This morning, John Edwards delivered an impassioned speech to ACORN's National Convention in Detroit, Michigan. Speaking to organizers and activists gathered at the Cobo Center, Edwards extolled the common goal of ACORN and his Half in Ten campaign to end poverty in America, making frequent appeals to organize and to campaign for Barack Obama this November as part of that cooperative effort:
So let's walk together. Let's not stop until we end poverty in this country. We can't get that with John McCain and four more years of that mess. Eight is enough. But if you want change, if you believe in your heart and soul that anything is possible, then lock arms with me, walk hand-in-hand and let's march to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and put Barack Obama in the Presidency, and make America what it's capable of being. We can do this together. Yes we can. Yes we can, and we will.
It was refreshing to me to see Edwards back in his warrior mold. He spoke at ease once again about the wall dividing those infamous "two Americas," this time integrating a message hope that Obama could undo some of the greatest divisive efforts of the Bush administration. On the whole, the speech offered an amount of optimism largely absent from his '08 primary campaign.
You can see the entire speech HERE, and check out more highlights below the fold...
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