Reply #23: Very sorry for your loss, [View All]

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CL.

Not a Dean supporter, but he did move into my second choice slot. Here's my troubles with Edwards-

He's a lawyer. That's a biggie because that AND his votes for IWR and the Patriot Act combined make him unpalatable for me.

There's this awareness in the back of my mind about what it takes to be a good lawyer and a good politician. In some ways the needs for being good at both are the same. The ability to take facts and turn them so the darker side of them isn't obvious to your audience, if that's to your advantage and also to do the opposite if it's to your advantage. The more I watch John Edwards, the more I get the sense that this is precisely what he's doing. It's manipulation and it doesn't sit well with me at all after 4 years of lying.