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Saturday, January 5, 2008 12:00 AM

The politics of not nice

John Edwards tells New Hampshire voters "you can't nice special interests to death." But nobody's saying Obama is too nice. Yet.
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  • Saturday, January 5, 2008 01:12 PM

    you can't "nice" corporate America

    As much as I sympathize with the scrappy street fighter (image) that Edwards has recently come to embody, as I said in a different conversation thread I couldn't help but think that Edwards, as a white male, has more of a historical opportunity to play that angry man on t.v. than Obama does.

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