We know why: It's because he talks about class issues, the only issues that truly matter, and the elite can't have that. Obama and Clinton suck up a lot of money and oxygen, but neither can be elected nationally, so they are no threat.
Not so Edwards. Edwards is running a campaign that is almost identical to the one Robert F. Kennedy ran in 1968 before being assassinated. Kennedy ran on an anti-war platform, and he also addressed class issues. It has been decades since that time, and until Edwards nobody else even TALKED about the class war waged by the very rich against everyone else.
And no, Edwards is not a hypocrite. He's actually walked the walk even more than RFK did.
I liked this part:
It’s not for nothing that Edwards is losing to Hillary-Obama in both the big donor dollar race and in the race for name recognition and favorable attention in dominant media. He’s speaking the languages of labor, the New Deal and the (stillborn) War on Poverty to a noteworthy extent in a time when the labor movement and the notion of positive government action for egalitarian and anti-poverty ends have been officially proclaimed dead and over (drowned in the icy individualist waters of neoliberal calculation) and in a period when the issues of inequality and economic insecurity resonate with a considerable and growing section of the ever more class-fractured citizenry.
The other thing is that Edwards is a threat to win. Though you would hardly know it from dominant media coverage, he currently leads the polls in pivotal Iowa, where grassroots organization, the caucus system, a historically independent electorate and his earlier positive history there – he finished a strong second to Kerry in Iowa in 2004, picking up steam at the end with his powerful “two Americas” theme – are working to his benefit. Even with his comparative media and campaign finance challenges, he’s a real threat to post early victories in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. Triumphs in these states would boost his national profile and raise the possibility that his dangerous (to corporate ideological gate-keepers) “class warfare” (the FOX News take on his “two Americas” theme) theme would catch hold with an in fact remarkably and increasingly class-polarized electorate. At the same time, since he enjoys lower negative poll ratings than the other two top-tier Democrats, Edwards fares better than Hillary Clinton and Obama when matched up against likely 2008 Republican presidential opponents in opinion surveys (Rasmussen Reports 2007).
We can't have a real Democrat win, can we?
