As I am writing this post in the lobby of the Hotel Fort Des Moines, Pres. Clinton is standing behind me in the lobby, having campaigned all day for Hillary. He looks tired.
We came back here after a HUGE Edwards rally in West Des Moines. About 2000 people packed what appeared to be a roller rink and were entertained by John Mellencamp as a warm up. This is our country! Then Elizabeth introduced the candidate, and he gave the fight speech I expected. It was electric. He emphasized the stories of his parents and grandparents as mill workers - his parents were on stage with him. His message is we need to fight corporations and special interests - the unfairness of the HMO CEO making 100's of millions while the ordinary worker can't afford health insurance - ExxonMobil making record profits while 35 million go hungry and veterans sleep on grates. Some of the rhetoric was the same as the Paul - we want to take our country and our democracy back. Again, he did not name his rivals, but attacked their academic/philosophical (Obama) and politcal (Clinton) motivations for change, saying that instead that we need to fight for it and not back down. He described his law career as one fighting for the little guy against corporations. He will never negotiate with them, but fight against them. He quoted Harry Truman as responding to someone's encouragement to "give 'em hell", by saying that he just tells the truth and it looks like hell. If I said "fight" a lot in this post, that is a reflection. The crowd was huge (motivated in part perhaps by Mellencamp) and excited.
Edwards Rally 1:
Edwards Rally 2:
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