Blame the messenger, not our indifference
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
By Staff
We're poor. So why did so few people buy John Edwards' message?
MARY C. SCHULKEN
John Edwards spoke with conviction, although perhaps not complete credibility, as he ended his campaign for president.
"Do not walk away from what's possible," he said, "because it's time for all of us, all of us, together to make the two Americas one."
The North Carolinian's quest for the White House began and ended in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, the bleak landscape a backdrop to his theme of fighting against poverty and for people who are voiceless and struggling.
But Edwards could just as easily have been talking from his home state, standing in an empty tobacco field or a shuttered, cheap-wage cut-and-sew operation in Robeson County. The latest Census estimate found that 32 percent of the people in that rural county are poor — the highest rate in the state. Five years ago, only 23 percent were poor.
Here's the question left by Edwards' campaign flop: Does anybody care about poverty? (more…)
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