In your debate last week with Vice President Cheney, he attacked your record in the Senate. But what got all the attention was the question of whether or not the two of you had met.
But there's another part of what he said that I want to ask you about. According to the news reports, you attended just three of 36 meetings of the Judiciary Committee, the worst record of any member of that panel, and you attended just four of 13 public meetings of the Intelligence Committee.
For someone who's been in the Senate less than a full term, isn't that a problem?
EDWARDS: No, I'll tell you exactly what happened. I was in -- the first several years I was in the Senate, I had almost a perfect attendance record. And then I watched what was happening under this administration.
I mean, I had to fight this administration tooth and nail in their efforts to roll back our clean air laws. John McCain and Senator Kennedy and I wrote the patients' bill of rights, got it passed in the Senate. They blocked it. We fought to make sure we did something about drug company advertising on television. They blocked it.
I helped write the laws after September the 11th to keep this country safe, but at that point, I came to the conclusion that the only real solution to this was to get George Bush out of the White House. And that's when I decided to run for president, and that's the period of time that they're talking about.
I don't see an answer to Wallace's question in there, do you?
No, he rarely answers the question posed.
He's a slick, sick, lying lawyer who has
been absent most of his term in the senate
running for VP.
His selection was Kerry's biggest mistake.
Edwards won't carry one Southern state!
So his excuse is that he started running for President starting his first year in the Senate?!
Gotta wonder what folks in his state think about that.
Ludicrous. "Hey, congress stinks! I don't like the way the game is played, so I'm going home....no, I'm running for president. So there. (Meanwhile, back in Chappaqua, Hill's putting champagne on ice. She'd never settle for the Supreme Court. One of nine? No way, not for Ms. Meglomaniac. Notice that she was pretty in pink again for her tv appearances the other night when GW took Kerry behind the barn and beat the living.....out of him.) And isn't it peculiar that the MSM still insists it was either a draw or that Kerry's ahead by a neck. Funny, because Terry McAuliffe and I were watching the same debate and he admitted Kerry had lost. Fox has that on tape.
So he blames his absenteeism on the President. Kinda like Courtney Love blaming the Prez for her troubles, eh? So in a roundabout way, he acknowledges his being AWOL, but please, his intentions were noble. That excuses everything.