Obama Joins Right Wing Conspiracy

Yeah, Hillary was pretty expansive at last night's debate. (Pix by AP's Jae C. Hong) She did well, knocking back Barack on healthcare right off the bat, and accusing John Edwards of being a Republican-style mudslinger. But Obama, to his peril, has joined the vast right-wing conspiracy. Democrats won't thank him for it. Rich Lowry, NRO, RCP:

In the early 1990s, few right-wing bugaboos loomed as large as Hillary Clinton's secret health-care task force. Conservatives who still routinely invoke the task force can seem obsessed with rehashing the greatest anti-Clinton hits of yore. But look who's talking about the task force now.

"They took all their people and all their experts into a room, and then they closed the door, and they tried to design the plan in isolation from the American people," said no, not Rush Limbaugh or Newt Gingrich or Rudy Giuliani, but the nation's foremost liberal tribune of hopefulness, Barack Obama.

And Obama gets cut off before he can finish his post-debate stemwinder to Dem dinner guests. The Swamp.