Jesse Jackson for example doesn’t believe in race equality or anything else he says. Nor do most propagandists, except the true believer propagandists, even though it is debatable whether a propagandist that believes in their own propaganda is really a propagandist.

If Edwards simply said that only poor people, unlike him, should do so and so, and Edwards himself didn’t do what he recommended, then Edwards wouldn’t be a hypocrite. However, if Edwards recommended that people do X and Y because X and Y should be done by everyone since it benefits everyone, and doesn’t himself do such things, then he obviously doesn’t believe that his lies apply to himself.

Maybe he made a mistake. That is possible. Unlikely, but possible. However, whatever mistakes Edwards and his people make, it is going to be their responsibility to explain, not ours.

Because he doesn’t believe in the things that he say he believes in.

I’ve heard that world view expressed many times before, mostly by aristocrat wannabees and mostly in Europe. Not in America, though. I would like to think that real Americans will never ever accept assessing rights and privileges according to political, educational or economic class as the natural order of things.

Edwards, however, fits the mold for a Democrat. Leaders are typically richer and more educated than the masses who vote for them. Republicans tend to vote for their equals (as far as money and power are concerned, not human worth). So Edwards concern for the poor is not necessarily hypocritical. Yes, he lives a privileged life. So did the Kennedys and the Clintons. Lawyers tend to make enough money to live above the poverty level (as do many non-lawyers). A candidate shouldn’t have to give up his life to run for office on any platform. That’s not in the requirements. But you know all of this. So why is Edwards a hypocrite?