A storm of criticism has hit the Edwards camp over the presidential candidate’s lifestyle choices. Depending on whom you talk to, it’s none of our business how he spends his money or it’s every American’s business to find clues as to how he would lead the country toward a more equitable planet share. Climate change, sustainability, consumption, and environmental protection will be big in 2008. Maybe not as big as war, but right up there behind it.
Another issue is whether a Democrat who has chosen to run on a “poverty platform” has an obligation not to rub his money in the faces of the poor, as in the heated walkway between wings valued just under $200,000, which might have built four houses in New Orleans, where Edwards announced his primary campaign.
It is worth noting that every candidate can expect to be tested on “green value,” including General Clark, if he decides to run. Clark’s overall commitment to sustainability can be evaluated by reading this website, but his personal “carbon footprint” is something any Clark for President campaign is going to have to set forth, it would appear.
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