Sen. John Edwards (D-NC): "I'm a man of the people"

Q: What kind of people you may ask?
A: The growing contingent of personal injury attorneys gracing billboards across the sunbelt!

Yeah!, this is the kind of leader we need! Someone who regularly assaults the principle of personal responsibility - for a living. I cannot wait to hear his remedy for our broken health-care system. Medical students will be leaving Duke, Bowman-Gray, and Carolina in droves! If Bush is lucky, he'll be debating this tarheel in Sept. '04. If I could only hear this retort in such a debate: "Frankly John, you and your fellow personal injury attorneys have enriched yourselves indirectly from the higher insurance premiums we all have to pay, and are part of the problem with the health care system today, not the solution".

If indeed these two were to match up for the '04 election, it really would be about the money - no matter what is said. One can only wonder where Mr. Edwards stands on restriction of jury awards.