Edwards helps out Hillary by jumping on Obama for voting present 100 times. Edwards’ body language is suddenly and strangely aggressive, lots of pointing.

Obama offered an explanation that by voting present, you’re indicating that you have technical problems with a bill, but don’t want to see the legislation rejected.

Obama: “Most of these did not have political consequences… Most of them had technical problems that ended up getting resolved.”

They’re now discussing health care, which means the debate has shifted to the Emote-a-thon.

Obama has brought up “Bill Clinton” quite a lot – an attempt to paint Hillary as just a wife, perhaps?

To the extent that I follow Democrats’ debates on health care, I think Obama has a good response when he’s inevitably hit that his plan isn’t “universal” because it doesn’t have a mandate — ‘the problem with health care isn’t that people aren’t being told to buy it; it’s that they can’t afford it.” But then again, Democrats seem to have bigger appetites for mandatory directives from the federal bureaucracy than I do.

Still, Hillary has the stir-the-blood comment: “I’m not running for President to put band-aids on our problems.”