Showing a picture of Edwards speaking at Cooper Union where he gave a substanitive speech on problems facing the middle class and poor and how government can help enforce standards and protect its citizens from abuses such as predatory lending, but then not commenting on the substance of the speech in the entire article is bizarre. Instead the author takes a story already reported and implies that Edwards has no business talking about these issues because he spent 1.3 million of money from his policy institute to tour the country talking about poverty. Obsession with non-scandals such as Whitewater and now this is becoming the NYTimes stock and trade while they tout fictitious stories such as WMD's in Iraq that led us into a disastrous war. What goes on here at the once venerable Times?