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If I was to say something inappropriate, it would be that:
No one cared about about “Whitey.”
Everyone seems to look at that aspect. To me, if Obama symbolizes race, and Clinton, gender, then Edwards was running on class issues. And class is more all encompassing than race or gender.
The big corporations and in turn the big media that they own decided that they wanted the race to be between the chick and the black guy. They were also deathly afraid that Edwards would win and begin to make things work for the average American. Big business wants the status quo where they get richer and we get poorer and to maintain that they are ensuring the Democrats run some flavor of Republican light.
“No, thank you” is a perfect response, Frederick.
I’m a die-hard Kucinich girl with a massive fondness for Edwards, but the corporate whore media couldn’t toss those 2 under the bus quick enough the minute they started talking about real issues facing Americans and solutions for those issues.
From the get-go the focus was never on the issues but only on “Oooh… lookie lookie everybody: It’s a black guy and a woman!”
Yes, those 2 candidates are of great historical importance and I would L-O-V-E to see a minority or a woman elected as president. But couldn’t the case have been made that by voting for a guy who came from a poor family, a guy who didn’t have a silver spoon in his mouth, a guy who didn’t have daddy’s laurels to rest upon to make him a success, a guy who became rich thru a non-Ivy League education and plenty of hard work… (ya know… the very people and ideals the Dems supposedly embody?) and a guy who was not in corporate America’s back pocket and went on to be the only real populist candidate would be a historic choice for president, too???
Have to get the absentee ballot in the mail tomorrow. I’ll be flipping a coin, I suppose. My husband didn’t even get one. Easiest way to suppress the military vote is to not send the absentee ballots.
Kucinich wasn’t even on the ballot in Alabama.
I’m with you, F. Thanks to John Edwards for running. He is being credited with moving Clinton and Obama to a more progressive stance, and that’s great.
And Future Thanks for returning to the race in three months when Progressives realize that we didn’t know we got til it’s gone…