John Edwards was the best candidate in the democratic party. He lost because of the media.

I can see you're trying to make yourself important by stating you know so much about the democratic party. However, none of your arguments hold water. Actually, I was attempting to establish creditability. My argument was broken down into the two possible ways of classifying the strength of a candidate. One is actual performance in the race, the other is actual ability to be the best possible president. Your argument had two points, the first that he was the best candidate, and the second that the media was to blame for his failures during the election. He himself dropped out fairly swiftly, in spite of promises not to do so. So obviously, in the first classification, he was not the best candidate. This isn't a rhetorical argument, it's a fact. It is one validation as to why he was not a good candidate. I did say Senator Biden was the best possible president out of all of the Democratic Nominees. I was giving you an opportunity to attack why you felt John Edwards was better than Biden. You chose not to do so because I didn't support Biden, which I was planning on doing in round two that I am currently writing. I was also planning on further criticizing John Edwards. Your cause for accusing me of hypocrisy comes after I explained two ways of measuring the "best candidate." I specifically stated that the best possible president of the nominees was Joe Biden. You are also debating the person who is directly responsible for 9% of Joe Biden's total statewide support after only being on his campaign for less than 3 weeks and there was almost zero support for him when I got their just before Christmas. If you'd like, I can expand further into why various campaigns met with successes and failures. I'm very good at knowing things I'm not supposed to. You might be referring to his 1988 campaign where he dropped out for numerous reasons, including a very excusable instance of accidently not crediting a source he had credited dozens of times before. In 1988, he was also chair of the Judiciary committee, and was distracted from campaigning by his efforts to keep Judge Bork from becoming a supreme court justice, which would have gravely undermined the 9th amendment. If he had stayed in the race, it is also likely that when he suffered his massive aneurism, he may not have been near medical facilities and might not be among the living. Before I speak to the virtues of Senator Biden, I need to attack the pretensions of John Edwards. What he did as a Senator of the United States of America does not reflect his claims as a candidate for President. As a freshman Senator, there was little he could have achieved by himself, and he never really learned how to function within the federal government. This is why he doesn't understand his Universal Health Care plan will never pass the Senate with the 60 vote majority that it would require. It is very unlikely that Senator Obama's, or Senator Clinton's will either, unless somehow the Democrats pick up ten Senate seats in addition to the fifty they already possess during this session. As a Senator you have influence on national policies, and he could have drafted and introduced and built consensus for a Universal Health Plan and then worked to get it enacted into law. He chose not to do this when he had the opportunity. Senator Edwards, the "champion of the middle class", is the same John Edwards that took on a lawsuit against the American Red Cross three times. That certainly is fighting major corporations. And the pool filter cover? The manufacturer got sued because the pool staff hadn't appropriately maintained it. As a trial lawyer, John Edwards took a third of the reward that others received for their pain and suffering without pain and suffering, except for when his own son died, and even then he used the story in the courtroom to win a trial. This story also reappeared as a part of his stump speech quiet frequently. He capitalized on his son's death. You should define "Special interest group," because they're more than just "Big Tobacco." Unions, like the UAW or the Teamsters are also special interest groups. For eleven months I worked for a nonpartisan nonprofit which issue based, and also a special interest group. This wouldn't be much of a big deal, except that John Edwards saught the endorsement of these organizations, and when it was received, he was more than happy to have them mail out literature, and make phone calls, and direct advertisement on his behalf. But, I suppose its okay so long as you don't take money from the Teamsters' PAC. "Always" is an interesting word. Like I said, when he "fought corporations" in the court room, he took a third of the winnings away from the battle. So unbelievably selfless. And now that he's a multimillionaire, he wants to be a campion of the middle class. So, he set up a nonpartisan nonprofit group that allows him to write off a majority of what he owes the nation in taxes. And while he often claims to be the "son of a mill worker", his father was management at the mill, which is a step up from what he depicts. He'll tell stories about how his father taught him the value of honest work, and how where he grew up there was no distinction made between people based off of the work they did, or the money they got paid, yet a few minutes later he'd say "I'm the son of a mill worker. I came from dirt." So, apparently being working class is tantamount to being dirt? Right. This is the same guy who used to say things like, "I'm not worried about my kids. My kids are set for life. I'm worried about your kids." Then, there are some examples of his dishonesty. For starters, he frequently told me he was going to stop by the bar I own sometime, yet it never happened. More significantly, his campaign signed a pledge stating that none of their employees living in Iowa for the sole purpose of working for Edwards would caucus, yet their campaign constructed all of them to caucus. John Edwards started the "One America Committee." It's a political front. He would use this One America Committee to travel to Iowa during the 2006 campaign year, along with a staff, to give speeches on behalf of candidates for congress, and state representatives, and state senators, in an effort to build a stronger organization for his 2008 campaign. But, most candidates do this. So, to build my case for Joe Biden. Joe Biden's been in the Senate for 35 years, and he and his wife still make less than 300,000 dollars a year. This amount includes his wife's salary that she receives as an education professor at a community college, and what Senator Biden gets paid for teaching a weekend class on Constitutional Law at the University of Delaware. This makes him actually a member of the Middle Class, unlike Edwards. Senator Biden had a habit of quoting his grandfather, "I don't want the government to solve all of my problems, I want the government to understand my problems." How can a multimillionaire who thinks his kids are set for life honestly understand a middle class family? Joe Biden also came from a middle class back ground, but he didn't need it for the center piece of his campaign. While Edwards dwelled on his childhood, trying to ignore stories about how he sued the Red Cross, or about how when someone else's daughter gets disemboweled, he got paid several million dollars. While Edwards told stories about how his father would have to leave restaurants because he couldn't afford the prices, Senator Biden actually thanked his father for the multiple jobs and the hard work, and didn't tell sob stories. Biden doesn't resent his youth, and that might be why he's still making less than a million dollars a year In the next round, I'll expand on Biden's foreign policy and domestic polices. 8,000 characters – just not enough. I'll also explain why the media isn't to blame for Edwards' loss.