Class Warfare Wimps

On the first day of 2008, Rich Lowry, apostle of privilege, graduate of the University of Virginia, conservative snark, dismissed John Edwards, son of a textile mill worker, as a hater.  Rich Lowry, without addressing the possibility that corporate ownership of the Republican party and the executive and judicial branches of the Federal government might be somewhat unfair to those Americans who work for a living, looks down his patrician nose at Edwards' "down-home Manichaean vision" and finds it - - - almost - - - hateful.

I did not attend the University of Virginia and and learn words that had e, a, and e in consecutive order, so I have to stop here and look up "Manicheaen."  Wow!  The condescending Rich Lowry seems to be accusing Mr. Edwards of seeing the universe as a struggle between good and evil.  A glance at the titles of a few recent Rich Lowry articles and one book leaves me wondering if Mr. Lowry has a sophisticated upscale Manicheaen vision or is just a hypocrite.  His book, Legacy:  Paying the Price for the Clinton Years, seems to see the Clintons as of the forces of darkness and those who oppose them--Ken Starr, Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde--as knights of purity.  If being cold and calculating is "evil" in Mr. Lowry's world, there is Hillary Clinton.  In his review of the Obama presidential aspirations, Mr, Lowry finds Obama dangerously  "Messianic" and Hillary Clinton -  -  - evil.  To be fair, Rich Lowry doesn't like the Huckster much, either.  Too naive!

How dare the son of a man who earned an hourly wage point out that drug companies have too much influence in Washington, D. C., that banks were business getting Congress to protect them from us while they were busy fleecing us, that our children and grandchildren will pay for the no-bid contracts Halliburton and KBR got from the politicians in their pockets.  Surely anyone who would call attention to such things is a "class warrior."