A Moment of Respect

Dr. X posts this from Starbucks in Mid-Town:

"I don't have much use for John Edwards. Pretty boy. Lawyer. Senator. Couldn't deliver his own state when he was on the ticket.

"But right now, today, he is talking serious sense - one of the few Democrats who understands that they can only win if they drop the bullshit and own up to what they stand for. Here is a bit from an appearance in Connecticut last week:

" 'And it's not just what's happening over there. We have to demonstrate that we will do what needs to be done right here. I grew up in the United States where we believed that we were the shining light, remember? Before Guantanamo, before Iraq before Abu Grhaib. We were the model for the rest of the world. By the way, we're not the only ones who saw those images coming out of New Orleans. We're not, the whole world saw them. And they're watching to see if we will actually turn our backs on 37 million of our own people who wake up everyday worried about feeding and clothing their children. My view is this is the great moral issue within the US... Ned mentioned another, 46 - 47 million people who have no health care coverage. Why can't my party, the Democratic party show some courage and leadership and say, "we will fight for universal health care for every single American?" '

"Why indeed."