In this American Spectator piece, New York Sun columnist William Tucker relates to his past interview with famed Houston plaintiffs’ attorney John O’Quinn in interpreting fellow trial lawyer and Democratic Party vice-presidential candidate John Edwards‘ world view:

When it came to defining his core vision, here’s what Edwards said:

“Tonight, as we celebrate in this hall, somewhere in America, a mother sits at the kitchen table. She can’t sleep because she’s worried she can’t pay her bills. She’s working hard trying to pay her rent, trying to feed her kids, but she just can’t catch up.
It didn’t use to be that way in her house. Her husband was called up in the Guard. Now he’s been in Iraq for over a year. They thought he was going to come home last month, but now he’s got to stay longer.
She thinks she’s alone. But tonight in this hall and in your homes, you know what? She’s got a lot of friends.
We want her to know that we hear her…
So, when you return home some night, you might pass a mother on her way to work the late shift, you tell her: Hope is on the way.”

Let’s look at what’s going on here. First and foremost, we’ve got a lonely woman. There’s a passing reference to Iraq and her husband, but that’s basically to get him out of the house and out of the picture. (Remember, these are the same people who brought you the welfare system, also designed to get men out of the house and out of the picture.)
She has no friends, no relatives, no religion, no community, nothing to rely on. Her husband? Well, he doesn’t even seem to write anymore. And so she sits by herself at the kitchen table, waiting for someone to come along.
What a beautiful vision of America — a nation of lonely, isolated women, in dire need of help, abandoned by everyone, waiting for some handsome trial lawyer to come knocking on their door.
Hope is on the way.

Read the entire piece. Hat tip to Michael over at Southern Appeal for the link.