[MadIvan]

Presumably Edwards would then sue him for emotional distress. :-)

It should at least convince Boy Edwards he is not ready to play at this level. I am horrified by what little experience he has - it's as if he wanted to continue his political career, knew he would not win re-election, didn't want to go down as a Representative, had no chance of becoming Governor - he threw the ultimate of "Hail Marys" as you lot would say, and ran for the Presidency. That's an absolutely dreadful way to find someone to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

The idea of "President Edwards" frightens the hell out of me - Tony Blair has met him and came away extremely unimpressed.

Regards, Ivan

[areafiftyone]

Kerry made a huge mistake. He chose popularity over experience. Edwards will goof up big time - Just watch. He may be okay on the campaign trail with all those women oooooing and ahhhhing but when he comes into the studio and has to sit down and hash it out - he's going to screw up BIG TIME! Kerry should have chose Gephardt - Gephardt had over 20 years of experience in the Senate. Just look at the lookwarm response in the media.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

I agree, Edwards lacks the gravitas to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency.

[Wolfstar]

Ivan, John Edwards ran for senate precisely to use the office as a platform to run for the presidency. Ever since he went to Washington after the 1998 election, he has assiduously courted the Washington and New York political media — particularly the broadcast media. He is the darling of the left-leaning contingent of that media, and it is they, more than any other group, who have promoted him as presidential material these last several years.

Much like Clinton before him, Edwards is driven by ambition and hungers for the presidency. What he would do with it if he ever got it is frightening to contemplate. In any case, I see Kerry's selection of Edwards as a complete cave to two big Dem Party power centers: the trial lawyers and the Washington-New York media. The problem Kerry has (aside from the fact that Edwards is the prettier and better spoken of the two) is that Edwards would stab him in the back without hesitation if Edwards thought it would advance his own career.