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The John Edwards campaign office in Charleston SC is an empty strore front located between homeless shelter and a mission.
I can not help but being a changed person, having been here the last 5 days, away from the comfort of my home.
How meaningless and silly is it, that I type in my message to post on DU...from my cell phone.
The squabling and fighting I am catching up on means nothing to the five people huddled together on the wall near their beds left on the curb. It is so different to rush past street people in 5 seconds...it is a whole different story when you spend five days in their world.
MLK,III in his letter to Edwards bravely acknowledged that Edwards is not a light weight, nor is he a flash in the pan, but a progress voice for the same values his father embraced and lived.
There are none so blind, as those who will not see.
I am going back to the real world...that lives beyond the walls of the Internet.
Words may fill the soul and stroke the ego, but they do nothing for the five people who have empty bellies.
One of them said to a group of us, we don't know what we are going to do when you are gone. I don't know either.
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