January 02, 2008
An Iowan Speaks For Edwards Tonight
DES MOINES -- John Edwards has a surrogate of the Iowan variety making his case for him tonight between 5:20 p.m. and 6 p.m. A 60-second spot featuring Doug Bishop, a former Maytag employee who lost his job in 2004, will air across Iowa. Bishop is a regular Edwards companion on the trail ...
This offers a more personal touch somehow than the candidate-to-camera plea ...
Transcript of “Bishop” (60 seconds):
DOUG BISHOP: Now I myself was a former Maytag employee – I was laid off September of 2004.
And I was asked “Would you and your family like to come up and meet Senator Edwards?”
And this is something I’ll never forget – he grabbed my seven-year-old son by the hand, he dropped to one knee, and he looked him straight in the eye, and he said “I’m going to keep fighting for your daddy’s job, I promise you that.”
You know, that stuff sticks with you. That’s the kind of things we need in a leader in this country.
Not somebody that’s going to go to a big fundraiser and say “Write me a check for $2,300, and I’ll let you know you have my support.”
I want a guy that’s going to sit down and look a seven year-old kid in the eye and tell him “I’m going to fight for your dad’s job.” That’s what I want.
I’m going to do my best to make sure that my children aren’t the first generation of Americans that I can’t look them in the eye and say “You’re going to have a better life than I had.”
And I think the person that’s going to get that done is my friend, and yours, Senator John Edwards.
EDWARDS: I’m John Edwards and I approve this message.
(JENNIFER SKALKA)
Posted at 02:35 PM
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