as a feminist and beginner anti-racism activist, this election season has aggravated the heck out of me. there is a plausible woman candidate. there is a plausible candidate who is a person of color.

and here i've been, rooting for the old white guy.

i think that it's important to elect people of various genders and races and orientations and sizes and abilities.

but i also think it's at least as important to elect people who will *work for* people of various genders and races and orientations and sizes and abilities.

and john edwards has been singing out about the economic inequality in our current system, and how to make it better for everyone.

And we will lift you up with our dream of what's possible: one America -- one America that works for everybody; one America where struggling towns and factories come back to life, because we finally transformed our economy by ending our dependence on oil; one America where the men who work the late shift and the women who get up at dawn to drive a two-hour commute and the young person who closes the store to save for college, they will be honored for that work; one America where no child will go to bed hungry, because we will finally end the moral shame of 37 million people living in poverty; one America where every single man, woman and child in this country has health care; one America with one public school system that works for all of our children; one America that finally brings this war in Iraq to an end and brings our servicemembers home with the hero's welcome that they have earned and that they deserve.

(from his speech today, in new orleans, ending his presidential bid.)

thank you, senator edwards.

now i'm going to go sniffle some and write some more analysis documents for work.