"Bishop"

En su spot de cierre, John Edwards apela por última vez a la clase trabajadora de Iowa. Utiliza a Doug Bishop, un padre de familia, antiguo empleado de la planta industrial que la empresa Maytag tenía en Newton, Iowa, hasta que fue cerrada el pasado mes de octubre. Para el ex Senador esa experiencia representa un símbolo de su retórica populista.

(...) 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." (...)