It was hard not to be impressed listening to John Edwards’s “second-place victory” speech.  It was a good rendition of his war on insurers, bankers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and fatcat CEOs, mixed with a lot of stuff about change,  a torch passed, a new generation, standing upon the shoulders of those who came before us, etc.  While it hasn’t lit the country on fire, his corporate greed message is clearly more powerful than his more analytical “Two Americas” speech of four years ago. He goes to New Hampshire against Obama’s, Hillary’s, and Romney’s $100 million campaigns.  That’s not the worst possible place to be.