Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Why!!!???
John Edwards. Out-charisma-ed by Dick Cheney. Ouch.
Calstuff finds a few other blogs in town. Hey, other blogs in town! Come out, come out, wherever you are! Join us! It's fun! Anyway, other bloggers seemed to be rather unimpressed with the substance half of his speech.
"This is your movement," Edwards said to more than 1500 students and community members filling Pauley Ballroom to the brim. "The poor need a champion. They need you."
They need a bunch of suburban kids who haven't ever actually seen poverty?
Edwards pointed out that in 2004 the U.S. Census Bureau reported 37 million Americans live at or below the poverty level.
"In a country of our wealth, how can that be?" he said.
Well, let's think about this for a second. Suppose all those people making below poverty level suddenly made an extra X thousand dollars, which is enough to put them above the poverty line. Wouldn't we just draw a new poverty line higher up? We'd need a country of absolute lack of wealth in order to make it so that nobody is "poor."
"There is so much positivity and creativity and optimism within college students that has to be harnessed," said sophomore Jenny Cooper.
Sophomore? She's been here a whole year and still believes that?
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