Crowd of 5,000 welcomes Edwards home

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CHAPEL HILL -- With a frenzy of cheers, hollers and signs, a crowd of 5,000 welcomed presidential candidate John Edwards home Saturday afternoon.

Edwards hosted a homecoming rally in Southern Village, within view of his newly opened campaign headquarters. He talked about the war in Iraq, global warming and social change, urging the crowd to take action now.

"This is the kind of momentum and campaign America needs," he said. "Lord knows there's a lot at stake. Lord knows we need change in the worst kind of way."

Edwards declared his candidacy in the 2008 election Thursday, in the back yard of a victim of Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward. A former trial lawyer, Edwards was the Democratic 2004 vice presidential nominee on a failed ticket with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. Edwards had earlier dropped his own 2004 presidential bid.

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