Chris Dodd for President

New Hampshire blogger Peter Glenshaw, who's also the Dodd campaign's Grafton County Co-Chair, has a great run down of recent political blogging news and Dodd campaign news coming out of New Hampshire. Check it out if you've been looking for a resource to stay posted on how the Dodd campaign is making progress in the Granite State.

This post was written by the Dodd campaign's new Grafton County co-chair, who just yesterday publicly endorsed us at a meeting of Plymouth-area Democrats and on his blog. Glenshaw is the co-founder of Democracy For New Hampshire.I'm cross-posting his endorsement post here in full. Also, watch Peter talk about why he's endorsed Chris Dodd in this video below. Chris Dodd for President by Peter Glenshaw I am endorsing Senator Chris Dodd for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination. Let me tell you why. It began more than 18 months ago. On a cold Fall day in New Hampshire, Senator Dodd appeared on the porch of my neighbor in Lyme, NH, Peg Little, to support the then-nascent candidacy of Deb Reynolds for NH State Senate. Amidst the rolling fog and the quiet solitude of a Fall morning, Senator Dodd quietly outlined a compelling message about how and why government, and the American people, could still make a positive difference in the world. Senator Dodd first spoke about his father who served as a lead prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials following World War II. At a time when the world had gone mad and justice seemed like the last thing to offer the Nazi war criminals, Dodd described the work of his father and other Americans who ascribed to a better calling. Later, in an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, Dodd wrote "At Nuremberg, we rejected the certainty of execution for the uncertainty of a trial. The test was one of principle over power, and the United States passed." The contrast to President Bush, who has made America the scourge of the world precisely because he has abandoned principle at every turn, could not have been more sharp. Senator Dodd hearkened an era when American involvement signaled a higher purpose, a moral calling even, that aimed not only furthering our own interests but the interests of the entire global community. Then Senator Dodd spoke about himself. After college, Chris Dodd served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic as well the US Army Reserves, before entering more formal public service as a Congressman and Senator from Connecticut. Why? Why did the son of a well-known US Senator volunteer as he did? As Senator Dodd explained it, "An American President asked me to serve, and I did." Since that cold Fall morning on the eve of the historic 2006 elections, Senator Dodd has continued to press these basic points in his campaign for the Presidency. He has called for a corporate carbon tax, an end to the war in Iraq by March 31st, 2008, a health care plan that will cover all Americans, and important changes in education (including universal pre-school and more affordable higher education). And, at a time when public service itself seems suspect, Chris Dodd has called for an ambitious public service program that would cross generational lines and involve all Americans in an effort that would increase our national cohesion at a time when we need it most. E pluribus unum.