Edwards: Fighting Corporate Greed Will Rally Democrats, Republicans And Independents

Also today, Southwest Iowa's Largest Daily Newspaper Endorses Edwards as "Iowa's best chance at restoring hope for rural areas"

Today at a community meeting in Boone, Iowa, Senator John Edwards said that Democrats, Republicans and Independents must work together to fight the corporate greed that is destroying the middle class. Edwards’ remarks calling on politicians to work across party lines to fix the broken system in Washington come on day four of his “America Rising: Fighting for the Middle Class” bus tour across Iowa. During the final days leading up to the caucuses, Edwards is visiting 38 counties and meeting with thousands of caucus goers to share with them his plans to stand up to powerful interests and make sure hard-working middle class families can get ahead.

“To get real change, we need a president who will stand up against the big corporations and powerful interests who control Washington,” Edwards said today at his “Countdown to Caucus” event in Boone. “We need somebody who is going to fight this fight and win this fight. But I'm not talking about going to Washington as president and fighting politicians.

“I want to be absolutely clear that the corporate greed that is destroying the middle class of this country and stealing your children’s future, it is stealing the future of Democrats’ children, Independents’ children, Republicans’ children, ” Edwards continued. “I'm telling you, this is a message and a cause we can unite America around.”

Earlier today, the Daily Nonpareil in Council Bluffs formally endorsed John Edwards for president. This endorsement, from the daily paper in the largest city in southwest Iowa, is a clear sign of Edwards’ growing momentum going into the Iowa caucuses this week.

“Iowans have big voices and strong convictions,” the Daily Nonpareil wrote in its endorsement of Edwards. “We have families and jobs and needs to survive. And we want a leader who understands us, who listens to us and who will do right by us. That leader is John Edwards.

“The son of a textile mill worker, Edwards has a better knowledge of the wants and needs of rural America,” the endorsement continued. “He can relate to the rural culture better than any of the other democratic candidates, as he is the only candidate with rural roots.

“Edwards knows Iowa. He has spent much of his campaign visiting all of our 99 counties and talking WITH, not AT, our residents. We believe John Edwards is the strongest of all the Democratic candidates and the most viable in a presidential election.”