John explains (among other things) how humans are completely interconnected in all the serious issues we face. How it's the job of the next President to make plain to citizens that this applies within our borders - and outside as well.
He highlights the successes in the 1960s War on Poverty and notes the ways in which it didn't work so well. We should note strategies that worked well and build from those, he argues. "Attack poverty, or our democracy fails."
When the topic turned to political "reality", John Edwards said, "You have no idea how many times I heard (me!) from political consultants that 'you need to talk about the middle class. You can talk about inequality, but you can't talk about poverty.'"
Mr Edwards continued, "The Hell I can't!"
Invest the thirty minutes to watch this great program, and get ready to believe we can do seemingly impossible things.
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/429/video.html
For those of us who worked hard for his candidacy, this really shows what we and he always said. It was never about him personally. It was always about the work we wanted to do.
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