Post by Dan Cummings - I had the opportunity to cover Wednesday's debate in Philadelphia between Senators Obama and Clinton.  If you follow this race closely, you don't need another long take on the debate and its potential impact...so how about a short one?  
 
Before the debate, ABC News political correspondents Jake Tapper and Mark Halperin told me Senator Clinton may have to take the risky approach of going on the offensive, being aggressive...in questioning Senator Obama's chances against John McCain in November.   She needs a big win next Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary, and latest polls show she's only leading by single digits.   In my opinion, and despite other reports you may have seen that indicated Clinton went "on the attack" in the debate...I think she laid back a bit.  
 
When asked directly if she thinks Obama can beat McCain, she said "yes, yes, yes."  But, she then spent most of the next hour, politely but repeatedly questioning whether Obama, in a general election, would wither under the likely GOP attacks against his associations with his outspoken former pastor and a former member of the radical "Weather Underground,"...and recent comments by the Illinois Senator that the "bitter" working class in PA might be clinging to their guns and religion, to cope.
 
Her so-called "attacks" were rather subtle.  Too subtle, I think, to be labeled "attacks" at all.  We'll find out Tuesday if her debate strategy worked.