A labor/business risk from Obama and Edwards

Separate from the rightness or wrongness of going after Walmart for their employee practices, I find this an interesting and risky pre-2008 move from Obama and Edwards.

Union-backed critics of Wal-Mart Stores are launching an advertising campaign, enlisting prominent Democrats, and attacking the company’s wages and benefits, as well as recently enacted attendance and salary policies, in a move timed to potentially disrupt the company’s holiday sales.

Edwards' positioning has been such that this will just emphasize his "two Americas" economic themes, but does Obama really want to risk being called anti-business/anti-economy at this point? Maybe. But if there is a "disruption" to sales, it could be wielded against him to donors and on the stump through Nov. 2008.

It just seems an interesting gamble.