Tuesday, July 06, 2004

The "Anti-Cheney"



Juan Cole makes an excellent point about how Edwards' background strengthens his hand that I'd overlooked myself...
One thing that hadn't been clear to me before was Edwards' antipathy to Halliburton and his critique of "unbid contracts." Edwards as a trial lawyer who helped consumers get their due from rich corporations that had harmed them would be ideally placed to take on the whole issue of Halliburton and the ways in which the Bush administration has mishandled Iraq by funneling huge amounts of money into expensive contracts that did not even employ many Iraqis. That is to say, Edwards may be the Anti-Cheney in ways that could be important to the campaign.
He has more, too, all of which makes a good day seem even better.

That Kerry sure can pick 'em.

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