COMMENT There you have it - the immediate prelude to the 13th general election has come down, at least for one side, to a neat summary of what the contest is all about: It's a battle between plutocrats and egalitarians, says Pakatan Rakyat's Anwar Ibrahim.

The Pakatan campaigner-in-chief hammered away at this theme at several ceramah the week just past, feeding a penchant for catchy summation on the part of the pen-and-recorder crowd.

"This battle, this election is about the masses, the workers, the low-income earners against the rich cronies of Umno," Anwar thundered to a ceramah in Ampang earlier this week...