In the regular shameless promotion spot for my Sunday Out on a Limb column, I'm writing about the last push for John Edwards who has campaigned hard on a consistent theme of economic populism and is calling on the country to rise up and take back the power. Is Edwards capturing a big undercurrent of economic anxiety? In the end do voters have enough empathy to care about the economic misfortune of others. I have a long distance talk with a big supporter and volunteer of Edwards who's spending some of his time helping out the campaign -- from Sudan.
Mitt's travails
On the good news side, Rep. Tom Tancredo gave up his presidential bid and endorsed Mitt Romney which gives the Mittster the zenophobic voting block. On the bad news side, both the Boston Globe and Boston Herald, papers who know Mitt the best (or at least think they do), endorsed John McCain. And then there is the issue of Mitt's memory and his video game use of history -- as in he remembers seeing his father George (former Michigan governor and 1968 presidential candidate) marching with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In my daily link, Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo deciphers the Mittster's tortured "see/saw" explanation about what really didn't happen was a metaphor for good intentions about his Civil Rights bonafides.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/061649.php
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