I scoffed at Edwards’s “two Americas” riff when he was peddling it in New Hampshire, because its notion that there’s the toffs in their mansions and the great unwashed in their Dickensian workhouses and ne’er the twain shall meet seemed complete bunk.
On reflection, I now see there might indeed be something to the idea of a remote privileged class hermetically sealed off from the masses. Unfortunately, John Kerry seems to be the best living exemplar of it. . . .
The tonal disconnect is only going to get worse between now and November.
I disagree. All that Kerry needs to do to stay in the race is to offer straight, credible talk on the war. More on that here.