The New York Times gets huffy

Let It Start Now – New York Times

… Mr. Edwards has a strong populist message, but it sounds a bit odd coming from a former tort lawyer and hedge fund executive who ran as a completely different person in 2004.

“Tort lawyer”? Not something honorable like an M&A parasite or takeover artist, right? Something more honorable than defending people maimed by corporate negligence, no doubt. And what “completely different person” in 2004? He talked so much about poor people and the “two Americas” back then that John Kerry told him to shut up. But it’s good to hear that the Times now hates hedge-fund “executives” (Edwards was on the board of one fund). Perhaps now they’ll stop glamorizing them in their Style section.

One of his ads features an out-of-work Maytag employee who said Mr. Edwards promised his 7-year-old son: “I’m going to keep fighting for your daddy’s job.” We’re still waiting for Mr. Edwards to explain how he, or any politician, can turn back the tide of economics and globalization.

There is no such thing as an irreversible policy. Bush has been doing it for seven years to FEMA, OSHA, the FDA, the EPA….

We’d prefer if he explained how to make it work for all Americans.

No, actually, you wouldn’t. Reversing the polarization of income in this country would mean less for your core demographic. There is no free lunch, remember?

p.s. — you forgot to mention the haircuts.