Confessions of an Errant Mind

It's rare that I agree with George Will on anything, but his column today does a good job of stating my reservations with John Edwards. His performance in last night's debate was strong, but there's something about his populism that doesn't sit right with me. You can read Will's whole column here, but here's the closing line that I think articulates the point well, though the main point is about Obama:

Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee -- an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic "fights" against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.