I just got an email from my "ex-boyfriend", John Edwards...
Dear Alejandra,
I'm writing to you from New Orleans, where tomorrow I will announce that I am a candidate for president of the United States.
I'm announcing here because no place better demonstrates the two Americas I've talked about for a long time. But even more important, no place better demonstrates the power people have when they -- not Washington -- take responsibility and take action to build the America we believe in....That's why I'm asking you to help spread the word in your area by holding your own local "Citizens' Launch" event tomorrow.It just takes a few minutes to set up, and anyone can do it.
We know what we need to do. Changing our country means:
+ Providing moral leadership in the world -- starting with Iraq, where we should begin drawing down troops, not escalating the war
+Strengthening our middle class and ending the shame of poverty
+Guaranteeing health care for every single American
+Leading the fight against global warming
+Getting America and the world to break our addiction to oil
That's not just my vision -- it's our vision. And we can't wait for the next president to take office to begin fundamentally changing our country.
And the truth is, we don't have to wait. Since I left Washington, I've seen firsthand the power that ordinary people have when we work together.
We worked with thousands of volunteers to raise the minimum wage in six states - and we got it done. We're making the first year of college free for young people in Greene County, North Carolina. And we've been working from the grassroots up to organize workers so they can stand up for their rights and earn a decent living.
And this week in New Orleans, I've been working with young people who gave up part of their Christmas vacation to work on rebuilding and helping those in need -- just like the hundreds of college students who came here to work with me during their Spring Break earlier this year.
This is the kind of commitment to solving our problems that I've seen time and time again over the last two years - and it reaffirms one of the great lessons of my whole life. The power of America doesn't lie in Washington; the true power of America is in the people of America.
That's why we're getting ready to launch a campaign that says to everyone who wants to take responsibility for our future: we can't wait until tomorrow. We must act now.
Tomorrow begins today.
Your friend,
John
Holy crap! What if he asks Obama to be his running mate? Now that would be too fabulous to even fathom.
I'm writing to you from New Orleans, where tomorrow I will announce that I am a candidate for president of the United States.
I'm announcing here because no place better demonstrates the two Americas I've talked about for a long time. But even more important, no place better demonstrates the power people have when they -- not Washington -- take responsibility and take action to build the America we believe in....That's why I'm asking you to help spread the word in your area by holding your own local "Citizens' Launch" event tomorrow.It just takes a few minutes to set up, and anyone can do it.
We know what we need to do. Changing our country means:
+ Providing moral leadership in the world -- starting with Iraq, where we should begin drawing down troops, not escalating the war
+Strengthening our middle class and ending the shame of poverty
+Guaranteeing health care for every single American
+Leading the fight against global warming
+Getting America and the world to break our addiction to oil
That's not just my vision -- it's our vision. And we can't wait for the next president to take office to begin fundamentally changing our country.
And the truth is, we don't have to wait. Since I left Washington, I've seen firsthand the power that ordinary people have when we work together.
We worked with thousands of volunteers to raise the minimum wage in six states - and we got it done. We're making the first year of college free for young people in Greene County, North Carolina. And we've been working from the grassroots up to organize workers so they can stand up for their rights and earn a decent living.
And this week in New Orleans, I've been working with young people who gave up part of their Christmas vacation to work on rebuilding and helping those in need -- just like the hundreds of college students who came here to work with me during their Spring Break earlier this year.
This is the kind of commitment to solving our problems that I've seen time and time again over the last two years - and it reaffirms one of the great lessons of my whole life. The power of America doesn't lie in Washington; the true power of America is in the people of America.
That's why we're getting ready to launch a campaign that says to everyone who wants to take responsibility for our future: we can't wait until tomorrow. We must act now.
Tomorrow begins today.
Your friend,
John
Holy crap! What if he asks Obama to be his running mate? Now that would be too fabulous to even fathom.