<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0ed0714d-10d4-4de1-af03-fc16de3c37c5/C6A3B3F3-E3AC-450B-949C-955779997F95/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=07&year=2007&base_name=post_4301" href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=07&year=2007&base_name=post_4301" style="font-size: 11px;">www.prospect.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=07&year=2007&base_name=post_4301"><P><STRONG>RE: EDWARDS AND POVERTY.</STRONG> I find disagreeing with <STRONG>Mark Schmitt</STRONG> about matters of social policy to be almost absurdly discomfiting, but his <A href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=07&year=2007&base_name=post_4299">post</A> on<STRONG> John Edwards</STRONG> and poverty genuinely surprised me. Mark has <EM>got</EM> to be the first liberal in years who wants to restore race's primacy in the political discussion over poverty. I thought severing that linkage was 60 percent of the justification for welfare reform! Indeed, the most interesting part of Edwards is his ability to universalize the rhetoric of poverty into a story that includes, and even features, the white working class, while still upholding policies of broad applicability. This is a guy, after all, who just <A href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=07&year=2007&base_name=post_4276#017262">offered up a white paper</A> on racially integrating the nation's schools.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C6A3B3F3-E3AC-450B-949C-955779997F95/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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