Bad weather doesn’t slow Edwards

[Catchawave]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/default.aspx?full=1

Saturday, December 01, 2007 6:59 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC/NJ’s Tricia Miller

DES MOINES, IA -- A nasty ice storm didn’t slow down Edwards today. While Romney canceled his events in the state and Clinton participated in forums remotely, Edwards started the day with a forum on children and continued on to the Heartland Presidential Forum. Opening with a church-style call and response in HyVee Hall here, Edwards deftly hailed his theme of cleaning up corruption in Washington and working for men like his father.

Two panels of activists from across the country told Edwards their stories and asked questions about corporate and governmental corruption and racial profiling. Corruption in Washington is a theme of Edwards’ campaign, and he used the questions to rally the crowd to "show a little backbone, show a little courage" in fighting that corruption.

That forum followed Edwards’ morning appearance at the Every Child Matters forum, where moderators and the questions they read from audience members covered issues like education, after-school programs and poverty. Wearing hiking boots and a suit, Edwards molded these questions to his campaign themes of Washington corruption (referencing his “Brownie’s Law” that would require cabinet heads be qualified for their positions) and health care (referencing World AIDS Day).

"We should give people a chance to take care of themselves," he said, summing up his proposals. "That’s what this is about. That’s what everything we’ve been talking about today is about -- access to decent health care, access to job opportunities, making our schools work, access to college. This is not about giving away. This is about giving opportunity for people to be able to take care of themselves.”

[Andy823]

1. He really cares

He has proven his commitment to the people over and over again, and he continues to do so, no matter what the weather is like. The more people get to hear him, the more they like him. He knows the problems in D.C., and he wants to change them, and that's what makes him the number one candidate in my book!

Thanks for this post.

[asdjrocky]

2. Hardest working man on the campaign trail

Can you imagine having someone with energy and true curiosity in the white house?

[saltpoint]

3. The man who made it up Mt. Kilimanjaro has also navigated an ice storm

today.

Good for John Edwards.

[maddiejoan]

4. Did Edwards have to fly into Iowa?

I was under the impression he was already there.

[saltpoint]

6. Either way, the ice fell on everything across the Plains states today.

Edwards kept on going, kept campaigning, stayed in the action.

[maddiejoan]

10. Yes it did.

Including the airport that Hillary couldn't fly into.

[saltpoint]

11. I'm not slamming Senator Clinton, only saying that Edwards can

climb mountains when he chooses (literally) or brave an ice storm.

From the reports of the storm I got, a lot of people hunkered down in the basement with hot chocolate.

[maddiejoan]

12. My bad.

Someone on another forum had just used this story to me as an example of why Clinton isn't really working hard.

my apologies for thinking that's where you were going with this.

[saltpoint]

13. Well, I'm getting foggy-brained at this hour, maddiejoan. We've got

the Stones on the music player doing "Honky Tonk Women."

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

[asdjrocky]

7. That matters....because?

Guess we'll have to re-activate the Edwards GPS.

[Life Long Dem]

5. The last couple of days didn't look Presidential to Hillary.

She cancelled an appearance yesterday, and today she was snowbound and couldn't get transportation to the important Heartland Presidential Forum. Go figure since she was there just yesterday.

[maddiejoan]

9. She cancelled an appearance yesterday --

--so she could be available to the police during a hostage situation.

She couldn't get into Iowa today because she was in NH --after dealing with the hostage situation.

[waiting for hope]

8. His Green Jobs initiative is the best

out there:

Edwards will create more than 1 million jobs, many in struggling manufacturing communities, by capping carbon dioxide emissions to halt global warming and prompting a shift to renewable energy and energy efficient economy.

He will train 150,000 workers a year in green collar jobs. http://johnedwards.com/news/press-releases/20071201-cities-rising/

What a breath of fresh air - finding solutions and positive outcomes for some of the most serious problems facing this country. Go, Johnny, GO!

Thanks C! K&R and :hi:!

[Triana]

14. Personally I think this is a thus-far untapped solution and happy to see JRE...

...mentioning it. There can be a LOT of "green" jobs as we switch from fossil and carbon-based fuels to clean, renewable, sustainable energy - and we train American workers to do that research, conversion and work in creating and sustaining this new energy solution.

Not only can we support the move to cleaner energy for the planet, but we can and SHOULD create good jobs IN THE US for doing it.

win-win

It doesn't get any better than that and I'm not surprised that Edwards is on the forefront of this!


VERY happy to see it. That's my man!

[waiting for hope]

19. I loved it when I first heard it -

Can you out-source Green Jobs? That's the beauty of it, cleaning up and preserving our environment and creating sustainable, worthy jobs for Americans to boot! I am truly inspired by JRE!

[jamess]

15. thanks for the report

it was a great event for Edwards!
those Grassroots activists sure seemed to like him a lot
from all the cheering

the clips can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=movementvision&p=r

cheers

[saltpoint]

16. Thank you for posting that link, James, and welcome to DU.

I sure do like the candidate you're backing.

[Catchawave]

17. jamess has a kick ass EENR up over a Daily Kos right now

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/1/155453/519

I'm a big fan of his diaries :D

[waiting for hope]

18. Me too!

:D

[saltpoint]

20. Well, hell, I'm way behind. Had no idea Thanks for the heads-up.

I'm off to visit the site.
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Addendum: As usual, Catchawave, you are exactly right. Great post on kos by james. Bravo!