Obama attacks Edwards? [View All]

I was glad to see Obama finally speak about poverty (although he has had a page on it on his website for a while, indicating his sincerity on the issue) but dismayed to read this. Obama talks about a "new kind of politics" but this is just another in a series of thinly veiled attacks from him, or overt attacks from his staff, on his rivals.

==Unwilling to cede the issue to Edwards, Obama spoke at a recreation center in the nation's capital, and in a jab at his rival, argued that combatting poverty was hardly new for him, a one-time community organizer in Chicago.

"This kind of poverty is not an issue I just discovered for the purposes of a campaign, it is the cause that led me to a life of public service almost twenty-five years ago," the Illinois senator said in prepared remarks.==

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/18/AR2007071801097.html