http://news.yahoo.com/photo/051210/480/flbp10712102024;_ylt=AlNmaleS4pai3zA76HuRsLdh24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3bGk2OHYzBHNlYwN0bXA-Democrats Test Themes for `06 and `08 By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer
2 hours, 6 minutes ago
Democrats Test Themes for `06 and `08
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - To hear Democrats tell it, an anxious and isolated public craves a sense of national community and would galvanize behind a leader who asks people to sacrifice for the greater good. John Edwards says he's that leader.
Wait a minute, so does Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack. Ditto for Virginia Gov. Mark Warner.
Edwards, Vilsack and Warner, all likely presidential candidates in 2008, are toying with the same lofty community-and-purpose message. And that says as much about the sour mood of the country as it does about the state of the Democratic Party.
"There is a hunger in America, a hunger for a sense of national community, a hunger for something big and important and inspirational that they all can be involved in," Edwards, the party's 2004 vice presidential nominee, told delegates at a weekend convention of Florida Democrats.
"Americans don't want to believe that they are out there on an island all alone," the former North Carolina senator said.