They Say John Edwards is "Too Angry"

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Too angry for what?

Too angry about 200,000 homeless vets sleeping, living and dying under bridges in alleys and on roadways and that our government and society treats them like yesterday's trash after they served this country so honorably?

Too angry that 47 million people in this country have NO healthcare because of the profiteering and brokering of healthcare by big insurance companies?

Too angry that while our polar ice caps melt, our environment burns to a cinder we STILL don't have an energy policy that was NOT written by oil and gas and coal companies and Dick Cheney's friends?

Too angry that our public schools are a crumbling shell and still "No Child Left Behind" wants to PUNISH them because they can't serve to educate our children properly?

Too angry that families have to sweat it from paycheck to paycheck and choose between heat and food while we spend billions on a war based on lies in Iraq and ExxonMobil makes record profits?

Too angry that FAR too many kids can't get a college education and make a decent lives for themselves because their families can't AFFORD it?

Too angry that the poor and elderly have to spend upwards of $400/month ++ for heating oil while George's friends rake in the dough - AND while George cuts heating oil assistance programs?

Too angry for what?

Aren't people who say John Edwards is "too angry" just afraid that when he lifts the skirt on these issues and offers common sense solutions to them that something might CHANGE?

I think so.

TOO ANGRY MY ASS!

John Edwards knows where the bull shit in the buckwheat. And he INTENDS to do something about it. ANY TIME anyone speaks up about injustices in this country - any time anyone points out poverty and abuse, greed and corruption - they get told they are TOO ANGRY.

Too angry FOR WHAT? Too angry NOT to do something to change things?

I think so.

While the other candidates collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from those drug and insurance and oil and gas companies and their lobbyists, and while they publicly and embarrassingly bicker and snub each other, The GROWN UP candidate is out there talking about how to help people in this country whose backs and lives have been broken by corporate greed.

The GROWN UP candidate is out there EVERY DAY speaking for us and trying to be a voice for the voiceless in our government, which means MOST of us here on DU and in this country.

He wants to be our voice. We NEED him to be our voice.

WE NEED TO BE HIS VOICE, too.

Because a vote for John Edwards - is a vote for YOURSELF. Support for John Edwards is support for YOURSELF. That's how it works.

If we abandon John Edwards, we're abandoning OURSELVES.

Think about it.