This is from the same guy who embraced the phrase "centrist Democrat" when he was running for the North Carolina senate seat. I also don't recall John Edwards scalding reporters for referring to him as a "centrist" when he was running for president in 2004. For that matter, his aides pushed Edwards' southern centrist roots as a major reason John Kerry should put him on the ticket. Now, he's running around Iowa repudiating centrists and his Iraq War vote and sticking it to Joe Lieberman. Classy. From Saturday's Des Moines Register:
Former Sen. John Edwards, in Iowa Friday, railed against moderate Democrats and declined to endorse his former colleague Joseph Lieberman, the Senate's leading Democratic proponent of the Iraq war. Edwards' tone during a congressional fundraiser in Cedar Rapids was more evidence of the North Carolina Democrat's effort to project himself as an anti-war populist, after himself voting for the resolution that authorized President Bush's use of force in Iraq. "I don't believe in a party that's trying to navigate its way to the political center and to see how careful we can be," the 2004 vice presidential nominee told a cheering crowd of 80 party activists at a downtown cafe.