Senator Edwards’ concern for the poor would seem more heartfelt, if he wasn’t so hypocritical. Senator Edwards spends over $400.00 on his haircut. Assuming he gets a haircut every month, that is $4,800 every year just for getting his haircut. To put this in perspective to the poverty-stricken voters Edwards is targeting, a worker making minimum wage in the United States, makes about $11,900 before taxes. That is only two and a half times what he spends on haircuts within a year. All from a man who wishes to run his entire campaign on poverty in America? I would suggest a good start would be going to the local barber and getting a $15.00 haircut.

Let me first make this clear, I agree that people should spend their money as they feel fit. Yet, if you are going to complain about an issue that is so important a candidate is focusing his whole campaign on it, don’t you think he should do a little more to lessen his lavish lifestyle and help the poor with some of what he saves?

Lastly, the impression you would get from the Edwards’ is that they only care about the poor as long as they are voting for Democrats. In case you have forgotten, the Edwards family got in a fight with their next-door neighbor because he supposedly wasn't keeping his property and house up to par with their lavish standards. Mrs. Edwards called Monty Johnson’s house that has been the families since the Depression days of the 1920’s, “slummy.” Johnson is no where near being a millionaire, and has been working on the property for some years. Sadly, it just can’t compare to the $5.3 million dollar house, 28,000 square foot mansion owned by the Edwards’. The outrage started when Johnson had the audacity to share his opinion by hanging a political sign supporting Rudy Giuliani on his fence.

Senator Edwards will make you believe that low-income people in the United States are his top priority. The truth is that this former millionaire lawyer is only looking for votes in a demographic that he knows primarily votes for Democrats. Maybe this will work for Edwards, and he will see a rise in the polls against the two Senators and non-candidate. Finally, when he makes it to the White House, the poor people in this nation that voted to put him the Oval Office will realize that John Edwards only looked at them as a simple Democratic voting bloc that would hand him the key to the White House, and nothing else.