{"id":78,"date":"2006-12-30T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2006\/12\/30\/edwards-rally-in-chapel-hill-where-is-the-america-we-all-believe-in\/"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T00:26:31","slug":"edwards-rally-in-chapel-hill-where-is-the-america-we-all-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2006\/12\/edwards-rally-in-chapel-hill-where-is-the-america-we-all-believe-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards rally in Chapel Hill: Where is the America We All Believe in?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image79\" alt=\"dscf1735.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dscf1735.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pretty big rally on the green tonight. A long wait (never known a political rally to start on time). Couple of quick notes on Edwards and his themes:<br \/>\nGet involved. He promised a &#8220;very different campaign&#8221; that takes action now. &#8220;Take action to change America. . .We&#8217;ve got to take it by the horns and bring the change America needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Restore the country&#8217;s moral leadership.<br \/>\n&#8220;Where is the America we all believe in?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Called for the country to lead again in respect for individual rights and liberties.<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" id=\"p80\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/edwardsinch.AVI\">Here&#8217;s the clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the war:<br \/>\n&#8220;I say to all of you, I reject categorically any escalation of this war.&#8221;<br \/>\nSays he rejects this &#8220;McCain Doctrine&#8221; of a surge in troops.<br \/>\nSays, we need to make it clear to the Iraqis that we are leaving.<br \/>\n&#8220;Best way to make that clear is start leaving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spoke out on Darfur, Uganda and AIDS in Africa. On the lack of AIDS drugs to prevent mothers from passing it on to their children.<br \/>\n&#8220;How can the richest nation stand by and watch this happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Called on the country to kick the foreign oil addiction, to change our habits, to do something about Global Warming on a personal level.<\/p>\n<p>Called for moral leadership through universal health care, fighting poverty, by allowing workers to organize. &#8220;If anyone can join the Republican Party just by signing a card, they should be able to join a union the same way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty big rally on the green tonight. A long wait (never known a political rally to start on time). Couple of quick notes on Edwards and his themes: Get involved. He promised a &#8220;very different campaign&#8221; that takes action now. &#8220;Take action to change America. . .We&#8217;ve got to take it by the horns and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}