John Edwards continues to stick up for New Orleans, where he launched his second presidential bid, where he has spent time rebuilding neighborhoods and which he uses as Exhibit A in his case against the Bush administration's incompetence.
The impetus this time is that the Commission on Presidential Debates bypassed the Crescent City, announcing on Monday that it plans events next September and October at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Belmont University in Nashville, and Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. The backup sites are Centre College in Danville, Ky., and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Though he would need to build his support -- he's third behind Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the national polls and in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina -- to make it on the debate stage, Edwards said today he will urge the debate commission to reconsider.
"As a nation, all of us have a responsibility to do everything we can to help rebuild this great city, and holding national events in this city, like a presidential debate, will help New Orleans move forward," he said in a statement. "I have made rebuilding this city a central part of my presidential campaign because I believe we cannot stand on the sidelines as President Bush continues to fail the people of New Orleans.
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