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Friday, April 6, 2007 12:00 AM

John Edwards live

Whatever the outcome of his presidential campaign, this time around Edwards won't regret being an overly cautious candidate.

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  • Friday, April 6, 2007 07:21 AM

    Of late I've become impressed

    with Edwards as being honestly up-front. He doesn't dissemble. On CNN I watched him reapond to a question about the recently passed emergency funding bills. Without hesitation he directly led out out, saying that Bush "is dead wrong." He didn't back into a response or try to side-step what was a carefully loaded question.

    In today's NYT there is a story of yet another unfolding scandal in the Bush administration about student loans.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/education/06loans.html?th&emc=th

    Edwards's comment is telling: "We need to fix the student loan program to take the banks - which are just an expensive middleman - out of the process."

    This is not a man who intends to sell off Social Security to Wall Street or let the Pharma/insurance lobby highjacking of Medicare continue.

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