John Edward is a man that rose from the working class into the High class. He has earned his money, no one gave it to him nor did he inherited it. He has the right to spend it in whatever he wants.

the Bush war is costing thousands of American lives, and probably close to a million Iraqies. members of the Bush administration have torn the constitution apart and used to clean their behinds and I don't read about. I wonder why a haircut from man that earned his money is more important news that the atrocities of the Bush Administration.

Yeah, I think anyone who would spend $400 on a haircut (and the proceeds were not going to a charity) have pretty much displayed a cavalier and irresponsible regard for finances...

Um, it was $400 for TWO haircuts that required the hairstylist to travel. But don't expect the press to actually fact check or anything.

Jonn Edwards lost my vote with that. 400 dollars can go a long way with many people, to be so vain to pay that amount for a haircut is beyond me.
I pay 10 dollars for a haircut. I'm a regular American, Edwards is a phony, he is out of touch with regular Americans. SHAME!

An unjustified war & occupation in Iraq that cost trillions, toe-tapping public restroom scandals, torturing prisoners of war, Alaskan bridges that go to nowhere, secret energy policy meetings between the vice president and energy conglomerates and everything else that's wrong in America and all this guy can do is concentrate on someone spending too much of his own hard-earned cash on a couple of haircuts???? This sounds like the only candidate for President that can make Dubya leave office looking like a genius.

Oh yeah and my advice to Rep. Tancredo is beware of cheap haircuts.

These Republican candidates need to worry more about the war in Iraq than John Edward's haircut - its not like he spent tax payers money to look good - yet the Repubs continue to give away our tax dollars to Iraq and let American soldiers die in vain. Shame on them.

Hey Tancredo why don't you make more of an issue on how much of my own money I have to pay for healthcare insurence than how much of someone else is being charged on their haircut?

This is a bull**** story. Every candidate running is a millionaire, spending money frivolously on something. So what, a $400 haircut? Has NOTHING to do with their ability or inability to effectively move America forward. Grow up.

And BTW, how much does Tancredo spend getting his temples neatly greyed out, so he can look like Paulie Walnuts on "The Sopranos".

I don’t care how much of his own money he spends on a haircut. That’s his business. LA-X was shut down while Bill Clinton sat in AF 1 getting an expensive haircut. That was wrong. Hillary and crew didn’t leave a tip, that was wrong. Hillary will still get elected. Too many people follow the news media’s orders.

i am a student but i pay #100 for my haircuts - i am never unhappy with my hair (most women would agree this is rare) and they are so precisely done that i only need two a year - are people going to get all indignant if someone gets cosmetic dentitry ?

Um, Royce. Senator Clinton's campaign staff left a $100 tip on a $157 check. Wish I had been stiffed like that when I was waiting tables. It's too bad that the truth of the situation is Iowa hasn't been able to keep up with the spread of misinformation.

Anyone who gets a $400 haircut disqualifies him- or herself from speaking for the common people.
Give us a break: Yes, we want our representatives look, ah, well, representative--but not at such a horrendous price. This feeds many families for quite a time. And, Edwards, references to your father working in a mine is not at all helpful here.

The issue here is not the cost of a haircut or how much money a candidate has or spends(although I agree with those who say shame on Edwards for such frivolous spending). The issue is the message. Does a wealthy candidate who serves the interests of even wealthier donors send the message that middle America, where most of us reside, want and need to hear? And as long as we're on the subject of money, Mike Huckabee is rising rapidly in the GOP polls. He is now a close second to Romney in Iowa. Romney has spent $10,000,000 on campaign ads in Iowa. Huckabee has spent $0. To me, that says voters are interested in his message, not his money. Or his haircut.

In reply to EJ: John Edwards "earned" his money by suing doctors. He and those like him are the reason medical students are opting not to go into obstetrics and why it is more and more difficult for the women of this country to get good pre-natal care. John Edwards is a rat!

You right wingers: you can criticize John Edwards for a haircut out of his own money, but none of you right wingers would be caught dead donating $400 to a poor person.

I wonder how much Newt Gingrich's haircut cost? How much did fender cut Bush-chimp's haircut cost? How much did Dick Cneney's 'ring trim and wax job' cost on his bald head?

You right wingers all take exception to John Edwards being a trial lawyer, but you have no trouble OKing thievery by Kellog,
Brown and Root and Halliburton ripping off the taxpayer, and you have no trouble with the right wing lawyers who usurped the presidency inserting Bush into office when there should have been a re-election....but you choke at John Edwards making a legitimate capitalistic living from his own talents.
Why does hypocrisy ooze forth when the odor of Republicans is present?

Maybe Republicans SHOULD be spending $400 on haircuts. They all look like Jerry Falwell...with those triple-chins, white pasty/puffy skin, and those ridiculous "hair hats". At least John Edwards looks good and doesn't have to molest boys, cruise for gay sex in bathrooms, or hire prostitutes to change his diapers. He's a Democrat...he likes WOMEN OF LEGAL AGE.

Tancredo is nothing more than a paranoid racist WOP. More meatballs anyone?