The News & Observer focuses today on John Edwards’ new Chapel Hill campus (two days after Carolina Journal covered the story).
The following passage drew my attention:
It is not unusual for presidential candidates to be men of wealth — Franklin Roosevelt to John Kerry to George W. Bush. Edwards’ wife, Elizabeth, noted that Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is rich, has been a major supporter of raising the minimum wage.
“I think it is a greater testimony to Teddy, Sen. Kennedy, that he has taken on that cause that doesn’t have an effect on his life,” she said in a telephone interview Friday.
Mrs. Edwards must not have thought about the fact that Sen. Kennedy focuses on the minimum wage because that cause doesn’t have an effect on his life. He’ll be rich whether the minimum wage is $2 or $10 per hour.
If he (or Edwards’ husband) were a small business owner — or a low-skilled worker priced out of the job market by an artificial minimum wage — he might approach the topic from a different perspective.
