Sen. John Edwards Thursday slammed his fellow Democrat Sen. Zell Miller's speech to the Republican convention as "over the top" and "sad."
In an interview on the Fox News Channel, Edwards of North Carolina, the vice presidential running mate of Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, described Miller's Wednesday night speech endorsing President Bush as "way over the top. It was sad, actually."
Edwards said Miller's speech involved "a lot of anger, a lot of negative attacks." The "focus" of the Bush-Cheney '04 re-election campaign "is on personal attacks, smears about John Kerry," he said.
Miller is a Democrat and the senior senator from Georgia, but he has long supported the president, taking conservative positions on a wide range of issues in the Senate. He is not expected to seek re-election when his current six year term ends.
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