New Video of the Main Street Express
1. Main Street Express Tour of Iowa - America Rising
DES MOINES, IOWA -- Standing outside the "Main Street Express" bus inside the Polk County Convention Center, John Edwards kicked off an 8-day tour of Iowa telling supporters that it’s "crunch time" and urged them to caucus for him on January 3rd.
If you "stand up for me," Edwards told the union-heavy crowd, "I will stand up for you."
Edwards told the union-heavy crowd who interrupted the speech with"President Edwards" chants that "it is time for America to rise again."
At a press conference following the event, Edwards told reporters "This [race] feels like a dead heat to me."
"Among the three of us, it’s very close," he said referring to Obama and Clinton. "What happened last time is the last three weeks there was a dramatic rise by me and I think by Senator Kerry. And you gotta believe there’s gonna be some movement these last three weeks."
Edwards: We Will Right The Wrongs, Make Our Nation The Way We Want It To Be – That's America Rising
Today, as the campaign kicked-off its "Main Street Express" bus tour in Des Moines, Senator John Edwards delivered new remarks relating the challenges and triumphs of his own life to those the country faces right now, and made the case that in the face of powerful interests holding the country back, we will right the wrongs and make our nation the way we want it to be. During the eight-day tour, Edwards will discuss his plans to stand up to the special interests on Wall Street and help hard-working families on Main Street.
John Edwards continues his message that Main Street, not Wall Street, is where America lives. It has been knocked down by the rigged system, but that is changing. America is rising...
"I grew up in a family where my grandmother walked to work at the mill every day wearing her apron," Edwards said. "My grandfather, who was partially paralyzed, hauled rolls of cloth using one arm. My dad worked in those mills for 36 years, my mom worked too – all of them for one reason – to give us a chance to rise up and have a better life.
"That's the greatness of America – the promise that every generation will give its children the chance to rise higher, dream bigger, live greater," Edwards continued. "I took the chances my parents gave me and spent my life fighting to make sure that people just like the people I grew up with had a real chance in the world.
"And that's what drives me now. When I talk about the Two Americas, this is what I mean – the very wealthiest and most powerful have manipulated our government for their own ends. They use their wealth and their power to keep themselves wealthy and powerful at the expense of everyone else. And when they do that, they're holding America back.
"But that's about to change. You can feel it here in Iowa. Because America can't be held back. Because America belongs to us. When we face obstacles, you know what we do? We get up. We rise up. We right wrongs and we make our nation the way we want it to be. That's what's happening in this election. That's what's happening here in Iowa. That's America Rising."
America is rising. For more on the Main Street Express, go here.
2. Six Degrees of John Edwards
The Edwards campaign thinks of an innovative way to use the support of Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins:
- Sign up to organize a John Edwards Book Club. Invite at least six of your undecided friends or family members over to discuss John's 80-page policy book.
- Volunteer for six hours. Sign up to come into your local office and volunteer for six hours. Or, participate in a canvass in what will likely be six-degree weather.
- Bring six signed supporter cards to an event. Print out six supporter cards, convince six of your undecided friends to sign on with John Edwards, and bring the cards to any event between December 11th and 17th.
- Bring six undecided caucus goers to an event. Know six people who are still deciding and aren't quite ready to sign on? The best way to get them on board is to let them hear directly from John Edwards.
- Tell six friends about John's campaign. Use our simple tool to tell your friends about how John has been shaping this race by offering the boldest and most specific plans for the important issues facing our country.
- Write six letters to the editor. People really care what their peers think - your letter could be what convinces an undecided caucus goer to start supporting John Edwards.
3. Edwards on Gore's Nobel Peace Prize
Edwards Statement On Gore Receiving The Nobel Peace Prize
Today’s award by the Nobel Committee recognizes three decades of Vice President Gore’s prescient and compelling advocacy for the future of the Earth. His passionate voice and calls for change have echoed throughout America and the world and sparked a true movement to save our plant from global warming. Now, more than ever, we must be stand united as one nation and meet the moral test of generation that compels us to leave a better America and a better world to our children and all future generations.
4. Chronicle of Higher Education Writes About John Edwards' Plan
Wonderful Chronicle Article on Edwards re. Education
None of John Edwards's children graduated last May from Greene Central High School, in rural eastern North Carolina, but the former U.S. senator was as proud as any parent.
Sixty-one percent of the 171 cap-and-gowned seniors were heading for college in the fall, an astonishingly high number in a blue-collar community where most young people have viewed their post-high school options as factory or farm.
And a program started by Mr. Edwards will help pay their way to a higher education.
Dubbed College for Everyone, the privately financed plan covers a year's tuition, books, and fees at a North Carolina public college for Greene County students who have completed college-preparatory courses, stayed out of trouble, and agreed to work at least 10 hours a week while enrolled.
"The chance to go to college meant everything in my life, and I want every young person to have that chance," Mr. Edwards said at the graduation, where he announced that he would take the two-year-old pilot program national and make it a centerpiece of his bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
Much more here.
5. Edwards Gets Workers
Workers aren't on agenda of today's 'gentry liberals'
The ascent of gentry liberalism remains largely unchallenged, in part because of the abject failure of the Republicans to address middle-class aspirations in a serious way and in part because of the absence of a strong pro-middle-class voice among Democratic presidential contenders, with the exception of former Sen. John Edwards. As a result, Democrats are unlikely to stop, let alone reverse, the current economic trend that dispenses major benefits to gentry-favored sectors such as private equity firms, dot-com giants and entertainment media.
Over the last half-century, liberals have moved from strong support for basic middle-class concerns - epitomized by the New Deal and the GI Bill - to policies that reflect the concerns and prejudices of ever-more-elite interests. As a result, neither party speaks for broad middle-class concerns.
The nation deserves better than that.
6. On Edwards in Iowa
"And the allocation of the delegates itself is not
proportional to population. Bonus delegates are
awarded to Democratically performing areas. Certain
smaller counties pack the same punch as bigger
counties -- a caucus of 50 in one part of the state
can yield the same number of delegates as a caucus of
100 in Des Moines.As a totally unscientific rule of thumb, some analysts
tend to subtract three points from Barack Obama's
percentage in a good poll -- he does better in urban
and suburban areas than he does in rural precincts ...
and tend to add a few points to John Edwards's tally.
He has many second-tier counties locked up."
7. Diary Roundup
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Wonderful Chronicle Article on Edwards re. Education
John Edwards and America Rising
Two More Beautiful Women Stand Up For Edwards!
8. NEW South Carolina Ad - Heroes
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