Edwards Asks: Who Can Best Deliver Change? A Lover or a Fighter?

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Edwards' New Strategy Against Obama: Who Can Best Deliver Change, A Lover Or A Fighter?
By Greg Sargent - January 4, 2008, 9:50AM

With the candidates already stumping in New Hampshire, the thing to watch now is how Edwards and Hillary retool their approaches to adapt to the new political realities that have been created by Obama's seismic win last night.

Today in New Hampshire he employed a contrast with Obama that we haven't heard before:

"I am not the candidate of glitz; I am not the candidate of glamor," Edwards said. "I am the candidate who will fight with every fiber of my being every step of the way."

Edwards' approach now is to cast yesterday's results as simply a Hillary loss and a victory for an abstract desire for change, rather than a victory for Obama, as well as casting the rest of the contest as a head-to-head battle between himself and Obama for that change mantle. Hillary has been airbrushed from the picture, in Edwards' telling.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/01/edwards_new_strategy_against_obama_who_can_best_deliver_change_a_lover_or_a_fighter.php

[JDPriestly]

1. It's Mellancamp v. Oprah

[Cameron27]

2. That's some airbrush

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. it's a fair question

i'd like to see him and Obama debate this point tomorrow night.

[karynnj]

4. Anger, threats and smears are not the only ways to fight

Edwards has spoken of fighting for the little guy or the middle class, but if you listened to Obams's speech, you would have heard that he actually has done this. Out of Harvard Law School, he chose to be an advocate on the streets of the South side of Chicago - and as the song says, it is the "baddest part of town".

If you look at his record in the Illinois Senate he fought and WON on issues like health care. His record there and in the US Senate are far more liberal, than Edwards' record that he runs away from. He was a typical member of the DLC and voted accordingly - except on some trade bills that would have adversely hurt people in his state. He voted for the 2000 and the 2001 bankruptcy bills - including an amendment that tried to handle people with large medical costs differently.

Only in the last 2 years has he become a big union supporter, anti corporate liberal. What I don't get is how he thinks he can change things that people saw. Here it was not Obama and Edwards in a near tie and Clinton 8 points behind, it was Obama with Clinton and Edwards in a near tie. If people try to tell me things I KNOW are inaccurate and I have good reason to believe they know the truth, it makes me thing less of them.

Obama can fight, but with intelligence, dignity and moral strength - that can work better than fighting by increasing the anger and division.