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Edwards: "Democratic Voters Have Made Their Choice, And So Have I"
via TPM Election Central by Greg Sargent on May 13, 2008
In his endorsement speech, Edwards boiled it down:
"The reason I am here tonight is that the Democratic voters in America have made their choice, and so have I."
Edwards rattled through some of his familiar, if now distant, exhortations about "one America." In a rousing summation, he talked about the struggles of the poor, the difficulties of those coping without health insurance, and veterans who were returning home only to face neglect.
"No more in our America," Edwards concluded, "when Barack Obama is President of the United States of America!"
But most significantly, Edwards effectively said, "The Democrats have made their choice. The primary is over," precisely at a moment when the Hillary campaign is making the opposite case. You really couldn't imagine a moment more perfectly scripted for the Obama campaign, coming right after Obama's lopsided loss in West Virginia, than this.
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