JOHN EDWARDS: WALKING PROOF THERE IS ONE AMERICA AND ONLY ONE AMERICA

Maybe somebody can explain this to me.

John Edwards says that there are "two Americas," one rich and one poor, and that he should be elected President to take away from the rich and give it to the poor.

Today, under George W. Bush, there are two Americas, not one: One America that does the work, another that reaps the reward. One America that pays the taxes, another America that gets the tax breaks. One America - middle-class America - whose needs Washington has long forgotten, another America - narrow-interest America - whose every wish is Washington's command. One America that is struggling to get by, another America that can buy anything it wants, even a Congress and a president.

At the same time, he portrays himself as the son of a mill worker, the first in his lineage ever to attend college, who earned 150 million dollars and now lives in the biggest house in his county.

My father, he worked in a mill all his life, and I still remember vividly the men and women who worked in that mill with him. I can see them. Some of them had lint in their hair; some of them had grease on their faces. They worked hard, and they tried to put a little money away so that their kids and their grand-kids could have a better life.

Doesn't his life story prove that there is only one America, and that opportunity and success beckon those with talent, grit, and luck?

In the courtroom, he used to "channel" distressed fetuses; who's he channeling now? Karl Marx or Fidel Castro?