Edwards May Announce Next Week

There's word that Edwards may announce his second run for the presidency next week, after Christmas, and will make the announcement in New Orleans. Remember New Orleans? The place where we learned just how incompetent Bush and his advisers are? Yet another place where even the Republicans in Congress couldn't be bothered to clean up one of the president's messes? If Edwards announces in New Orleans, it's a good choice.

Here's more from the AP story on MSNBC:

Among Democrats, Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois are drawing the most attention almost two years before the actual vote.

Edwards, however, is in a strong position as the leading candidate in Iowa. ...

Since the Democrats’ loss to President Bush, Edwards has worked to build support for a repeat presidential bid. He has a retooled agenda that is more openly progressive and has spent time building relationships with labor leaders and traveling overseas to build his foreign policy credentials beyond his one term in the Senate.

There are at least six more Democrats who are expected to announce, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Let's hope a year from now one of the Democrats knows how to lead our nation out of the failures that have been imposed on us by Bush and his Republican enablers. Let's hope our nation gets a real leader this time and not someone who retools his message every three months and does photo ops while lying to the American people.

We've had good leaders from Republicans in the past, Abraham Lincoln being the best of them all. But the Republicans show no sign of giving us anything close to that kind of leadership. It's now up to the Democrats. We have an obligation to get it right.