Hmm.
On April 26, Joe Scarborough said,
Damn. John Edwards just gave a fantastic closing argument. It was the most human moment of the debate and is the type of snapshot of a candidate's soul that moves voters.
But sometime between April 26 and April 27, Joe had a change of heart . . . leading me to ask: Hey, Joe -- WTF happened?
Here's Joe today (April 27) over at Huffington Post:
Unfortunately for those who know and like him, John Edwards seemed to be somewhere else last night. I kept hoping to see some of the rhetorical flourish Senator Edwards wowed us with in 2004 but it never came. Only after the debate did I really think about the burden his wife's illness must be putting on his shoulders. That being said, last night's performance will do little to help his campaign.
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Hillary's stock went up a bit and John Edwards' dropped. But the most important development may be that all those Washington pundits comparing Barack Obama to Bobby Kennedy and Jesus Christ will lower their expectations and start judging Obama for who he is: an incredibly gifted writer and orator who arrived in the US Senate two years ago.
The biggest beneficiary of those lowered expectations will be none other than Barack Obama himself.
Tell me what you think, but I found Scarborough's analysis on HuffPo singularly unfocused. Although the above snippet is superficially friendly towards Clinton, he works in a few jabs elsewhere. Pro-Obama op-ed for the pro-Obama HuffPo? I don't know.
But it's hard to see his treatment of Edwards as anything less than a full 180.