Reply #17: Hmm

[JustAnotherGen]

The color of the skin doesn't matter to me nor does gender (bi-racial woman is replying here:-) ). I want to pull the lever for the candidate I think most closely matches my point of view. That's what it comes down to for me.


I don't have millions and millions of dollars like JRE. I don't live in a mansion. I didn't come from 'nothing' - But I do very, very well. I do well as a result of the opportunities my parents were able to 'buy' for me - if that makes sense?

I want every American who is living in poverty or straddling that line in our shrinking middle class to do well - to have health care - to have a job that allows them to not only put a roof over their end, but enough to save and and enjoy life as well.


For me? I'm a member of Edwars One Corps. To me? John Edwards represents people like me that go in work in Food Banks in Northern New Jersey - even if it means car pooling from chi chi poo poo Somerset County to do so . . . all the way down to Camden. So what if wear a JRE 2008 button when I do so?

The poorest of the poor are in Camden NJ - they need to see that someone, somewhere gives a shit. And that man gives a shit.

Just because you have money - doesn't mean you don't care.

As well, I've had breast health issues, and have lost an Aunt to Breast Cancer. He isn't talking shit when he says he can't imagine what a woman does that can't afford basic health care . . . I read stories about women my age (early thirties) dying of breast cancer and say, "There but for the Grace of Good Luck and Fortune go I." I'm fortunate enough to have had health insurance that covered not mammograms - oh no - those are crappy machines for young women - but Breast MRI's.

He GETS that.