Edwards: Wealth doesn't hurt credibility
Because let's face it--anyone who runs for President is already independently wealthy. Poor people do not run for President. So it's not wealth that hurts any candidate's credibility--it's hypocrisy.
It's acting as though you are something you're not. It's exploiting a real sense of class envy among the poor by pretending you yourself are not to be envied. It's blabbering to union workers about your po' sonofamillworker background, when your father was in fact part of management, not labor. It's talking about Two Americas whilst being firmly ensconced in the one that doesn't have to worry about anything except finding another ambulance to chase.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at May 7, 2007 03:42 PM