I only saw the second half of the debates last night, and even then I wasn't fully focused on it. I did catch Edwards closing remarks though, which I thought were very well done. He did them in a way that he was talking to each person sitting in their family room (or whereever they were watching from) and the things he was saying were true, and just emphasized a change is needed. It's not the same seeing it in writing as it is as seeing him deliver it, but here it is anyway.

EDWARDS: "Thank you.

Thank you, Gwen.

Thank you, Mr. Vice President, for being here.

You know, when I was young and growing up, I remember coming down the steps into the kitchen, early in the morning, and I would see the glow of the television.

And I‘d see my father sitting at a table. He wasn‘t paying bills, and he wasn‘t doing paperwork from work.

What he was doing was learning math on television.

Now, he didn‘t have a college education, but he was doing what he could do to get a better job in the mill where he worked. I was proud of him. I‘m still proud of him.

And I was also hopeful, because I knew that I lived in a country where I could get a college education.

Here‘s the truth: I have grown up in the bright light of America.

But that light is flickering today.

Now, I know that the vice president and the president don‘t see it, but you do.

You see it when your incomes are going down and the cost of everything, college tuition, health care—is going through the roof. You see it when you sit at your table each night and there‘s an empty chair because a loved one is serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. What they‘re going to give you is four more years of the same.

John Kerry and I believe that we can do better. We believe in a strong middle-class in this country. That‘s why we have a plan to create jobs, getting rid of tax cuts for companies outsourcing your jobs; give tax cuts to companies that‘ll keep jobs here in America.

That‘s why we have a health care plan. That‘s why we have a plan to keep you safe and to fix this mess in Iraq.

The truth is that every four years you get to decide. You have the ability to decide where America‘s going to go. John Kerry and I are asking you to give us the power to fight for you, to fight to keep that dream in America, that I saw as a young man, alive for every parent sitting at that kitchen table."