As if you needed more ammunition to use against Mr. Edwards, this just says it all:

The candidate -- who was then the head of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina -- chose to speak on "Poverty, the great moral issue facing America," as his $55,000 topic at UC Davis. That could cause both parents and students to note some irony here: UC Davis -- like the rest of the public University of California system -- will get hit this year by a 7 percent tuition increase that likely hits many of the kids his speeches are aimed at helping.

In 2006, the expensively-coiffed Edwards made more than $285,000 speaking to just 9 universities.