Commentary

John Kerry and John Edwards love outsourcing.

That is, they love talking about it. “If you think outsourcing jobs is good, then you should vote for George Bush!” Edwards told a crowd in outsourcing-wary Ohio, the state that might be the election’s most coveted prize. He had to be enjoying himself as he bellowed, “John Kerry and I want to keep good jobs in America!” The Kerry-Edwards rhetorical strategy is that simple: oppose outsourcing and you’re the American worker’s best friend. We witnessed outsourcing’s equal-and-opposite effect during the chillier atmosphere of the last presidential debate. Read on, here.