I need to know the candidate will be John Edwards

by George Robertson [courtesy of Blog for America]

I need to know the candidate will be John Edwards not Clinton.  I wanted   the party to equalize or at least neutralize the influence of the big money disparity in the primary race.   I did not get that.  Even though doing that would have guaranteed victory in the general election by  minimizing the cost of the primary for all democrats, and by making the Democratic party the party that had stepped up to really embrace campaign finance reform, in 2008 in a meaningful way (without unilaterally disarming in the general election).   Now the huge disparity in primary money is distorting and distracting  discussion away  from any discussion of  my interests as an ordinary American, and making who has the most money the only topic that matters.   The Democrats are no more credible than they've ever been, maybe less.   The base is disgruntled and we have another election about money  and not  about me and all of the othe 350 million working Americans like me.  

Let's keep this simple,  I need to see a Democratic Party  nomination  race that is about getting Universal Single Payer  healthcare for me.  I have to know what you're going to deliver for me, before I decide what I can do for you.   You get me a presidential candidate that will really deliver Universal Single Payer Health Care, no privatized substitutes,  the real thing,  then my support, and the campaign contribution support of every ordinary American  is suddenly an investment as opposed to a gift, just like the support of those big money lobbyists is, when they launder money through to  the Republicans campaigns.   You get me Universal Single Payer Healthcare for $4300 per year like the French have,  just like people have everywhere else  in the western industrialized world, and  I'll borrow money to support your campaign.  I'll get it all back in  money saved on my healthcare in the first year.  You will drown in the money we'll give you.

It is simple.  You want something, I want something.  Something for us ALL.    So far  Edwards is the only one who seems to be serious about getting it for us and who would actually be able to win.  So far, I don't see the party moving to get his back on the nomination.  Get back to me when you're serious about winning.