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John Edwards

A call for moral boldness (and decentralized grids!)

Posted by David Roberts at 11:21 AM on 07 Nov 2007

Over at Rolling Stone's blog, Tim Dickinson says of this video:

It just may change your opinion about John Edwards -- in particular about how compelling a combination it is to be both a Southerner and an unabashed progressive.

He starts his bit on global warming about halfway in. Decentralizing the energy grid gets a big shout-out.

"voice for the voiceless"

And there are more kinds of voiceless members of America's community of living creatures than even John Edwards has in mind right now.

For those of us who think history is not an unimportant subject, certainly Edwards is as brilliant as anyone in recovering from our memories a genuine proud identity and purpose of the Democratic Party, and in adapting those historic aspirations to redress persistent American disappointments, as well as to confront new American challenges.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

You go John

That was awesome.

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