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Opening Arguments

There goes the neighborhood

We know, because John Edwards has told us so, that there are "two Americas." Apparently, they are right across from each other:

RALEIGH -- Elizabeth Edwards says she is scared of the "rabid, rabid Republican" who owns property across the street from her Orange County home -- and she doesn't want her kids going near the gun-toting neighbor.

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Edwards views Johnson as a "rabid, rabid Republican" who refuses to clean up his "slummy" property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.

Johnson admits to being a Republican and even acknowledges he likes guns, but resents the remarks about his property.

Johnson said he has lived his entire life on the property, which he said his family purchased before the Great Depression. He said he's spent a lot of money to try and fix up the 42-acre tract.

"I have to budget. I have to live within my means," Johnson said. "I don't have millions of dollars to fix the place."

Given the kinds of things Edwards espouses in his campaign, shouldn't he be giving Johnson the money to fix his place up? Oh, no, wait. You and I would get the bill for that, wouldn't we?

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