Blue on Blue: Martin O'Malley Takes Direct Shots at Hillary Clinton

In case you missed it -- and we can't blame you if you did -- former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley announced his candidacy for president over the weekend. The Democrat's odds are extremely long, for reasons enumerated in Leah's post, but that doesn't mean O'Malley can't serve a purpose. Self-described Socialist Bernie Sanders is running to Hillary Clinton's ideological left, and O'Malley will do the same. But Sanders seems to have gone out of his way to avoid hitting the Clintons, couching his critiques of their money "hustling" with 'far-be-it-from-me-to-judge' caveats, and generally eschewing negative campaigning altogether. He's a radical idealist; he isn't someone who seems prepared to get his hands dirty to scuff up the 800-pound political gorilla he's chasing. That