Jonathan Singer has a good post at MyDD about John Edwards’ shaking off the bad old stump speech for the good, strong speech of belief and action.

I didn’t refrain from voting for John Edwards in the California primary because his language was too unabashedly progressive; I didn’t give him my vote because he wasn’t taking any real risks with his speech. John Kerry did not lose because he was too liberal, he lost because he hedged his bets too often and refused to speak strongly enough about the issues near and dear to his heart when necessary. The same can be said for Al Gore, who should have won by a much larger margin in 2000.

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