I am so sick of this, "Edwards Blasts Obama, Hillary scolds Edwards, Obama hits Clinton, crap. Could the candidates possibly just be saying what they are
saying?
Could it be that in lieu of serious insight and real reporting all we get are, spats, feuds, and horse races?
This is the Bread and Circuses kind of non-reportage that demeans the political process.
Obama is no better or worse than the other egotistical, self-important types who choose to run for president. None of them can go two sentences without praising themselves or making not-so-subtle digs at the other guy.
All that bringing attention to the attacks on Clinton does is give the impression that Clinton is ahead in the polls, and she is, so what do you expect Edwards and Obama to do, send her their concession speeches?

Candidate behind in polls says something against candidate ahead in the polls is not very newsworthy and would be surprising if it wasn't happening.
Guess who would be getting, "jabs", if Edwards was leading in the polls?
I'm sure the Clinton camp is happy that everything seems to be all about her, here at msnbc.

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=09&year=2007&base_name=post_4955

POOR BILL RICHARDSON. Even after Obama left the stage here at the SEIU forum, the crowd continued chanting his name: "Oh-ba-ma! Oh-ba-ma!" Andy Stern had to get up and remind, "We have other candidates here. A lot of friends!"
In the ladies' room, a middle-aged white woman, hands clasped, exclaimed, "He is just so inspiring! He's gonna bring a change!"


• Here's Goldstein's previous blog entry during Obama's speech:
TOP-FORM OBAMA. Barack Obama is a natural in front of this crowd. He's shouting, they're standing, the room is roaring. He says he's walked on picket lines since his days as a community organizer after college, and that as president, if he hears workers rights are being compromised, "I'll have to find a comfortable pair of shoes."
He shouts, "I'm not new to this!" He imitates a candidate embracing labor for the first time: "Oh, you organize? The SEIU wears purple shirts?" Laughter. The implication is pretty clear: John Edwards, despite his work of recent years, doesn't have as long of a history with the SEIU. Now Obama's receiving another standing ovation as he criticizes Congressional Democrats for taking too much money from big business.
This speaking style is exciting. Obama sounds more like a civil rights leader today and a lot less like an overly cautious presidential candidate. He's doing call and response, and his one-liners are cutting... if you don't see this Obama, the Obama today completely at home rabble-rousing among labor activists, you can't comprehend the fervor some of his progressive supporters

Obama is a likable guy; and I like him.  But not as president yet.  He is a very able junior senator, quick to rush into fixing and changing things.  Any mention of the Constitution?  No.  Any mention of whether the U.S. Government should even be *in* the business of health care?  No. Health care in the U.S. was excellent and affordable before the government got involved.  The government has a very poor track record except for taking care of its politicians; the people are not doing well.  That is why I am going to support Ron Paul.

I agree with George,all we get is non-information with this kind of reporting.It's like watching an NFL game and the commentator tells you what you had just seen.I'm sorry but I don't need them telling about the GAME nor reporters exaggerating and playing up the candidates like it was a game.
Any politition that thinks this is a game should be fired "impeached" for playing with the citizens lives and money like it was their own. We as a people should hold them responsible and accountable.

Obama is the ONLY one who has the ideas and judgment to be President.
He may not have all that bad experience of making mistakes like the other candidates, but he will have lots of time to do that after he gets elected.He makes people so excited that many have to go to the bathroom, and he has the best plan for health care, without a doubt, and no one can deny it. His charisma is shinier than Edwards' hair, prettier than Mitt Romney's wife and more colorful than Hillary's pants suit, and he's Bi-Racial! What more could you want?

He's even been a senator of a state, now he's a real senator and they make great Presidents, which is impossible to deny. He has a guy so smart with him now that nobody can pronounce his name, forget about spell it!
The MSM just doesn't tell you how people can't stop yelling when they see him, or how many people have to go to the bathroom, or about the guy who's name nobody can pronounce, or that he's the only one who can bring us together and he went to AFRICA! What more could you want?
He doesn't even wear a tie a lot of the time! His health care plan is the best and he was against the war before anyone else, go ahead and ask him and he will tell you!
He doesn't need a tie and he's not tied to the special interests or the past! Whatever you think about him, he thought of it first and you are just copying him!
ASK HIM! I dare you.

George,

This line is up there with all the best one liners I have ever heard........

"His charisma is shinier than Edwards' hair, prettier than Mitt Romney's wife and more colorful than Hillary's pants suit, and he's Bi-Racial! What more could you want?"

I could not want anymore!  He has it all.  I love your way of looking at the obvious.  The man is both white and black, he is the best of both Worlds!

Obama/Webb '08.
This would be an unbeatable ticket for the Dems.

GO OBAMA! one can only watch when history unfolds itself before us. I am glad that I am part of this time in our history!

FIRE UP..... READY TO GO! Yes we can!

What a biased story: you know the word on the ground at SEIU is that EDWARDS STOLE THE SHOW. Stop your baloney about Clinton and Obama, Obama and Clinton, when this clearly isn't about them. Please!

oh George...lol

Zenniper health care was not fine before government got involved. Many doctors took charity cases and many did not. There are many people alive today that would be dead if not for programs like Medicare and Medicaid many of you do not know that if your parent goes into a nursing home and runs out of money medicaid picks up the tab otherwise it would come from you.

But Rufus how many people really can ever picture themselves in some stinking nursing home?
I have not seen one yet that I would want to put a parent in OR God forbid have to go myself.  I'd rather call Dr. Kevorkian.
I agree we need HUGH oversight on Health care.

Obama, who graduated from Columbia and decided to go back to Chicago to organize poor people around issues, has approached his campaign as an opportunity to build a movement — a movement based in communities around issues that matter.
Why are so many people responding to Obama? Because he is straightforward, and is clearly about a lot more than his own ego. Unlike John Edwards, Obama hasn’t had to “move to the left” or discover that he was wrong about Iraq. Obama didn’t discover unions and the rift between rich and poor after losing an election in 2004.
Unlike Hillary Clinton, Obama has been consistently solid on the key issues — and unlike Hillary, we know, if Obama is elected, where he will be on the issues. (Do we really need a second Clinton presidency, framed by lots of progressive hype, which delivers so little in the way of progressive legislation, and so much to Wall St?) And, perhaps most important, Obama’s followers have the potential — with the support of their candidate — to build a new progressive movement in the U.S. and a new reform movement in the Democratic Party. Obama speaks about his candidacy, and even his possible election as president, as part of the launching of a new movement to change America. The president of the United States encouraging a movement for progressive social change? Now there’s a thought!
There are two ways that we can look at next year’s election. We can look at it as an opportunity to stop the endless mudslide of domestic and foreign disasters that have darkened our horizons during the Bush years. This would be no minor accomplishment. But, next year, we can try to do more. We can look to elect a president who not only looks different, but who thinks and acts differently, a progressive champion who boldly reasserts government’s role as protector and uplifter of the people at home, and who can reinvent American foreign policy as a force for peace, not coercive power, across the globe.
We need a candidate, and a president, who understands that he or she cannot succeed unless the people are standing alongside him — ahead of the powerbrokers and money guys — ready to help enforce their collective will. There is no question that Barack Obama is such a candidate.

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