Saying the Right Things from My P.O.V.

Not about Hillary, but about what's wrong with our political system.

In John Edwards' America, no issue matters so much as the fight between you and the system. . . .

He doesn't even describe the details of his universal health insurance plan. Instead, standing in jeans and a blue sport coat, he asks attendees why they think America doesn't already have such a plan. "Drug companies, insurance companies, and their lobbyists in Washington DC," he says. "It's that simple. Really."

Every other ill is tied to the system as well. The prescription drug law, Blackwater, crippling student loans, social security, the pathetic rebuilding of New Orleans—"nothing will happen until we change this corrupt system. . . . "

"The presidential candidate who has raised the most money from Washington lobbyists is not a Republican. It's a Democrat. The candidate who has raised the most money from the health industry—insurance companies and drug companies—is not a Republican. It is a Democrat…. And the candidate who has raised the most money from the defense industry, is not a Republican. It is a Democrat. And all those descriptions fit the same candidate. They're all Senator Clinton. . . . "

Edwards poses the "great moral test of our generation" this way: "Will we get the power in this democracy out of the hands of the few, and the rich, and the powerful, and will we put it back your hands?" Yes, he says. "We can do it."

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