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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (19071)	5/18/2002 1:13:41 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Dolinar, Edwards is definitely being groomed for a run at the White House in 2004. He has the right stuff. Photogenic, Southern, Mr. Clean sort of track record, lots of financial backing from the trial lawyers. There's a lot of positives about him. I know very little about his politics. I suspect he's more in bed with the corporatized Democratic Leadership Council than he is with the more progressive elements in the party. Thus I believe he can make a credible run as a centrist. My suspicion is that he's perfectly willing to continue the sellout of American labor started by Clinton/Gore with their NAFTA efforts. I'm unaware of any skeletons in his closet. His weakness is that he's a first term Senator with no previous public administration experience. TTBOMK, his tort practice in North Carolina was specialized in medical malpractice, and he successfully cherry-picked his cases. He wisely avoided class action litigation against corporations, which would be a black mark that the Republicans could use to good advantage to discredit him. I see Edwards main problem in securing the nomination to be low name recognition. This is being remedied by a lot of media exposure and I expect that we'll be seeing a lot of Edwards on the talk/news analysis shows going forward. He's a perfect vessel for the Democrats, in that he's got very little negative press. Like Kennedy in 1960, he represents a fresh new face. Though, from all I've heard of Edwards public speaking so far, I find him far less glib, witty and sympatico than Jack was. It's probably largely just the times we live in, when the goal of public speech is not so much to impress the listener with erudition, wisdom and charm as it is to avoid any of the pitfalls of our pitiful political correctness puritanism. -Ray