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Aug 03 2007 12:00am EDT

Pander Politics

Does John Edwards really have the chutzpah to ask Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to return contributions from News Corp. employees?

Leaving aside the hypocrisy, it's not clear why those contributions are more onerous than contributions from people engaged in other businesses that offend Democratic sensibilities.

Halliburton? Altria? Where's the line?

Matthew Cooper's full Capital blog post on this subject can be found here.


Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.
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