Once again, Obama missed an opportunity to draw a critical difference between himself and Hillary, on how to bring about change. His essential point is sound: that you can't get any real change done without inspiring people to get behind your leadership and plans. What he should have said explicitly is that HRC is too polarizing to make that happen.
Edwards delivered his typical populist attack on "moneyed interests," saying, "You cannot nice these people to death. It doesn't work." It reminded me of something I read on a blog, I think, the other day, in which the writer drew a comparison between Huckabee's populism and Edwards' populism. Edwards, the writer said, hits people over the head with his populist message. Huck, by way of contrast, invites people to share his position. It's a difference in tone, but a big one.
Hillary is helping herself tonight. Obama is treading water. That might be okay, given his momentum, but he's not doing himself any favors. And it would be so easy to! You'd think the race was between Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, given how vigorously they're performing tonight.
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Rod, you'll never be a good political strategist (not that you ever claimed to be).
Obama could NEVER, NEVER, NEVER say that in a Democrat(ic) debate. What you may have overlooked is that he didn't have to state the obvious.
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