Thomas Oliphant: Edwards makes issue of poverty personal

Boston Globe

"CHATTING AFTER a campaign appearance the other day, John Edwards tried to get across a fairly simple point: It is not that John Kerry doesn't give two hoots about the poverty that afflicts 35 million Americans (of course he does), it is that John Edwards does and has demonstrated it in the presidential campaign.

"It's an issue of long-term dimensions that the country has to get serious about today," he said. "I thought it was important to bring it before a crowd of largely affluent students (Pomona College) because this is a cause that has to engage the next generation as well as mine..."