Which presidential candidate has the most genuine interest and concern for socioeconomic inequality?

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Which one is the most passionate on that issue?

[WinkyDink]

1. DK, IMHO. He lived it.

[Demeter]

2. Also Edwards.

[OzarkDem]

24. Agree, both of them

Leaders like FDR are rare - people who have lived well but genuinely are committed to helping those less fortunate and willing to fight for fearlessly for them.

[book_worm]

3. I honestly believe that all of our people do. But the most passionate are

Edwards and Kucinich.

[bemildred]

4. DK. nt

[BattyDem]

5. Dennis Kucinich

He understands. He gets it.

[Clark2008]

6. Genuine? Kucinich

Feigned to reel in votes? Edwards

[DURHAM D]

7. Fred Thompson, and Mitt Romney have the most interest and

concern for continuing inequality.

[hootinholler]

37. Gotta wonder about Biden too.

:points at bankruptcy act:

-Hoot

[XemaSab]

8. Obama.

After getting his law degree (magna cum laude from Harvard), did he go into a law practice making mega-bucks? No, he became a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago.

[Vincardog]

9. Kucinich

[cureautismnow]

10. DK by far. n/t

[Richard Steele]

11. Kucinich.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. Edwards and Kucinich. Edwards stands a better chance of winning.....

... I think image is important. I like them both, but would go with the one that I think presents a better image.

[Cameron27]

13. Genuine interest?

Put up their voting records & compare. That's the best way to judge genuine interest IMO.

[saracat]

14. Edwards for absolutely sure! It is his major issue!

[malaise]

15. DK

by a distance.

[Toucano]

16. All the Democratic candidates have a genuine interest in socioeconomic inequality.

I think they just have different ideas about how it can be achieved.

[Demeter]

27. Are You Saying Inequality Is the Democratic Goal?

Or are you tripping over sentence structure?

[Toucano]

29. OMG! Usually I'm the one that notices those things.

D'oh!

It was definitely a trip. Thanks for pointing it out. :)

Some days just go like that, I guess.

[sandnsea]

17. Obama

He learned more in his time in Chicago. I think any time you have to experience some kind of discrimination, it becomes more real to you. I think Kucinich gets it for that reason too. Edwards, yeah. But there's a difference between parents who scrape by okay, and homelessness.

[smalll]

18. That is a tough one. I would maybe say Edwards, except that you used the word "genuine" /nt

[BeyondThePale]

19. John Edwards

Always been a cornerstone for him

[B Calm]

20. Edwards

[Blackhatjack]

21. Edwards -- for sure! He is a self-made man, and knows every rung on the ladder!

[Cruzan]

22. Gravel

No question.

[wuushew]

26. Gravel wants a flat tax

so I hope you were kidding.

[skids]

23. DK lived in a car nuff said. I like Edwards but DK wins this one.

What I want to know, is which candidate understands in the most first-handed fashion the way that all the little inequalities and petty crimes -- everything from unmerited promotions in the workplace to stolen car stereos -- serve to slowly erode away the decency of even the best people over time, and how that simply has to be addressed or civilization will pretty much crumble.

I mean I know every D candidate came from either poor or wealthy-but-conscientious roots. But the rags to riches story makes me worry that if the climb was "just hard work" and did not involve being personally and directly on the short end of an injustice at least once or twice, the candidate may have a tremendous respect for hard work, but not as much of a respect for the imperfect but oh-so-essential web of equity that we rely on to keep us from all strangling each other. On the flip side too much of that and maybe we should be wondering if they are too jaded...

I'd like to hear the candidates talk about those experiences sometime.

[Catchawave]

25. Edwards.

[LWolf]

28. Dennis Kucinich. No contest. n/t

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

30. DK first Edwards second

[laruemtt]

31. DK - no contest. n/t

[raccoon]

32. Obama. nt

[Ninga]

33. Apparently it doesn't matter. I think we will never ever see the dawn of a President

who champions the underclass like FDR did or the great society programs of LBJ.

Those days are gone.

What we have now, are media driven and pop culture Presidents. Voters will stand in line on election day and have no idea which lever they will pull.

It took women 72 years of fighting, demonstrating, writing, organizing and educating, just to get the right to Vote.

Universal Health care will not happen in my lifetime, nor will peace.

All the blithering and debating mean nothing, because without a land side vote next November, who ever is elected President will be marginalized unless they are willing to put it all on the line, and fight for what is right and just, rather than worrying about being elected for a second term.

[Annces]

34. Socioeconomic equality

That has always seemed to me to be an aloof term used by people who have never had to be concerned about their social or economic equality. I think the term Poor people would be more honest.

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35. That's the type of post that keeps DU in the gutter.

[Annces]

36. how

And what is your definition of socioeconomic?

[Johonny]

38. Hillary

She was against it before she was for it.

[Individualist]

39. Kucinich, the candidate for the people, not the corporations

[Romulox]

40. Poverty is JE's "signature campaign issue"...DK actually CARES about it outside of '08...nt