Former senator John Edwards, D-N.C., has already been in attack mode for some time. “I’m with you, brother,” he declared when an audience member called for “a revolution tomorrow morning,” Jeff Zeleny reports in The New York Times. “With Mrs. Clinton taking heavy fire from Democratic and Republican candidates alike, Mr. Edwards is trying to recast the race, brushing aside questions about his fund-raising (trailing Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama on that front, he is accepting public financing) and poll numbers (his early strength in Iowa has eroded as those two rivals have lavished time and money here) to assert that only he can assure a Democratic victory next November,” Zeleny writes.
But if Edwards doesn’t get his clear shot at Clinton, he may wind up helping Obama, Peter Canellos writes in The Boston Globe. “Edwards might be making some headway if this were a two-person race, Edwards against Clinton. But it’s not, and Obama, who has maintained a [John} Kerry-like posture, is ready to reap any of the votes that Edwards succeeds in peeling away from Clinton.”
Just don’t ask Edwards about those foreclosures tied to Fortress Investments: He told a Nevada Public Radio interviewer that such questions amount to a “personal attack.” “This, by the way, is not on the issues. This is a personal attack,” Edwards said. “These questions are all being planted by somebody. I’m through — I’ve said enough about that. What’s your next question?”
ABC The Note 11/6/07
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=2
