Hillary reminds the sisterhood she’s their girl. That’s worth a Ms magazine cover.

Before John Edwards started talking I thought, “Whatever he says, it’s going to be insincere.” Are there YouTubes of him mill working?

I’m reminded of this from Byron:

He does a very good job of looking like a phony. The problem is not the theme of the “Two Americas” speech, which is a standard, if highly polished, recitation of the “people versus the powerful” appeal that didn’t work for Al Gore in 2000. Instead, it’s the little things that don’t sound quite right. There is, for example, the story about the house in the mill village. Edwards tells South Carolina audiences that he’s one of them, and knows what it’s like to come from humble beginnings. “I was born in South Carolina,” he says. “My parents brought me home to a mill village. My father worked in a mill all his life. I will never forget where I came from.” In case anyone misses the point, at most appearances, the sound system blares out John Mellencamp’s “Small Town,” with its lyrics, “I cannot forget where it is that I come from . . .” But the story is slightly more complicated than that. After his birth, Edwards’s parents did indeed bring him home to a mill village; in TV and print ads, the campaign has often used pictures of the tiny house where the family lived. But the ads don’t mention that Edwards lived in the house from the time of his birth until he was . . . one year old. By then, his father had been promoted at the mill and the family moved to a much nicer home. That house does not appear in Edwards’s commercials. That doesn’t mean the family was well off, or that Edwards is a liar, just that his life was not quite as humble as he sometimes suggests. Edwards obviously was not born to privilege, and he became a successful multimillionaire lawyer by his own talent and work, and yet for some reason he still feels the need to embellish the story a bit.