John Edwards for President? for Monday, November 26, 2007

According to this AP story from New Hampshire as Edwards touts his honest and his experience as a lawyer fighting for justice:

"While you shop (for candidates), I hope you will think about two key things: Who can you trust to tell you the truth about what's wrong in Washington, and who can you trust to fight like hell to make it right?" Edwards said during a town hall-style meeting Monday. "Those are the two things we need in the next president of the United States."

Edwards then turned to his background as a trial lawyer and work on behalf of plaintiffs.

"What I did was I gave them hope. And then I walked into that courtroom and I gave the company hell because they deserved it," he said. "That's the kind of fight we need. We need a president of the United States who will give you hope, who will stand up and fight for you to reclaim democracy. ... But we also need somebody who is ready for that fight, somebody who has been engaged in that fight. I've been in this fight my entire life. It didn't start last year. It didn't start in 2004."

Edwards said he is the candidate with a record of upsetting the system and standing firm.

"I won. I just didn't fight, I won and I won ... not just because I was right, but because I never gave up and I will never give up."

He also joked about the wealth his courtroom-based work gave him.

"Today, as many of you have heard, I don't live in a small house," he said to laughter.

If you are increasingly interested in what John Edwards stands for, and his plan for One America, check out Edwards' extensive policy overview including an 80-page policy paper that is available as a PDF. Edwards has been unique amongst all the presidential candidates in proposing policies and coming up with papers on a whole breadth of issues.

If the above link doesn't take you to the right page, you can read the PDF online by clicking here.

John Edwards has released an energy efficiency and affordability plan for families that are suffering from increasing heating costs this winter according to this New York Times story:

Former Senator John Edwards outlined a proposal yesterday in New Hampshire to lower the cost of heating oil, increase regulation of oil companies and promote energy efficiency.

...To ease the financial burden for low-income families, Mr. Edwards, a Democrat from North Carolina, said Congress should tap into its heating and oil reserves and increase subsidies to the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which he said President Bush had unfairly scaled back. In February, Mr. Bush proposed an 18 percent cut in the program, which provides $2.2 billion this year to help people pay heating bills.

...He proposed increasing financial assistance for a program to winterize homes, putting it on a $500 million annual budget, and supporting emergency loans for families to pay heating bills.