Edwards describes Bush as out of touch

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BY MICHAEL GARTLAND
Of The Post and Courier Staff (Charleston, SC)

In a four-stop tour of the Lowcountry, Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Edwards argued Saturday for health care reform and cast President Bush as out of touch with Americans' core values.

"The pharmaceutical industry has an absolute stranglehold on Washington," Edwards said before an audience of about 40 at the Master Chef restaurant in North Charleston. "There are more lobbyists for these industries than live in my hometown."

"In the world he comes from, wealth is inherited, not earned," said Edwards to the mostly black audience. "He honors and respects one thing: wealth. And he wants to make sure that whoever has it, keeps it."

His tour, which also included stops at St. Helena Island, Walterboro, and Summerville, came six months before South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary next February, the first primary in the South.

Edwards also focused his attack on Bush's tax cuts, which he described as more beneficial to the rich than to anyone else. He later emphasized that he would support tax cuts that would benefit working people.

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Edwards is pushing his populist themes very nicely. And his numbers are moving up in SC - as has already been posted in this forum. Here we go!