Bitterness, you say? How about a Unity Ticket and Cabinet to solve America's biggest problems.

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Sunday April 13, 2008 · 7:23 PM PDT

2008/04/13 · 19:23

by Karita Hummer

Cross-posted from: EENR Blog

http://www.eenrblog.com/...

John Edwards knew the way to One America. Would either of the remaining candidates please consult him?

The more I think of the conversation about Obama "bitterness" statements, about economically deprived Americans from small towns that have been forgotten, the more "bitter" I feel about my fellow Democrats, and the remaining Candidates included.

And, yes, Barack Obama, I did grow up in Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania, on the edge of Appalachia. I worked for Bobby Kennedy in 1968, indeed, helped draft him, and I worked for John Edwards, exactly for the same reason. Because they cared and realized about the economic problems of Western Pennsylvania, the Rust Belt, and Rural and Urban American small towns all over America, West, East, North, and South (as in New Orleans), and they didn't need to go on a campaign trail to discover it. No, they went on the campaign trail to solve it and to reach out to the people, with utter respect and empathy.

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Thursday April 03, 2008 · 10:20 PM PDT

2008/04/03 · 22:20

Cross-posted from: EENR Blog

http://www.eenrblog.com/...

Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 13:49:58 PM EDT
Down ticket all the way down, building the Progressive Movement (and the Democratic Party) from the ground up!!

Today, is a quite lovely day in San Jose, CA, and I am preparing a fundraiser for one of the best down ticket candidates one could find, for Santa Clara County Supervisor, Richard Hobbs.

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Monday March 03, 2008 · 11:10 PM PST

2008/03/03 · 23:10

Yesterday I had the occasion to talk with a colleague who had just returned from a trip to her homeland country abroad. She hadn't been back to her homeland for seven years approximately, and she was just amazed to hear the derisive comments about America made by her family and friends while there, who could not believe that she could be happy at all living here. And what has brought all this about.

Well, we all know that it has been seven years of arrogance, imperialism, pre-emptive wars, human rights abuses, erosion of civil liberties, and a foreign policy based on the interests of the largest corporations of America.

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Wednesday February 27, 2008 · 2:57 PM PST

2008/02/27 · 14:57

What is left for a disappointed Edwards’ Supporter to do? Many of us feel we are left with two very disappointing remaining choices for president, for various reasons. But many of us are also left with the feeling that we must hope and pray that one of these remaining choices wins in November, because the alternative is sheer, continued, disaster for our country - "100 years of War".

Well, one way is to follow the lead of the Edwards this week and start focusing on the down line, and through educating the public about the very nature of the problems they face.

There were five obstacles to the substance of Edwards’ message - of peace and economic justice and leveling of the playing field for average Americans - from being heard during his campaign: Media obstinance, stonewalling, indifference and rejection; Campaign Finance Law; Antiquated, unstandardized and downright arcane election law and procedures; a rusty and intransigent Democratic Party establishment; and a dumbed down - purposefully or otherwise - electorate.

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Sunday February 10, 2008 · 10:57 AM PST

2008/02/10 · 10:57

Cross-posted from John Edwards08 Blog
http://blog.johnedwards.com/...

Is anybody paying attention to Bush and Cheney? Heads up, two more reasons for impeachment!

Heads up!! More dangerous by the week: Bush and Cheney! Some attention to the two still in the White House, please!! Very dangerous, indeed.

It's as if we have become drunk or mesmerized, perhaps more like stupefied, by this year's very disappointing, saddening and very long Primary season.

But in the meantime, George Bush gets worse by the day.

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Sunday February 03, 2008 · 4:07 AM PST

2008/02/03 · 04:07

Why we still voted for John Edwards in the California Primary by Absentee Ballot..... and you can, too

Cross-posted from JohnEdwards08 Blog

http://blog.johnedwards.com/...

