Poor Edwards

Ya know, once you are worth between $12 and $30 million, one would think these kinds of claims would lose their cache:

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards planned to hit the airwaves Wednesday with his first round of television commercials in Iowa and New Hampshire.

[...]

"My grandmother came from a family of sharecroppers," Edwards says in one ad. "My father worked in a cotton mill all his life, and I helped out in the summers."

The spots also make the point that "George
Bush, he comes from a very different place."

This reminds me of this oldie but goodie.

And for what it's worth: my maternal grandparents were both born into poverty, and my paternal ones come from working class families. Does my blog now have more moral authority?

Source: Edwards to push campaign ads in 2 states