Bill Clinton says to the reporter(s), "You don't care about what your own people care about. They care about what happens to the American people. That's one thing John Edwards was right about during the debate."
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/01/23/bill.clinton.yellin.cnnThat comment is very telling. This confirms, IMO, that Edwards has been driving the debate for some time --
certainly back to this incident in NH. Without Edwards consistently bringing the American people into the fray between Obama and Clinton, I doubt seriously that we would even be hearing what the "American people care about" from either Clinton or Obama. It would just be more "He said" "She said" bickering between Obama and the Clintons.