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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Edwards' Speech I've been following the Democratic Convention mostly via NPR. Without video, even the Clinton speech, powerful as it was, sounded somewhat perfunctory and businesslike. I turned the television on tonight, though. As Edwards took the stage, something immediately struck me: the crowd is pumped up. They're nearly manic. There is absolutely no division in the room. They love Edwards and they love his wife. This crowd believes, fully, passionately, deeply, in getting Kerry/Edwards into office. Not one of them has any doubt that Kerry is a better choice, on every issue. They don't need to be convinced by a speech; they know they're making the right choice. That's what it looked like to me on CBS, anyway. But Edwards makes the speech anyway, and he completely kills. "We don't just want people to get by, we want people to get ahead." "We're going to say no to any American working full-time and living in poverty. Not in our America." Wow. He spends several minutes talking about making sure veterans get good care. He talks about the human element of low incomes instead of the figures. He understands that not everyone is born, as he was, really smart and to a loving family. He understands that the nation will be better with fewer poor people, even if the government (gasp!) has to take a role He's getting just as big a cheer going out as he had coming in. He crushed it. It's starting to look like we have a lot of rock stars in the Democratic party. |