Are you struggling financially? Can’t seem to move up the socioeconomic ladder? It’s all because certain wealthy people and powerful corporations are doing bad things to you - - according to candidate Edwards. And when Edwards becomes President, he’s going to “get even” with those bad people, and take things away from them and give them back to the rightful owner - - you.

But the politics of envy only goes so far. It’s one thing to preach to the fearful and the risk-adverse on the campaign trail, and to demonize corporations and private business owners on the way to the White House. It is yet another thing to actually be President, and to oversee the world’s largest economy that is wholesale reliant upon the willingness of entrepreneurs to take risks, and upon corporations that employee people.

President Edwards would thus likely find it difficult to deploy his redistributionist economic plans to the extent that he intends to, and would instead be faced with the need to implement economic policies that actually help sustain the private sector economy. Such policies would again likely disappoint many of the voters he is garnering during this present campaign cycle, and would again likely raise doubts about his credibility.

The sad irony of Mr. Edwards’ class warfare politics is that he himself is a part of the very sector of society he rages against - - the wealthy. He rightly argues that it is no sin to be wealthy, but at times there seems to be a disconnect between his personal reality, and that of the people he purports to serve.

He’ll lecture on a college campus about the immorality of tuition hikes, then bill the university $30,000 or more for his speech. And as much as he preaches about the evils of the healthcare industry today, before he was a politician he unearthed millions of dollars from that same industry as a lawyer, and amassed a multi-million dollar fortune for somebody special - - himself.

Should there actually be a President John Edwards in our future, it will make for an interesting intersection between enflamed campaign rhetoric, and presidential reality.