Crossposted at The Stinging Nettle.
I am asked why I support Edwards and not Clinton or Obama.
The first answer is I am loyal, and I know when I have made the right decision the first time. I came to the conclusion in 2002 that he was the right man for the job. I still believe so, and I am hopeful, indeed ecstatic, over the possibility that he can sweep to office on a wave of Democratic enthusiasm and outrage and finally, at long last, begin to enact the kind of fundamental reforms this country desperately needs.
Health Care, labor, foreign policy, the environment, the role of the Corporation in society. These are all things John Edwards will fight to change with progressive values. Moreover, he owes nothing -- nothing -- to the forces that will fight against those changes.
But the reasoning goes deeper than that. Some of it isn't even reasoning. Some of it is gut. Follow me on my journey below the fold.
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