Edwards' Establishment problem

Now that his poll numbers are showing him within striking distance of the two annointed front runners, Edwards is making the political and media elite very nervous with his populist message.

At Daily Kos, The Democratic Establishment Can't Stand John Edwards
and Greenspan Attacks Edwards…The REAL WAR in ON discuss this phenomenon. And in Iowa, Edward is trying to close the sale, invoking Franklin Roosevelt, who incurred the bitter wrath of the business interests as he saved the country from its worst depression.