Interesting viewpoint, freightdawg. You may be right.

Regarding Edwards' credibility as someone who cares about "the little guy", however....that has nothing necessarily to do with whether he's a self-made millionaire or what class he was born into or anything like that. Key leaders of populist causes and populist revolutions in the past have often come from the more privileged classes, even from the nobility and the royalty, partly because the sons and daughters of the wealthy often have a lot more time and inclination to investigate radical social theories when they're growing up than the sons and daughters of the poor do...who are busy just surviving.

A rich person can become a progressive social radical...he just has to decide to at a certain point.

Still, as I say, you raise some interesting questions about Edwards' viability as a candidate.