Dueling Videos in the Aftermath of Hillary’s Debate Stumble

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After Hillary Clinton’s subpar performance in the most recent debate, the Clinton campaign tried to take the spotlight off her blunders by releasing this video, called “The Politics of Pile On”:

And it may come back to hurt her, because it invited the Edwards campaign to release this video, called “The Politics of Parsing”:

Obama has been talking a lot about how he’s going to start attacking Clinton. Edwards, on the other hand, has actually started attacking Clinton.