Edwards Addresses Global Warming ("the great moral test of our generation")

[JohnLocke]

Edwards Addresses Global Warming
By Cain Burdeau - Associated Press
Saturday, November 3, 2007
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Saturday called reversing global warming a "great moral test" and said the next president needs to stand up to industries resisting change.

"This is the great moral test of our generation. Are we actually going to leave this planet and America better for our children than we found it?" Edwards said at an environmental rally in New Orleans.

"Why have we not addressed the issue of climate change and global warming?" Edwards said. "I'll tell you why, no question about it: oil companies, gas companies, power companies and the lobbyists in Washington, D.C. We have to have a president who will stand up to these people."

Last month Edwards picked up an endorsement from the national environmental group Friends of the Earth Action.

He has become a frequent visitor to New Orleans. On Saturday, he spent time at a Habitat for Humanity site where homes are being built for displaced musicians.

He kicked off his presidential campaign last December in New Orleans and he's made the botched recovery from Hurricane Katrina and the social ills the storm exposed themes in his campaign.

Edwards said his campaign has "developed momentum" since Tuesday's televised debate, which he called a pivotal moment in his campaign. He said voters now have clear choices.

"From my perspective, the choices are between the status quo and change," he said. "And we need change in the worst kind of way in America."

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[Nutmegger]

1. R&K....

... for Edwards! :thumbsup::applause::kick:

[denem]

3. "say one thing at one time and an another thing at another time"

I"m rather sick of 'the great moral test of our time" / "greatest moral test of our time" : he's used those words about terrorism - nuclear proliferation - poverty - corporate influence in Washington - and now global warming.

I'm going off Edwards at a rate of knots

[zalinda]

4. But, we are at a great moral test

on ALL of those things. We can't say let's do one, but forget about the others. Bush has screwed this country and the planet more ways than I can even imagine. Do we keep doing what we've been doing or change? How about just slowing down the damage, does that work for you? Or should there be a total change? The moral test is whether we are ready to sacrifice to clean up this mess. Do we, this generation, have what it takes to make things right again. Do we have what the WWII generation had, guts, hard work, sacrifice and a coming together........THAT is our moral test.

zalinda

[Old Codger]

2. Edwards

Personally I believe he should have been the lead candidate instead of VP last time.... He is the only Dem. I can vote for, if he isn't the nominee I will most likely vote Republican...The rest of them are pretty much unelectable regardless of what people say in the so called "polls". In public people will claim to favor Clinton but when it comes down to it they will not vote for her..

[ddeclue]

5. bump bump de bump

[JohnLocke]

6. Kick (nt).