Olbermann, Elizabeth Edwards & "every bit of the will to protect us"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/

She admitted August wasn’t a very good month for her husband and Senator Kerry, apologized for periodically sounding too much like a soundbite, and said something that seemed extraordinarily like the stuff actual non-sound-bite-sounding people say— that the President has “painted a very compelling picture of himself as the sole place Americans can go if they want to be safe from terrorism. I don’t think it’s an accurate picture, but they’ve painted a compelling picture.”

That’s when she prophesied the show opening. “I don’t think there’s a single American, regardless of our party, who wouldn’t give everything possible to keep us safe,” Mrs. Edwards told me. “It ought not be a part of the dialogue. Someone is going to be president next January. And I don’t want any American, Democrat or Republican, feeling that person doesn’t have every bit of the will to protect us that they need.”

At almost the same moment Mrs. Edwards told me that from Kerry campaign headquarters, Vice President Dick Cheney was sitting before a ‘town hall meeting’ in Des Moines, erasing whatever remained from the convention of the line between honest politicking, and terrorizing voters. “It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on November 2nd, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll be hit again and we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating.”

That’s quite an answer to Mrs. Edwards’ politics of inclusiveness on the subject of Homeland Security, especially given that some international analysts conclude that Osama Bin Laden attacked this country largely in the hope that we would respond by doing something militaristic in the Middle East that would make every Muslim in the world perceive us as a slow-moving bully, and thus provide a focus and an inspiration for fanaticism that would overthrow all of the region’s secular governments.

[City Lights]

1. God I love that picture!

It always brings a :-) to my face.

[formernaderite]

3. So do I...it's so upbeat and positive....

why can't they use it in a campaign commercial? Heck, I don't live in a swing state so who knows maybe it is in an ad.

[2Design]

2. I was at that rally in Raleigh. I drove 5 hours from Va Beach

It was wonderful. Can I borrow/use your picture?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. Absolutely.

Thanks to all for the kind words. Everyone is welcome to use it as they see fit. I was careful to add the photo credit at the bottom (after I "Photoshopped" it) in accordance with the wishes of the Kerry Web Site..."please give the original photographer credit," so that people could freely pass it around without legal issues.

:toast: