Elizabeth Edwards shows an ugly part of herself to Time

I have little time for John Kerry, as anyone who reads this blog knows. But I also have little time for petty, hypocritical attacks, and Kerry has just received one from Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Kerry's 2004 running mate, John Edwards. From Time's "10 Questions For Elizabeth Edwards":

[referring to Kerry]

I'd be telling you things that weren't true if I said that he didn't have an impediment. He did. He was certainly able to be painted as someone who didn't understand what people did with their free time or what their concerns were when they sat around the table. But I don't think that if you looked at his policies you would have found that to be a fair conclusion.

And in describing her own lifestyle:

It's a different kind of luxury, I think. I know the people whose artwork is on my walls--they're not the old masters. I shop at Target. We eat at Wendy's. Even though we have a lot and I feel very blessed, we are basically the same people we were when we first started out and made, between us, $28,000 a year.

If there's one thing I hate, it's someone with a lot of money who brags about not spending it. Or perhaps John and Elizabeth are just Philistines and like to brag about that. Either way, it was a cheap, nasty attack, and she should be ashamed.