Edwards is in

This morning, John Edwards is making the rounds of the network talk shows to announce he’s running for President—no surprise if you’ve been watching the news and following his announcement swing through the early primary states. (Here’s the link to the official Edwards 08 site)
Last night from New Orleans, around 7:30, he got on a conference call to let a group of us NC bloggers in on what he’s going to say and the direction of the campaign. He said he wanted to get up with us early because the Net is important to getting the message out and needs to be a forethought and not an afterthought.
A couple of interesting points of emphasis:
• The country, he said, can’t wait two years for change. It has to start now. I got the impression that action and not change was the operative word.
• Edwards stressed that it is up the citizens to take the reins to rebuild the country and fix its problems. The idea that some politician is going to come along and save us, he said, is nonsense.

We’ll see how these ideas get sliced and diced over the next few days as well as how the Washington establishment responds to the idea that citizen involvement and not the Great Washed in D.C. is the solution.
Here’s the video they sent us shortly afterward.