We've got to do our part...

John has battled, under extreme circumstances, to stay within reach of the nomination and it looks like he may pull it off but the votes haven't been counted and anything can happen between now and then so he will need to depend on us to watch his back.
Someone wrote, the other day, that if John Edwards isn't our candidate it will be our lose not his. Let's not let that mistake happen...

Open Letter to John Edwards: Get Ready, John,
They're Going to Come at You with All Barrels Blazing

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Posted December 31, 2007

John Edwards, you better have a strong stomach and a steel rod in your spine. You're going to need it because it's going to get ugly, and you're going to be the target of the ugliness. You hung tough, didn't fade in the polls as some expected and hoped, and now you are poised to make a big showing in Iowa. Now that that's the case, they're going to come after you with all barrels blazing.

The 'they' is not just the gaggle of ultra-conservative slam artists, the Fox network crowd, talk shock jocks, the Wall Street Journal neo-con columnists, and The New York Times neo-neo-liberal bunch. The 'they' is also Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party shot callers. They will slander, slur, and outright frontally assail you. As long as you were a bare afterthought, warm up act to Clinton and Obama, nobody cared.

These two mediagenic darlings have hogged the glare of the media and the public, and with Clinton, it's loathing and vitriol and with Obama, it's curiosity and fake adoration. But John, you quietly, patiently did your homework. You courted the Democratic Party chairs and leaders in Iowa, hammered away on the need for universal health care, a revamped farm policy, labor protections, against corporate pillaging, and most importantly, the disgrace of endemic poverty in a nation of plenty.

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