John Edwards: Time to End the Game

Via Suburban Guerrilla,

John Edwards gave a great (long) speech in New Hampshire today:

From the Agonist:

Senator Edwards, in his second run for the Presidency, is a different man, and a different candidate, than the Senator Edwards of 2004. Back then Senator Edwards of 2004 was a conservative Democrat, hoping to make the Clinton case. A great deal has happened since then, and without speculating too much on the means of his conversion, he has walked across the road from a man who, in his gut, believes the system works and ordinary people just need their share - that is a conservative populist - to be a progressive populist. A man who believes, fundamentally, that the game itself is holding us back.

In his "End the Game" speech, Edwards cements this position as the essentially progressive major candidate. He is now against the war he once accepted on faith from experts from the old order. He is now adamant about universal health care, and he is watching his country struggle with a cancer the way his wife is struggling with a cancer. And he has closed the loop. Our small problems and our large problems are the same. The reason ordinary people don't have enough, is because there isn't enough to go around.

I'm liking Edwards more and more.

~BT