Reply #49: Howard Dean ran like Edwards

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Howard Dean completely changed who he had been his entire life, and ran as the firebrand leftist from Vermont. He made outlandish lefty statements, and statements that were completely the opposite of what he had supported just months before.

Obama knows how to frame his positions in words that don't offend the middle. He doesn't move to the middle, he makes the middle move to him.

It isn't a matter of his personality, it's a matter of standing on his principles. When he says something, it isn't hyperbole or focus grouped so he doesn't have to come back and make one of those classic "the candidate misspoke" which Dean became famous for, and that Hillary was stepping into there for a while. He says what he means so he can stand by it. That's what most Americans are looking for in a leader.