Many of you have probably already heard about the Supreme Court ruling on home care professionals today. It basically said they were not eligible for minimum wage or overtime rights.
Now much has been said on here and in other places by Edwards supporters like me that John Edwards supports the working poor and the rights of Americans who work to do so at a fair wage. Well, the proof is in the pudding. Here is a release from Edwards today:
http://www.johnedwards.com/news/headline s/20070611-home-care-workers/
Can't my fellow Democrats across this nation see that the American worker has not had a friend in many moons? Even under Bill Clinton we had NAFTA shoved down our throats. We never achieved the Progressive change many of us dreamed of because of all the scandal, which completely negated his second term.
I like Bill Clinton. I was born in 1970 and he is the best President we have had in my lifetime. That being said, I really don't want to go back down that road with Hillary Clinton. I don't want scandal, and whos doing Bill, and this and that and the other, and all of it piling up all the time. I admit it will all be 98% BS but it will just have to be dealt with.
And what really bothers me, speaking as a Democrat and no candidates supporter is that she is already falling into the same trap her husband did. She is staying in the middle or lean-Conservative on the issues trying to placate them. It is a practice in futility. They will trash her out every possible turn despite her bi-partisanship efforts. She will compromise on everything, and real Progressive change will be thrown away for more investigations. The MSM will lovingly report every BS detail.
Obama seemed to be a viable option but I just believe he is not ready. He doesn't want to present big ideas for big problems. He seems timid on policy. He may be a great President one day, but he just isn't ready to take the fight to the Republicans yet. I just can't help feeling he and Hillary have already made him VP anyway.
I think the only option we have for true Progressive change that revives American industry, the American middle-class, American civil liberties, the American military, the millions without healthcare, and struggling rural communities is John Edwards.
I think in the last election John Edwards wasn't allowed to really talk about the things he cared about so they could run a "centerist" campaign. The centerist advisers he had did convince him to make a mistake or two. I followed what he was doing just after the election and I honestly believe that he decided that he was going to rid himself of the centerist influence and start talking about what he believed whether it was best for his image or not.
Edwards is a person who has made mistakes as are we all. But unlike other leaders in both parties that always try to make their mistakes right so they don't have to admit they were wrong, John Edwards has the maturity to see the new realities every day and try to correct them. He is the one candidate who realizes it is time to quit letting the DINOs in our party tell us the Democratic Party can't win on principle.
So I just want to respectfully ask the undecideds to go to Edwards site and look at the volume of Progressive proposals outlined throughout. Solid ideas of a Progressive agenda to hit the ground running with in early 2009. Lets not settle for baby steps, lets nominate a candidate who will challenge and inspire us to achieve great things, like one who insprired us to reach the moon.....
John Edwards- A New Leader for a New Century!!!
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