Edwards: “I want America to join us...to end the great work Bobby Kennedy started."

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Edwards Ends Poverty Tour by Broadening His Theme

==By SUSAN SAULNY
Published: July 19, 2007

PRESTONSBURG, Ky., July 18 — Former Senator John Edwards wrapped up his three-day poverty tour Wednesday in this village deep in Appalachia, and suggested that the “two Americas” theme of his Democratic presidential campaign was an appeal for help not just for the poor, but also for all working Americans bypassed by the nation’s prosperity.

The location was strategic. The last presidential hopeful to visit this town was Robert F. Kennedy, at the end of a 200-mile antipoverty tour of eastern Kentucky nearly 40 years ago, just one month before he formally announced his candidacy. Mr. Edwards, though saying he did not deserve to be compared to Kennedy, whom he described as his political hero, nonetheless sought to link his campaign’s central theme, the elimination of poverty, to work that Kennedy championed.

“This fight to revive and make available the American dream, it continues every single day,” the candidate told a crowd of hundreds on the courthouse lawn here, adding later, “I want America to join us, all of us, to end the great work Bobby Kennedy started.”==

==And here in Prestonsburg, he said that the “two Americas are the very rich and everybody else” — not only the extremely impoverished but all workers who are struggling because of a lack of adequate benefits and wages.==

Read the rest at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/us/politics/19edwards.html

[illinoisprogressive]

1. I thought his tour was something he enjoyed. It's his passion.

With Elizabeth on fire right now and stirring up interest, she is such an asset. but, elizabeth is such a cool person.

[glitch]

2. "finish" would've been a better word than "end"

I say this in case E.E. is reading and they want to make a meme. :)

[Nutmegger]

3. R&K for Edwards.

:kick:

[waiting for hope]

4. K&R for Edwards!

[Totally Committed]

5. "End"???? Bad choice of words.

I think "finish" would have been better, but maybe he did mean "end". Who knows?

??? ---- That way he can never say he didn't tell us, and we just misunderstood?

TC

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6. We all make mistakes while speaking

Edwards is not always going to find the perfect word. He is, after all, human. :) Edwards commitment to the issue is clear.