Hillary Attacks Edwards, Comes Off 'Over-Sensitive'

This past Sunday John Edwards gave a rousing speech to a packed audience at the Riverside Church here in Manhattan. He called on the Congress to stop funding the immoral war that Bush recklessly began nearly four years ago. A noble gesture that had me and two thousand others in the church applauding for several moments.

Apparently Hillary Clinton took his statements a little too personally. Senior advisor Howard Wolfson fired this off at Edwards:

"In 2004, John Edwards used to constantly brag about running a positive campaign. Today, he has unfortunately chosen to open his campaign with political attacks on Democrats who are fighting the Bush administration's Iraq policy."

Of course Edwards never mentioned Hillary by name. He called on all of Congress to take steps to end the war. In my view this would be a postive thing to do, since the war is, well you know, bad. So Edwards defended himself on the cable networks today:




Edwards played it cool and calm, while making the still-unannounced Hillary looking for a fight. The gloves are coming off early for the Clinton camp and we haven't seen anything yet.