Post by Motorcity on Jul 28, 2004 23:57:51 GMT -5
Edwards: Kerry Ready to Build One America
1 hour ago
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
BOSTON - John Edwards praised John Kerry Wednesday night as a man tested by war for national command and promised cheering Democratic National Convention delegates that their ticket will "build one America" no longer divided by income or race.
Republicans are "doing all they can to take this campaign for the highest office in the land down the lowest possible road," Kerry's running mate told a nationwide prime-time television audience.
The vice presidential candidate urged the country to reject that approach and "embrace the politics of hope, the politics of what's possible because this is America, where everything is possible."
Edwards' appearance on the podium prompted the most boisterous demonstration of the convention to date. Thousands of cheering delegates held aloft identical red signs bearing his name, passed out by the boxload just before he stepped to the podium.
He evoked the themes of his campaign against Kerry in last winter's primaries to argue the case for their new political partnership.
"The truth is, we still live in two different Americas," said Edwards, the son of a Carolina mill worker and the first in his family to attend college.
1 hour ago
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
BOSTON - John Edwards praised John Kerry Wednesday night as a man tested by war for national command and promised cheering Democratic National Convention delegates that their ticket will "build one America" no longer divided by income or race.
Republicans are "doing all they can to take this campaign for the highest office in the land down the lowest possible road," Kerry's running mate told a nationwide prime-time television audience.
The vice presidential candidate urged the country to reject that approach and "embrace the politics of hope, the politics of what's possible because this is America, where everything is possible."
Edwards' appearance on the podium prompted the most boisterous demonstration of the convention to date. Thousands of cheering delegates held aloft identical red signs bearing his name, passed out by the boxload just before he stepped to the podium.
He evoked the themes of his campaign against Kerry in last winter's primaries to argue the case for their new political partnership.
"The truth is, we still live in two different Americas," said Edwards, the son of a Carolina mill worker and the first in his family to attend college.