Undeclared but eager, ex-senator debuts speech, core beliefs Three months after losing the last national election, former U.S. Sen. John Edwards effectively began his campaign for the next one Saturday night. Edwards, the Democratic vice presidential nominee last year, rolled out a new stump speech at a state Democratic Party dinner, acknowledging the critics who say the party doesn't stand for anything. The party's future, he declared, is in asserting bedrock moral principles, such as lifting Americans out of poverty, a message he will take across the country in the coming months. "What the country is looking for in its...