My good friend Harold Meyerson has a wise column in today's Washington Post about the three top Democratic presidential contenders and their performances before the recent DNC meeting. Harold talks about Obama's, Edward's and Clinton's appearances, focusing on their discussions of politics, economics and of course, the war with Iraq. But, his take on support for organized labor is especially important. All of them have above average labor records; any of them would be light years better than what we have now and what we could have, but Edwards has gotten himself out there early as the candidate of labor. He's been on the picket and organizing lines; his own history is of the son of a mill worker, and he genuinely seems to get the economic divide in our country, between the haves and have nots. But, still. But still.....

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