[jazusamo]

Agreed...I believe he singled out Obama and Edwards because the demagoguery they’ve both been guilty of is so blatant and anyone with half a brain should see through it, of course there are millions without half a brain.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree with your thoughts, but I’m going to have to include the cunning Mrs. in there too. It’s tough to consider what our founding fathers would think of the democrat party today that wouldn’t include some long walks and a short poop deck.

[CutePuppy]

"Pure" socialist demagoguery is unlikely to win in US an the West right now (Sarcozy easily defeated an outspoken Socialist even in France), that's why most western socialist/progressive/Labour parties now follow politics of Third Way (paying lip service to free market and private economy for a "cooperation of public and private", government and free enterprise "solutions") as was popularized and practiced by Tony Blair, among others.

In US we know it better as "triangulation", as practiced by Clintons - that's why, IMHO, Hillary Clinton is more dangerous as a candidate than "pure" populist demagogues like Obama and Edwards (either of whom also don't stand a chance due to profound lack of Commander in Chief credentials in time of war, which didn't hamper Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 because of fall of Soviet Union and "peace dividend", among many other things).