Yearly Kos presidential forum liveblog (7)

Obama: let's double foreign aid—this in avoiding a sandbag question by the moderator about whether or not he thinks American foreign policy in the Middle East was one of the causes of 9/11.

Senator Edwards, following up on the topic, is showing the eye of the tiger in this debate. He really wants to win over this audience—pushing a little bit beyond the time limit with several of his answers. May I humbly suggest it's a strategy: he's trying to render himself the victim of "mainstream media" bullying.

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