No. 2 Is Making His Contribution by Talking Up the No. 1

[Rose Siding]

LOS ANGELES, July 17 - As John Kerry has sought to reintroduce himself to America in the days before the Democratic National Convention, he has found a powerful new pitchman: Senator John Edwards, his vice-presidential running mate.

From the Statehouse in Des Moines to an ornate ballroom in Chicago to a modest front porch in New Orleans to a gathering of Hispanics here, Mr. Edwards has been talking up Senator Kerry this week like a used-car salesman urging his customers to look past the dents. While vice-presidential candidates have traditionally been assigned to tear down the opposition, Mr. Edwards, in a kind of role reversal, has been deployed to build Mr. Kerry up.

http://nytimes.com/2004/07/18/politics/campaign/18edwards.html

byline is SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, pillar of objective journalism

[MasonJar]

1. They do not have to tear down Bush; he has done that work for

them

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Bush is doing enough tear down for a dozen campaigns

I don't remember a tone to a campaign as nasty as chimps since perhaps father of chimp, and the campaign hasn't even started yet!

[REVOLT823]

3. I have not seen any negative campaigning on behalf of

Kerry/Edwards yet, and hope they keep it that way. It makes Bushco look that much more nasty and is completely unnecessary, since, as mentioned above, Bush is cutting his own throat just fine

[Aunt Anti-bush]

4. He is doing a great job talking Kerry up.

He's giving me a lot of hope and enthusiasm. That's what we need now more than ever.