Is Edwards Going With Public Financing a Ploy to Attack Hillary

It appears so from a conference call.

Campaign manager Jonathan Prince that said that Edwards "made a decision that he did not want to advocate for ending the problem of the corruption in our political financing" without taking meaningful action himself — that is, opting into the public system in order to prove his dedication to public financing.

When the subject of campaign finance and lobbiests came up int he debates, Hillary was an enthusiastic defender of the status quo, and this is a laying the groundwork to do this.

Let me be clear: I believe that this strategy is stupid, it appears to have sprung from the mind of Joe Trippi, but it is not insanely stupid.