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I can't wait for the "Edwards is a dang phony, he's rich" comments from the wingnuts, ignoring that unlike their even richer hero Georgie Porgie John Edwards earned his dough by working for it.

im concerned about all of these investments. and it always seems to be the dems who are the most shady. i almost think that more important than voting is where you put your money. and if I, who have barely any cash, can put what little retirement investments i have into socially responsible funds, then why can't they? folks like edwards would better serve this world doing that, than in oil or cayman island schemes that help them amass more wealth than they could ever use in a lifetime.

Fnarf, I don't think they will attack him simply for being rich (Cheney is very rich, and in general the GOP is very friendly to the rich). They'll attack him for making his money by being a trial lawyer, as they already have.

The "trial lawyer" attacks work on some audiences, but just plain "rich" works on others. It doesn't matter how rich the guy making it is. It's just like the "$400 haircut" -- it's all designed to undermine Edwards's real understanding of low-income people -- as if it was somehow more important what his hair says about poor people that what's in his mind. There's nothing you can do about it, but it's stupid nonetheless.

I don't think it's ever so direct as "he's rich, he doesn't understand low-income people" or "he got an expensive haircut, he's out of touch with the middle class." The latter case is more likely an attempt to feminize him than to cast him as too rich to be president.

With Kerry in 2004, the attacks weren't that he was too rich, but that the money wasn't his - it was his wife's. An attempt to emasculate him in voters' eyes.

In think the GOP treads lightly in this area - they want to do the populist appeal to lower-middle class folks, but the party also consists of and caters to the wealthy business elite. So I don't think you will hear a lot of rhetoric about Edwards being simply "too rich." It'll be something like "he's got more than enough money for beauty creams."

It appears to be criminal not to be discussing Wolfowitz, not to mention having pansy articles from the NYT and Post to deliver us the news.

bill clinton's success had much to do with the, "i could have a beer with him" mentality. the same for GWB. kerry was emasculated with the $$$ arguments, and with numerous photos/clips of him bobbling footballs or looking silly on a bicycle. not that anyone should vote based on that stuff, but many apparently do. so, edwards, get your act together and deal with that issue somehow...

RE: Lee Harvey Oswald. A few months back Rolling Stone did an article on E. Howard Hunt, former CIA/Nixon dirtywork man. Really interesting.

There's also the idiotic anti-intellectual mentality that frequently brands Democrats as too "smart" for the job. Clearly, a man who actually earned $30 million is too intelligent to run this country. We'd rather have a dummy who suckled from his father's teat his entire life.

Re: Lee Harvey Oswald. We'll never get to the truth until the generation that needs to believe in a lone gunman, is dead.