Edwards has shown genuine leadership when it comes to tackling the problem of poverty all over the world.  He has stepped up to the plate and lead where politicians for decades have just turned their backs.

On the war, for starters, NO DEMOCRAT would start a preemptive war.  Period.  Edwards has shown leadership on the war too, being the first presidential candidate to apologize for voting for the war, and now leading the fight to escalate the war, being on of the first to hitch the word 'escalation' to the "surge" and also coining the phrase "the McCain Doctrine".

To say the "authored" the Patriot Act is just false.

I think you and your bar buddies didn't like Edwards performance because you are Clarkies, but, as I pointed out before, a majority of people disagreed with you.