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Thanks to Steve Moore for telling me about this interview.

In his recent (5/30/07) YouTube interview, Senator John Edwards demonstrates such a lack of understanding of the fundamental nature of America and our Constitution that he should be simply disqualified to hold any political office.

Most of this interview (in YouTube window below) is quite dull and trite, but I strongly recommend that you watch the last minute or so, starting at 4:45 of the clip, where the interviewer asks Edwards a list of things and asks him which he views as rights and which as privileges.

It is truly shocking that the only item which Edwards considered a privilege rather than a right was the only item which is actually enshrined in the Constitution as a right.

And if that weren't bad enough, while Edwards thought about calling citizenship for immigrants a privilege, but just barely, if they had only worked here for a year, he then made it clear that after 5 years, US citizenship for anyone should be a right.

I would say that the socialist Edwards represents the most politically and economically ignorant wing of the Democratic Party, but given his reasonable chances of winning in Iowa, I suppose that that "wing" of the Party might actually represent its majority in many places. I truly hope (and may actually believe) that despite Americans deserved frustration with Iraq and President Bush, we are not masochistic and stupid enough to elect someone like John Edwards whose basic views can be summarized something like "I feel very guilty for my success and my country's success, and I'm certain that we must have done something terrible to have been so successful, so we must do everything we can not only to make rich people less rich, but to make our entire nation less American."