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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (493416)	11/16/2003 1:14:36 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

Whether Mr. Edwards's legal career helps him or haunts him in his bid for the presidency depends on who is being asked. But it never goes without mention. In a field of candidates that includes a doctor and a general, Mr. Edwards, who has served less than one term representing North Carolina in the Senate, has made use of his credentials as a trial lawyer to shore up his outsider status. He has also tried to convince any doubters that, as he put it at a town hall meeting last week in Portsmouth, N.H., he has "the toughness inside to take this case to President Bush in the toughest possible way." "Sometimes people are fooled by me," he told a voter at the Portsmouth town hall. "They see this Southern demeanor and say, `Oh, he's a nice guy.' " He added: "Just remember before I went to the Senate I spent almost 20 years in courtrooms where it was me on one side and an army of lawyers usually on the other side representing big corporate America, representing big insurance companies, and I won most of those fights. I won the vast majority of them. You don't win those fights by being a nice guy. There's nothing nice about that." On Campaign Trail, Edwards Defends Lawyer Role By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD Published: November 16, 2003