MegaAwesome

This is in response to the excellent endorsements of Edwards around the net lately. In addition to the MyDD list I linked to earlier there’s more roundups here and here.

Let me start this off by talking about my second favorite candidate: Dennis Kucinich. I kept up with Talking Points Memo, the Washington Monthly and a few other blogs, but I didn’t know anything about Kucinich for the majority of the 2004 campaign. It wasn’t that the information wasn’t out there, I just didn’t care. After the 2000 mess I was so turned off to politics that I didn’t even really start paying attention until after the primaries.

I still didn’t know anything about Kucinich until early 2005 when I went to an event at the Seattle Labor Temple about the Social Security fight. I was there to see Jim McDermott, another incredible person, but Kucinich spoke also and I was an instant fan. I don’t think there’s a single issue that I disagree with him on.

But some things are more important than issues.

I firmly believe that John Edwards has what it takes to be a great president. More than just pulling the other ‘top-tier’ Democrats to the left with bold and ambitious positions, he’s outlining a vision of a new and greater America. The issues are all fairly straightforward:

• Health care and college for everyone
• The United States should lead the world and work to solve global issues like poverty and disease
• American workers shouldn’t pay the price for higher executive profits

…and so on. What’s more important than the issues, though, is the reasoning. We need to do these things not because they’re a good idea (which they are), but because it’s who we are. This is America dammit, all of this should be a given.

I support the Democratic candidates because they make me feel proud to be a Democrat. I support Dennis Kucinich because he makes me proud to be a liberal.

John Edwards makes me proud to be an American.

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