When the Democratic candidates for President debate tonight, they’ll all be aiming for one person:
When the Democratic candidates gather on the campus of Drexel University in Philadelphia on Tuesday for yet another debate, the arrows may be pointed even more directly at Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
And they could be coming from more than one direction.
In an interview last week, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois telegraphed his intention to sharpen his distinctions with Mrs. Clinton. At the same time, though, he said he had no plans to “kneecap the front-runner.”
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John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, often challenges Mrs. Clinton on the campaign trail, and did so on Monday in New Hampshire, declaring: “I asked Hillary Clinton to join me in not taking money from Washington lobbyists. She refused.”
And last week, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware said, “I don’t think Hillary is nearly as skilled as I am.”
Joe, that’s not saying very much.
