As pointed out by Matthew Yglesias.
"There's no way a guy with 5-plus years experience in the U.S. Senate (some of it on the intelligence committee) can be too inexperienced to be vice president while a guy who spent the exact same amount of time holding the surprisingly powerless job of governor of Texas was ready to be president.
There's another slightly indelicate point to be made here. On the trail, Edwards normally deploys his biography to establish his working-class cred. But the story of how the son of a poor millworker went to college, then to law school, then became a millionaire also indicates that, political experience aside, Edwards is a smart and successful guy. Bush, by contrast, spent his entire pre-political life loafing around, coasting on family connections, and essentially failing at everything he tried to do. Edwards, in other words, is someone equipped to actually learn from experience instead of just racking up points on his resume."
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