Thanks John…

To John Edwards, Thanks.

For doing your part in keeping the ongoing issue of New Orleans and its recovery from the flood a part of the presidential race and for keeping an agenda on the worsening issue of poverty and class in the United States.

I understand that aligning yourself with New Orleans was a risky move. Folks like to pretend that not only August 29, 2005 never happened but the poverty and helplessness it exposed never happened. For those who tout our country as the greatest on Earth, it was a shattering expose. They would rather ignore it or, as some have insanly suggested, destroy it rather than do what you proposed in your campaign: fixing it.

Perhaps now is not the time. Perhaps in a few more years. Perhaps in a few more decades.

If your name is still on the ballot in Louisiana when our primary rolls around, I’ll still cast my vote for it.

– The Chicory