This story is via Ed Cone.

Judging from John Edwards’ habitual approach to the issue, he wants only for Obama to make a show for the cameras of “caring” about poverty, nothing more. After all, the man has a revealed preference for empty talk about poverty, not any action to understand freedom’s effects in fighting poverty better than any quixotic or self-defeating government policy.

Make no mistake; Obama is quite able to produce to John Edwards‘ satisfaction, both being flush with the age-old delusion that the state can solve poverty without addressing how wealth is produced or, especially in America, what makes some people not productive and government’s role in exacerbating that.