Reeves: Edwards' response to Iowa off

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on January 8, 2008 - 12:26pm.
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Richard Reeves thinks John Edwards' response to the Iowa results was out of touch.

The syndicated columnist writes that he doesn't understand Edwards' line after coming in second place: "The status quo lost and change won. We saw two candidates who thought their money made them inevitable."

Writing from Paris, Reeves says that Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd were the "status quo," but he wonders how Barack Obama fits in the equation:

If Edwards thinks Obama, the half-Kenyan guy who just got to Washington three years ago and spoke out passionately against the toy soldier senators marching as to war, is part of the status quo, then the very rich former senator from North Carolina is totally out of touch with Iowa and North Carolina, too.

Reeves writes that Obama is "not your father’s America, unless your father came from Kenya."

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Re: Reeves: Edwards' response to Iowa off

Submitted by natdug on January 8, 2008 - 1:49pm.

With regard to to the first part of Edwards' claim, I think, based on the debate in New Hampshire, you can safely say the message is Edwards and Obama represent change (thus the 1,2 finish) and Clinton represents the status quo.

The second part...eh, I dunno...I think he forgot that in that 1,2 finish, he was actually #2.

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