Cheney-Edwards contrasts couldn't be greater

[Kooperman]

The Hatchet Man vs. The Barrister

By Tom Curry

National affairs writer MSNBC

Updated: 1:26 p.m. ET July 06, 2004

WASHINGTON - Even before Sen. John Kerry announced that Sen. John Edwards would be his running mate, Democrats were savoring what they expect will be a highlight of this fall’s campaign: when Edwards turns his trial lawyer’s cross-examination skills on Vice President Dick Cheney and the Iraq contracts of Halliburton, the firm Cheney once headed.

The Edwards-Cheney battle is a keen-edged contrast of age (Edwards is 12 years younger than Cheney) and experience (Cheney was serving as President Gerald Ford’s chief of staff when Edwards was a freshman in law school). Not to mention personalities: Cheney’s phlegmatic stump-speaking style amounts at times to almost a radical form of anti-campaigning, a polar opposite from Edwards’s relentlessly peppy populism.

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[DudeAsInCool]

There really isnt much of a match here. A smart populist versus a stone cold bastard