It Depends on Your Definition of "Advantage"

I just finished reading David Leonhardt's interview with Barack Obama from a couple of weeks ago (here's a couple of sharp responses), and I couldn't help be reminded of the following campaign analysis:

Neither candidate has particularly deep economic knowledge or finely honed economic instincts. Neither has any clear idea exactly what to do in the current financial meltdown.

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Neither candidate has an advantage on this issue.

It was a silly idea then, and it hasn't aged well.