Debate Follow-Up

I watched a little bit of the Democratic debate on Tuesday, and I'm not sure Obama did enough to distinguish himself from Clinton. Both he and Edwards pounced on her waffling on ID cards for illegal immigrants, but then Obama said he agreed with her in supporting the ID cards. He did get the last laugh by telling a joke in response to the last question about what he was wearing for Halloween, but at the expense of Mitt Romney, not Clinton. I know he's walking a tightrope in attacking Clinton, but he has to start making some significant headway against a tightening Clinton campaign. There's plenty of misinformation about Obama out there -- I had a co-worker say he was un-electable because he's Muslim, when I'm pretty sure he's Christian -- so he has to fight back with facts and uncomplicated truth. For example, he was against the war in Iraq from the beginning. The summary on MSNBC said the Democratic debate has shifted slightly from Iraq to Iran, but I'm not sure the public is willing to follow the Democrats that far down the road in opposition to the war. Iran is certainly doing some dastardly things to our troops by funding opposition groups in Iraq, and freezing assets (as the topic of discussion was on Tuesday, apparently), seems like a diplomatic step that ought to be followed, rather than a step toward war necessarily. I didn't catch the whole debate, so I can't really comment on the whole thing, but from what I saw, Obama didn't quite do enough to win over reluctant voters.