edwards answering a question as to whether he would give balancing the deficit high priority:
I think that, if we’re honest, you cannot it, it’s just common sense in the math, have universal health care, and invest in energy, and make a serious effort […]


Edwards 2.0

Last election bloggers, many of whom had initially supported the tech-savvy Howard Dean campaign, felt that they had to drag the Kerry campaign into the 21st century. If the official Edwards web site is any indication, this election will be very different. The Edwards campaign has embraced virtually every possible new technology: Flickr, MySpace, YouTube […]


Lessons

An article from last month’s Nation magazine talks about what Edwards has been doing this year, since he founded his Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC:
Between visits to shelters and job-training centers and delivering his new stump speech, full of ringing challenges to view poverty as “the great moral cause of our time,” […]


Edwards 08

Since it has now been officially announced, I’d like to throw in my endorsement:

Over the next two years I’ll be writing an ongoing series of posts about why Edwards is the best man for the job, but the main reason is quite simple … He isn’t afraid to speak out about poverty and inequality. Even […]