Over at Crooksandliars.com, Nicole Belle observes that Wolf Blitzer, Charles Krauthamer and Edwards opponents are all trying to pull a Howard Dean on him. If Edwards is smart, he'll have prepared for it.
I'd guess the best way to defuse it is to have comedian friends make jokes about it.
Fact is, Hilary is the angriest looking of the bunch, and Bill sure gets into some scary places too. And to be honest, Dennis Kucinich gets self righteously angry when he's riffing on democracy and justice.
Here's the script Nicole Belle cited. And the video is at the link above.
BLITZER: You know, it’s interesting. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seem to be making the same point in criticizing you. They suggested yesterday — Hillary Clinton said it’s not something you have to do by yelling and screaming. They are talking about your being supposedly one angry man. Barack Obama saying change doesn’t come by hollering.
What do you say to their criticisms that you are just running over around the state screaming and hollering and making a lot of noise, but you’re not ready to really get things done to work to get things done?
EDWARDS: Well, I would respectfully say that the reason both of them are attacking me is that they know from what they are seeing and their campaigns are seeing is that we are moving up every single day. All the polling shows it, I see it on the ground. And — but the mistake that is being made in the criticism, of course, is I’m not the normal politician doing political talk. Instead, I’m speaking from my heart and soul and my gut about what I believe needs to be done in this country to stop corporate greed and to strengthen the middle class. And they are seeing the response, and they are trying to figure out some way to blunt it.
