John Edwards' Message. . .

I'm sorry John Edwards dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for President.

Go ahead.

Take your best shot.

Blast him.

Chronicle all of the criticisms you want.

Parade out all of the stories, point out the inconsistencies as you see them, make fun of his haircuts and fire away at the size of his home.

Oh, and don't leave out the lawyer jokes!

I'll wait while you finish up with all of that. . . .

Done?

Here's my regret as I watched him standing there in New Orleans (have any of the other candidates from either major party even been there since the campaign got going?):

Edwards always pushed the issues of poverty to the forefront.

Always.

As in every single speech.

In every debate.

And it wasn't a matter of party or partisan commitments. Edwards forced everyone to at least look at the issues surrounding poverty in America.

I reget that this important emphasis may be lost to this campaign.

I hope and pray that it will not be, but I fear we lost a lot when he withdrew on Wednesday.

What do you think?

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ABC News: Children, Families and Health Care--Part 3 and last night's debate

Facing the reality of 9,000,000 uninsured children in the United States turns out to be sobering work.

Take a look at this report by ABC News:

"Red Tape and Bureaucracy in Health Care" (June 10) http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3264531.

We must do better.

[As in previous segments of this series, please tolerate the commercial message at the beginning of the report.]

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Don't know about you, but I found last night's Presidential debate on CNN among the Democratic candidates using the YouTube question format to be interesting and refreshing compared to previous debates. Ordinary folks asking the questions that concerned them.

Opinion: there would have been many more questions on the Iraq War if the U. S. "recruited" its soldiers from a national draft. Funny how current, pressing self-interest shapes our primary concerns, huh? I find it to be the same with the issues associated with poverty, like the video above.

What do you think?


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