A Message from Elizabeth Edwards

[DeepModem Mom]

Run time: 01:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzBQzhdKxoc   Posted on YouTube: September 26, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 28, 2007 By DU Member: DeepModem Mom Views on DU: 2545

 

[ultraist]

1. Go Elizabeth!

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[jsamuel]

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[Catchawave]

14. Kewl ! Only 11 more DUers needed to hit DU's 100 supporters!

[saracat]

2. Elizabeth rocks and so does her husband. Batten down the hatches.Edwards is going to win!

John and Elizabeth deserve to win because they are "real" people who actually care, not political robots. John and Elizabeth learn from mistakes and alter course, unlike those who can never learn or change.
It is time for reality in the White House.It is time for change.It is time for John Edwards!

[rusty quoin]

3. I want to believe that, but lately I have my doubts.

[saracat]

4. That is exactly how some want you to feel .Don't fall for it! Edwards is getting

better and better.Now is not the time to doubt. This is happening even as we speak.The time is now.

[rusty quoin]

5. Yeah, and everytime you post and I see the photo of Elizabeth,

it make me feel good to see a fellow supporter of Edwards.

[saracat]

6. Thank you.There are quite a few of us!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

20. You know, there's no doubt corporations want Sen. Clinton to win.....

.... and she's campaigning to the corporations and the rich. Edwards isn't. Also, Edwards is not doing a media corporation campaign. He's doing a grass-roots campaign, asking the ordinary people (us) to vote for him.

Sure, the media corporations want us all to believe that Sen. Clinton is already a winner, and that it's a foregone conclusion. The reality is quite different, actually. I talk to people all the time who reflect the complete opposite of what the media is trying to brainwash us to believe, the same way they tried to brainwash us into believing that Bush was doing the right thing by using most of our tax dollars to attack and pillage the Iraqi people, thereby enriching the already-rich, and making war corporations very very wealthy.

Don't believe the media. They need Sen. Clinton because she will continue the Iraq War. We don't need that. We need our tax money to help us, the middle class, the poor, the disabled, seniors, single mothers, and all those others who, since 2000, are suffering much more than they were already suffering.

The reality is, Senator Clinton is not a good candidate. Republicans hope she's chosen. It's their only chance of winning the presidential race again, as she's the weakest link the Dems have got by virtue of being a woman, and by virtue of pandering to the interests of corporations and the rich.

I think grass roots will win. People who are financially strapped are suffering, and they're not stupid. They now know Republicans aren't the ticket, and they want someone who understands that there are indeed two Americas, and that it's got to end.

[BigBearJohn]

8. WOW! That was POWERFUL

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Please !!! PUT THIS ON TV !!! nt

[DeepModem Mom]

10. Just a note -- When I turned on MSNBC this morning, I think the question of "exploitation"...

of Elizabeth's illness in this ad was being asked. UVA's Larry Sabato was defending the ad as referencing her illness in a way, but that it was a part of her life, and she was supporting her husband just as Bill supports his wife -- on a pesonal level. He defended this, it seemed, as part of the candidates' being human beings. I thought he did well.

As someone who's had cancer in our immediate family, I really don't understand not giving a pass to those going through this to deal with it in any way they choose. I'll never forget, for example, when Katie Couric interviewed John and Elizabeth in such a confrontative way.

[Ninga]

11. Illness or not...Elizabeth speaks the truth...no one holds the card for eternal life.

Who knows when the day comes, when you will not wake up?

How will you live your dash?

You know that little dash between the year you were born and the year you die?


What she says is that taking action sooner, rather than later, benefits the giver as well as the taker.

[DeepModem Mom]

12. Exactly -- her message is universal. nt

[Catchawave]

13. MSNBC seems to keep getting pundits this morning

who are "uncomfortable" with the ad. Geesh.

Yes, the universal message is powerful "Life's Short, Play Hard", and who better understands that, than Elizabeth.

Also, this may come as a shock to a lot of people...we are all going to die :D

[Peregrine Took]

15. Good observation! Ca patients can say or do anything they want in my book.

[defendandprotect]

16. A very positive reminder about "time" -- Truth is I want Elizabeth Edwards in the White House -- !!!

[ChiciB1]

17. OMG... I Just Love This Woman!! And She Is So Very Correct...

Just last week I got a call from a cousin that his wife died suddenly of a heart attack. She was in her early 60's and it was a SHOCK! A shock because some do live a very long time, like my mother-in-law who is now 95! My mother died fairly young at 67 of pancreatic cancer within 6 months of diagnosis. So this message hits home to me.

Only problem with my mother-in-law is that she has SEVERE Alzheimer's and has been living with us for over 8 years! It is unfortunate that she can no longer understand or converse with us, I have come to think that it's my husband and I who are supposed to be learning some lesson from having to care for her, even in her condition. I wondered for some time why a "higher being" would prolong her passing when she is basically here in body alone. She's the last of 7 sisters and brothers and was the 2nd oldest. Some with Alzheimer's remember things in the past, but her last brother died earlier this year and she didn't even comprehend that!

My neighbor's nephew just died last year and he was only 39 and my close friend's wife died 10 months ago of cancer at 56. Elizabeth too knows about a lot of tragedy too!! I know there are those here will say some distasteful things about her appeal, but I say "shame on you" because maybe they don't understand what it means to lose those near and dear to you.

I recently donated through ActBlue, so let's do what we can! These people really have "HEART!"

[DeepModem Mom]

18. Thanks for your heartfelt post, ChiciB1. nt

[ChiciB1]

19. THANK YOU... For Your Post! I'm Not Good At This Stuff, I Just

re-act! It's so depressing when all we seem to do is try to knock someone off the block, so when I see Elizabeth with her message I remember there IS goodness even among the chaos!

The sincerity comes through, at least it does for me and should anyone try to say it's something else, I may go ballistic myself! And that's NOT what I'm about!

[Inspired]

21. Tomorrow begins today.

This was powerful and so true.

[cynthia]

22. Elizabeth is awesome

I love her. I so want her to be in the White House.

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