Jim Clyburn: “I was asked the other day by a friend why was it that I thought that John Edwards was so optimistic about the future of…”

“I was asked the other day by a friend why was it that I thought that John Edwards was so optimistic about the future of this country when all the headlines around us seem to indicate something else. I said to him John Edwards was born in a little town not far from the town where I was born, Sumter. I was born in Sumter. He was born in Seneca. Geographically it is somewhat of a distance apart, but he was born and reared in a value system that I am very familiar with.”