How will he clean up Bush's squalid mess? And how can we help him?
A Kerry victory will be due not only to the blogosphere's funding efforts but to the bloggers holding Kerry's feet to the fire. It's bloggers who'll have to urge Kerry not to run away from his voting record, but to embrace his liberalism -- and define it as the foundation of the values that led to this country's great social breakthroughs. It's bloggers who'll have to embolden Kerry to ask the American people to commit themselves to a large, collective purpose that looks beyond our own self-interest -- and to a more just and equitable society. And it's bloggers who'll have to convince him to reach out to the 50% of eligible voters who didn't vote in 2000 -- the young, the poor, the disenfranchised.
The blogosphere is now the most vital news source in our country. I've toiled in the world of books and syndicated column writing, but more liberating is the blogosphere, where the random thought is honored, and where passion reigns. While paid journalists often just follow a candidate around or sit in the White House press room and rehash a schedule, blogs break through the din of our 500 channel universe and the narrow conventional wisdom. For that the blogosphere has my undying gratitude.
