That Edwards guy comes in handy

It's not just his glib speaking style, thumb sucking kids, and his nice hair! John Edwards is helping John Kerry in useful ways. This is part of an interview with the New York Times, where Kerry is responding to a question about how he would keep America safer than the Bush Administration:

JOHN KERRY: ... Third, we have a set of other global issues that are available to us to help bring countries, to sort of build up the well of good will, if you will, so that when you need a vote at to the UN, or you're trying to get people to cooperate, there's more of a relationship to build on, and I'm talking about North Korea, AIDS, Africa, African development, global warming, loose nuclear materials in Russia, there are a series of involvements in Latin America, there are all kinds of things, that if we had a more proactive, sensitive, thoughtful, strategic, engaged foreign policy, we will strengthen our ability to wage the war on terror. Third

EDWARDS: Fourth. You already did third.

KERRY: That's why he's good.

Let's add to John Edwards list of things he brings to the Democratic ticket - the ability to count to four.