Bitterness, you say? How about a Unity Ticket and Cabinet to solve America's biggest problems.

John Edwards knew the way to One America. Would either of the remaining candidates please consult him?

by Karita Hummer

Cross-posted from: EENR Blog

http://www.eenrblog.com/showDiary.do?dia ryId=922

Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 16:59:17 PM EDT
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The more I think of the conversation about Obama "bitterness" statements, about economically deprived Americans from small towns that have been forgotten, the more "bitter" I feel about my fellow Democrats, and the remaining Candidates included.

And, yes, Barack Obama, I did grow up in Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania, on the edge of Appalachia. I worked for Bobby Kennedy in 1968, indeed, helped draft him, and I worked for John Edwards, exactly for the same reason. Because they cared and realized about the economic problems of Western Pennsylvania, the Rust Belt, and Rural and Urban American small towns all over America, West, East, North, and South (as in New Orleans), and they didn't need to go on a campaign trail to discover it. No, they went on the campaign trail to solve it and to reach out to the people, with utter respect and empathy.

Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 10:20:51 PM PDT

Cross-posted from: EENR Blog

http://www.eenrblog.com/showDiary.do?dia ryId=751

(+) by: Karita Hummer Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 13:49:58 PM EDT [edit diary]
Down ticket all the way down, building the Progressive Movement (and the Democratic Party) from the ground up!!

Today, is a quite lovely day in San Jose, CA, and I am preparing a fundraiser for one of the best down ticket candidates one could find, for Santa Clara County Supervisor, Richard Hobbs..

Now, Santa Clara County is known world-wide for the Silicon Chip and all that has gone with it. (Sadly, forgotten are the old orchards that made it the Garden of Heart's Delight some years ago.) What is not known maybe as widely is that we have lots of poverty here, too, many, many in the working poor (right alongside and in the shadow of the Silicon Valley giants) as well as discrimination, high rates of incarceration, pollution, and too much civic disengagement as well, because of how busy people are here running around in this valley industry, where the working poor hold two jobs (to the detriment of their children) and the working affluent work 60 - 70 hours + (to the detriment of their children.)

Why we still voted for John Edwards in the California Primary by Absentee Ballot

Cross-posted from the JohnEdwards08 Blog

http://blog.johnedwards.com/story/2008/2 /3/52113/63937

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2/03/2008 at 5:21 AM EST

So proud that we voted for John Edwards on our Absentee Paper Ballot!!! The Candidate with the best vision and mission for One America!!!!

I offer this as a template for your use if you choose to do so.

Karita Hummer

"I look forward to Thanksgiving Day in 2009, when millions of American families will celebrate that this was the year their president and our leaders in Washington did what was right and passed true universal health care."  John Edwards, "
Edwards: Clinton Is Wrong, Politicians Should Not Have Health Care When The American People Do Not", November 21, 2007

http://www.johnedwards.com/news/press-re leases/20071121-clinton-on-health-care/

Karita Hummer
San Jose, CA

Road to One America Unfettered

I was so happy when Wolf Blitzer asked John Edwards last Sunday about a Newsweek article that had implied the he was being led by advisors, that JRE pointedly said that he, himself, is the policy maker for his campaign.  JRE runs it as he sees it and, in my opinion, he is running it just fine. In fact, he is without a doubt the finest candidate that has run in forty years.  Not since Bobby Kennedy have we had a candidate of his caliber, for integrity, vision, moral fiber, passion, intelligence, creativity and thoroughness. In fact, it has seemed to me that in these last four years, he has thrown off the shackles of being ruled by advisors, and he is himself, 100%, the real deal. His campaign is dynamic and moving.

Cross-posted from John Edwards for 2008 Blog

JFA Report on High Rates of Incarceration

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11/19/2007 at 7:45 PM EST

Justice for All released a report calling for a major overhaul of our Criminal Justice System.

The report stated,

"The massive incarceration of young males from mostly poor- and working-class neighborhoods, and the taking of women from their families and jobs, has crippled their potential for forming healthy families and achieving economic gains." Randall Mikkelsen, Prison System a Costly and Harmful Failure: Report, Monday, November 19, 2007 by Reuters

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007 11/19/5330

Our prisons have become a sick, burgeoning industry, with the ranks of prisoners swelling because of particularly long prison sentences.

Crossposted from John Edwards for 2008 Blog

http://blog.johnedwards.com/story/2007/1 1/17/17017/970

"We the People" must demand fair elections and that includes fair debates

With the lack of decorum in the last presidential debate, the uneven distribution of time for candidates, the apparent stacking of attendees with outsiders (from the city in which it was held) and the orchestration for these attendees, the lack of opportunity for consistent rebuttal, I think that it is time to reformat the presidential debates from how they are currently run.    

Presidential Debate Formats change should be part of election reform. Democracy is at risk under the current format.
                           

ELECTION REFORM and John Edwards

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11/17/2007 at 1:36 AM EST

The consequences of voter disenfranchisement, strange voting anomalies, vote suppression, and seeming fraud of the election of 2004 have had enormous consequences, with a full-scale diminishment of our democratic form of governance.

Senator Edwards statement for "Why Tuesday" demonstrates fully his grasp of the need for major reform of our electoral system.  His is a bold call for ensuring the fullest realization of our aspiration for a full-bodied democracy for America. He advocates for paper ballots, tougher laws to fight voter suppression and intimidation, disenfranchisement of former prisoners, elections on non-work days, and same day registration. Further, he advocates for public financing of national elections, thereby, reducing the influence of lobbyists on elections and giving more power to people through Citizenship Congresses.

This is a must-see!!!
http://blog.johnedwards.com/story/2007/1 1/16/114947/85