Edwards Joins Dem Prez Field, Hosts Live Online Town Hall Today

John Edwards officially announced his candidacy for president at a news conference this morning in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, a fitting spot to launch a campaign that will focus on poverty and economic justice. CSPAN has the announcement video. My favorite line from the very informal speech: "Americans have to be patriotic about something besides war"

His new campaign website is at JohnEdwards.com/, where they'll be hosting a live online town hall meeting with Edwards today at 4:00 PM Mountain Time. He discusses his plans in this video, and here's a citizen vlog shot by one of his supporters at a clean-up event Edwards organized and helped with in the Ninth Ward yesterday.

Edwards joins two other Democrats who have formally announced they're running. Click for the campaign websites of Iowa's Tom Vilsack and Ohio's Dennis Kucinich. It's expected that a number of other Dems will jump in formally over the next couple of weeks, including our own Governor Bill Richardson.