Be Brave, and of Good Heart, because you can support a candidate who is the same. by BruceMcF

Tue Oct 02, 2007 at 03:51:18 PM CDT

... but, but, but, Edwards is doing this to try to win the nomination

One red herring argument that gets tossed into this is the point that this decision is likely to benefit the Edwards campaign.

This is a puzzling point. Ever since mandatory limits were knocked down by the courts, the system was designed so that it would benefit candidates, in order to entice candidates to enter into the system.

So it should not be surprising that even when the fund-raising leaders have pushed themselves well beyond the limits of the system, in a ferocious campaign financing arms-race, there are a large number of candidates who can still gain an advantage from the system.

However, this is a useful debating point for distracting from the question of why else the candidate has made this decision ... knowing that the exact controversy that we are seeing this week would be certain to erupt as a result.

And the simplest answer is that John Edwards has the courage of his convictions, and those convictions are the same as he expressed in the campaign-announcement-announcement above. We can't wait for change to arrive. We need to be the change that we are waiting for. And by joining together, we can build the organization that will bring it about.

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Much much more here.