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2/03/2008 at 5:21 AM EST

So proud that we voted for John Edwards on our Absentee Paper Ballot!!! The Candidate with the best vision and mission for One America!!!!

America Rising!!!!!! Raising a movement!!!!!!!!!

I offer this as a template for your use if you choose to do so.

Karita Hummer

http://blog.johnedwards.com/...

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Friday February 01, 2008 · 11:32 AM PST

2008/02/01 · 11:32

Coss-posted from John Edwards' Blog

http://blog.johnedwards.com/...

The Democratic Party has let us down; now let us fight back. I say infiltrate the Party.

I wrote the following as a comment to a fellow blogger here who wants to leave the Party and start another.

But I think there is another way and this is what I said.

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Thursday January 31, 2008 · 12:48 PM PST

2008/01/31 · 12:48

Cross-posted from John Edwards Blog 2008

http://blog.johnedwards.com/...

John Edwards gets my vote, now, today. I vote now on my absentee paper ballot.

The exact emotions that I know John Edwards, Elizabeth, Cate, Jack and Emma Claire have today. In fact, you could see it in one of John Edwards interviews yesterday. Imagine how he feels with the debates going on tonight.

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Tuesday January 29, 2008 · 3:37 AM PST

2008/01/29 · 03:37

My letter to Senator Kennedy, in response to his letter to me regarding his endorsement.

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Dear Senator Kennedy,

If you see all those good qualities in Barack Obama, good, but I can tell you I do not think he has lived up to those ideals on the campaign trail in Iowa against John Edwards. There was one man who showed the gift of character and leadership in Iowa, and throughout; and that was John Edwards. He showed the greatest degree of ethics, whereas Obama was very unfair in characterizing John Edwards' record as newly populist, and showed questionable ethics in bussing all those students in from Illinois and Indiana. Don't think he was so ethical toward Ms. Palmer in Chicago some time ago either. No, there has been one person who has not compromised his principles and ethics and that has been John Edwards.

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Sunday January 27, 2008 · 11:21 AM PST

2008/01/27 · 11:21

This is my letter as it was printed in the San Jose Mercury News

Some say John Edwards should quit. I say he should not, because too many have not had their voice heard yet in this Primary. And I am proud to say, that this same point of view is held by none other than Martin Luther King III.

John Edwards has been outspoken about poverty in America and in the world as one of our most pressing moral issues, and he has done so with a forthrightness, steadfastness and determination that none of the other candidates have shown or have come even close to showing or understanding.

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Tuesday January 22, 2008 · 1:40 AM PST

2008/01/22 · 01:40

Request to Free Press: Caucuses should be investigated

Cross-Posted from the John Edwards 08 Blog

http://blog.johnedwards.com/...

Isn't the Ballot box the safest place for a Primary vote, rather than in a Caucus?

Ever since my time in Iowa during the Caucus there, when I worked as a volunteer for John Edwards, I have been pondering the question of process and results. Though I admired the energy and commitment of Iowa citizens in the process, I have been left with the nagging feeling that there were some real drawbacks to the process there.

Thus, I wrote a letter to Free Press http://www.freepress.org/... asking them to put a journalistic investigatory spotlight on the process of Caucuses as a way of nominating candidates.

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To Free Press:

Free Press has been in the forefront of advocating for election reform and insisting on fair election and voting results.

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Sunday January 20, 2008 · 8:38 AM PST

2008/01/20 · 08:38

Ask yourself, is there anything fair about American politics today, as manifested in the current Primary Campaign? Most especially under the stranglehold of Corporate (as in consolidated) Media!

Only one candidate in this race has identified the root problem at work in our Country, where progress moves at a snail’s pace or not at all: corporate greed. That has been John Edwards.

So, corporate Media, is doing all in its corporate power to kill off John Edwards’ candidacy. They feed the line of inevitability in one race only, on the Democratic side, night and day, and they did this from Day 1, but most especially since Iowa, when Edwards placed second.

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