Reply #38: My statement about his values

[Radical Activist]

relates to his Senate record. The fact that Edwards got rich suing corporations instead of working for them like most lawyers do is admirable. But I do have a little more respect for the fact that Obama spent his early life knocking on doors in the public housing projects of Chicago to help organize poor communities. It means he got his hands dirty and experienced the problems of the poor first hand in a way that you can't in a court room or University policy center.

Edwards doesn't have a terrible record. My biggest problems are with the war and his poor environmental record. But there's no doubt that what he's saying today is more progressive than what he proposed as a Senator. Don't you agree?