Edwards Closes On "Grown Up," Rural Strength

Ok, he's no longer the youngest guy in the bunch, but who'd have ever thought John Edwards would close his South Carolina campaign with the argument that he's the adult in the race?

(I am aware of the irony of the "adult" candidate broadcasting the harshest negative attacks from Monday's debate... as an attempt to show that it wasn't Edwards who said CLINTON IS A WAL-MART LACKEY and it wasn't Edwards who said OBAMA IS TIED TO REZKO. By the way: did John Edwards mention that he wasn't the one who called Clinton a WAL-MART lackey and Obama a SLUM-LORD CODDLER?)

SENATOR OBAMA: While I was working on those streets, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board of Wal-Mart.

SENATOR CLINTON: I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner-city Chicago.

EDWARDS: This kind of squabbling - how many children is this gonna get health care? How many people are gonna get an education from this? This is not about us personally. It is about what we are trying to do for this country.

I'm John Edwards and I approve this message.