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Politics : John EDWARDS for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (534)	2/23/2004 9:08:51 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1381

Edwards' record "During his campaign for the Democratic nomination, Sen. John Edwards has been a trial lawyer arguing for his client's cause as he did in private practice for 20 years," Kate O'Beirne writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com). "The stump speech that we're told wows audiences is the senator's summation on behalf of his present client — his candidacy. As I have previously noted, John Edwards is now passionately railing against the unconscionable divide between the rich and poor Americas. The reason he seems more advocate-for-hire than committed activist for the poor is that he kept his current burning desire to redress this gross inequality in check when he could have been launching his own version of a war on poverty," Mrs. O'Beirne said. "Sen. Edwards was elected in 1998. By my count, during his first four years in the Senate, he introduced a single bill aimed at alleviating material poverty. Apparently unmoved by the plight of the urban poor, in 2000, and again in 2002, Edwards introduced a bill to promote the development of affordable rental housing in rural areas. That's it. And, the emotional exhortations on behalf the poor that are his standard fare on the campaign trail must represent a wholly new John Edwards to his Senate colleagues. While pet causes are typically the stuff of Senate speeches, Sen. Edwards appears to have kept his current obsession to himself."