"This is not hardball, this is batting practice," Matthews complained to the audience during a commercial break. "This guy is killing me. He couldn't do this four years ago."Three years ago, I hadn't yet decided on the candidate I liked for the Democratic nomination. Then came the night of Iowa caucuses.
All I can remember is watching the results coming in and then CNN cut to John Edwards's speech. I fell in political love with a candidate for the first time in my adult life. I was literally angry when they cut away to show Howard Dean's speech. Don't get me wrong; Howard Dean's a smart man, and he probably would have been elected President as recently as 75 years ago, but his brand of arrogant intelligence is better suited to the smoky backroom than it is to the national campaign stage where you have to, you know, connect with voters on a visceral level.
I'd be kind of okay with Edwards/Obama '08.