In his latest campaign, John Edwards has taken promising steps in an effort to burnish his credentials as an "economic populist" - as the New York Times put it - from his opening announcement in New Orleans' devastated 9th Ward to his regular visits to picket lines to his timetable for pulling our troops out of Iraq.
But his disappointing and shortsighted healthcare proposal shows he still has a long ways to go.
It's hard to open a newspaper...
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