It's hard to see how being attacked from the left by Edwards and Obama will hurt Hillary Clinton in a general election. Whether they criticize her as a corporate centrist for NAFTA or as a hawk for Lieberman-Kyl, they're actually helping Clinton get where she's been trying to go for the last several years -- away from her reputation as a particularly liberal Democrat. While left-wing positions are a good thing to have in our times, even from an electability perspective, you have to forcefully defend them to make them work for you. That's not what we'd ever see in a Clinton general election campaign, especially on war issues. We're just going to see Hillary triangulate her way to the center, and we should cheer Edwards and Obama for trying to push her public image there.
