Because you would be wrong— he is:

“I understand how important the opportunity to lead your party’s efforts to exploit this issue must seem to a freshman senator, and I hold no hard feelings over your earlier disingenuousness.”

You know, a couple of interesting things here. He’s so well-versed in that way of talking out of both sides of one’s mouth that is the hallmark of Senatorial discourse that I wonder if it will play well in a presidential race. Being a senator really seems to warp politicians into a very particular political style that no one since LBJ has been able to leave behind to win a presidential election (and him only after spending four years out of the senate to recover).

Second, it seems like he’s really distinguishing Obama by singling out a freshman senator in this way. But maybe what he’s really doing is picking his enemy— lending a sort of backhanded prestige to a potential 2008 opponent whose inexperience might make him a more preferable enemy than Hillary?

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