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EDWARDS IS IN. John Edwards reportedly chose the quiet week before the new year to formally announce his second run for the Democratic presidential nomination in hopes of having the political press all to himself, but things are not exactly going as planned. Gerald Ford's death has created a major competing story, and a website goof today forced him to move up his announcement. Reports the A.P.:
Former Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards jumped into the presidential race Wednesday a day earlier than he'd planned, prodded by an Internet glitch to launch a candidacy focused on health care, taxes and other domestic issues.The North Carolina Democrat's campaign accidentally went live with his election Web site a day before an announcement Thursday that was supposed to use Hurricane-ravaged New Orleans as a backdrop. The slip-up gave an unintended double-meaning to his campaign slogan on the John Edwards '08 Web site: "Tomorrow begins today."Aides quickly shut down the errant Web site but could not contain news of the obvious...I'll reserve comment on the substance of his announcement until it's online for real, but for now I'll just note that the campaign slogan reported by the A.P., "Tomorrow begins today," was also the motto of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK); a United Nations event in East Timor; and the the Romania Libera newspaper. It's also the title of this Asian Dub Foundation song from 2005. It is, in short, a not infrequently used phrase, and will remind people of something, even if they can't tell exactly what.
It certainly reminded me of something, at any rate: "Tomorrow Begins Today" was also the title of one of the central texts of the Zapatista rebellion in Mexico, written by Subcomandante Marcos in 1996, and delivered as his closing remarks at the Zapatista-sponsored First International Encuentro (Encounter) for Humanity and Against Neo-Liberalism in August of that year. It was featured on the posters for the conference, as well, according to the graphics accompanying this article in The New Internationalist.
I'm sure others have used it, too.
--Garance Franke-Ruta
