"How about if we actually stand up and fight with passion for what we believe in?" he said to cheers from the audience.

From CBS News via Liberal Oasis:

Responding to Dean's initial remark, Edwards said Dean "is not the spokesman for the party."

Dean is "a voice. I don't agree with it," Edwards, a former senator and the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2004, said Saturday at a party fundraising dinner in Nashville, Tenn.

Dear John,

 

I am desperate to vote for you in 2008.  I want to support you.  I want to believe that you believe your populist message of anti-poverty.   But when I see Gov. Dean forcefully open a door to that discussion and then watch you slam it in his face, I have doubts as to your sincerity in the fight against corpo-fascism and the poverty that results from it.   I saw you do the same thing during the primaries, when Gov. Dean courageously mentioned race, but I chalked your attack on Dean up to the heat of the campaign and moved past it.

 

I doubt that I am able to express the gut-wrenching disappointment I felt when I read your comments about Gov. Dean's most recent remarks.  You had a chance to stand up for him as the party leader while, perhaps, smoothing the edges of the truth he spoke - and he did speak the truth:  There is a cold, cruel and very effective reason that the longest lines to vote happened in the poorest neighborhoods, where people are the most short of time.  But you didn't stand up for Gov. Dean or for those people. 

 

I understand the value of diplomacy.  I don't understand shooting a leader in the back when he has the courage to stick his head out of the foxhole and draw fire, while the rest of the army is too polite (or, more accurately, too frightened) to move forward the discussion about corporate abuses, class and poverty that we must have in the country. 

 

Sadly yours,

eRobin

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Comments

[Thomas Nephew]

Yup. Very well said, thank you.

[KathyF]

Agree. I actually came over here to see if you had anything to say about this. Oh, and I see "Unpartisan" has got you in their sites too. (No pun intended.)

[eRobin]

Hey Kathy :) I wasn't kidding. Edwards' response made me sick to my stomach. It's the pedestal syndrome ;)

[Riggsveda]

I suppose the way the Republicans spoke out against Cheney for telling Leahy to go fuck himself was an example that Edwards wanted to emulate.

Oh, wait.