Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is against Wal-MART, or if I had to guess, he’s for the American Left’s support of his future candidacy and he knows he has a winning ticket for assailing Wal-MART within the socialist confines of the far-left. It’s quite a spectacle too, knowing how Edwards told the national press his staff member who tried to push his way through a Playstation 3 line (another issue of entitlement there too) to buy Edwards’ children a system simply didn’t know the evils of Wal-MART. I don’t either.

As a bit of a background, let me state I don’t like Wal-MART and I own a paltry amount of stock in Target so I’ve always prefered Target. Wal-MART is crowded and the stores are often too big. Nothing is appealing for me at Wal-MART. However, since the fringes of the Liberal establishment hate Wal-MART so much, I figure there has to be a reason for me to shop there this Christmas, and shop there for at least a couple of gifts I will.

Edwards will detest me, or at least he’ll say he detests people that shop at the store, but the argument he and other Wal-MART haters cites is the supposed low wages of employees and no health care. There’s an easy solution for all of this. If you don’t like the wages Wal-MART pays its employees and you don’t like how they don’t have health insurance for all full-time members, then don’t work at Wal-MART. We’re told that’s it, but we all really know it’s because Wal-MART employees are not represented by a union. Yay capitalism!

Edwards plans to have a book signing (hey, who knew he could write?) where he will most likely tear into Wal-MART for low wages, health care, ad nauseam. Since he’s promoting a book and playing his Wal-MART schtick, there’s no better place to do so than at a Barnes & Noble store right next to a Wal-MART. There’s just one problem, according to the Union Leader.

So naturally Edwards is holding his book signing at Barnes & Noble instead of Wal-Mart. Which is too bad for his anti-low-wages campaign, because in Manchester Wal-Mart pays hourly employees more than Barnes & Noble does.

The Barnes & Noble where Edwards will hawk his book pays $7 an hour to start. The Wal-Mart that sits just yards away pays $7.50 an hour.

Doh! John Edwards really is a homer.