Tuesday, November 13, 2007

John Edwards, Me, And Lunch with a Plastic Spoon.

Now there's so much that draws me to the the campaign of a mill worker's son. I read yesterday that his father had to borrow $50 dollars to pay the medical bills after he was born, so he and his wife could take their son home from the hospital. That is something that really speaks to me, staring at a medical bill for stitches I received for an on-the-job injury as a federal employee that worker's comp is steadfastedly ignorning. Work should work for the people who work, for the people who go to work with a bagged lunch and a plastic spoon, for the people like me, who get up to go to work before public transportation even starts. Work should work.

Conservative smear bloggers are crowing the loudest about Hillary being inevitable as the Democratic nominee, but all of us should take heart considering how late-deciders are so very important as voters. In Iowa and everywhere. Attack blogs are in spasms over Edwards' ideas for paid family leave is an astounding and courageous plan: 8 weeks of paid leave for new parents and that we should expand leave options to 13 million more works. Edwards truely is the pro-family candidate in this campaign. But conservatives don't want parents who are up all night feeding the newborn to get a break- hey it would only corrupt them and give the runt the idea that no one ever has to go back to work. And yeah, that is the line out there they are shrilling to the skies. Good to see conservatives showing their true colors.

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