{"id":5574,"date":"2008-01-18T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2008-01-19T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T19:34:10","slug":"video-exclusive-senator-john-edwards-gives-stirring-speech-at-la-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5574","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Senator John Edwards Gives Stirring Speech At L.A. Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senator John Edwards took his presidential campaign to Los Angeles yesterday, speaking to a crowd of about 1,000 at the Southern California Public Service Workers&#8217; headquarters. While Edwards spent the bulk of his nearly 20 minute speech going after special interests, corporations and lobbyists, he also took a few shots, without naming anyone, at his main Democratic challengers:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t bring about change by shuffling papers, and you don&#8217;t bring about change by just giving a speech. We have to actually have some guts, some determination and some fight if we want to bring the change that America so desperately needs.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>Edwards also said that he was the &#8220;underdog&#8221; and challenged the crowd to start a grassroots movement on his behalf that will spread across the country like a &#8220;tidal wave of change.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"233\" data=\"http:\/\/flash.revver.com\/player\/1.0\/player.swf?mediaId=623076&#038;affiliateId=9547\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" id=\"revvervideoa17743d6aebf486ece24053f35e1aa23\"><param name=\"Movie\" value=\"http:\/\/flash.revver.com\/player\/1.0\/player.swf?mediaId=623076&#038;affiliateId=9547\"><\/param><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"allowFullScreen=true\"><\/param><param name=\"AllowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"AllowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/flash.revver.com\/player\/1.0\/player.swf?mediaId=623076&#038;affiliateId=9547\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"allowFullScreen=true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"233\" width=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer Senator John Edwards took his presidential campaign to Los Angeles yesterday, speaking to a crowd of about 1,000 at the Southern California Public Service Workers&#8217; headquarters. While Edwards spent the bulk of his nearly 20 minute speech going after special interests, corporations and lobbyists, he also took a few shots, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,122,62],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-election-2008","category-john-edwards","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}