Fascinating reading.
As a British-born Canadian and life-long student of US politics, I really appreciate the skill with language, breadth of knowledge, and acute political insight so many of you bring to this topic. I know I'm an outsider to your political process, but I do tons of research. For entertainment, I watch Wolf Blitzer daily (love Jack Cafferty) and to have any kind of voice, I maintain an episodic blog at MyBarackObama.com I think all of that qualifies me to have an opinion, which today is that Barack and John Edwards looked very good together on that stage - all kinds of young charismatic energy and enthusiasm - and pretty much intellectual equals. I'm glad the race issue has shown itself in the public debate so early, and I'm hoping John Edwards' presence in the campaign will help reassure the fearful that Barack is not a monster.