Great points, Dil!
NOW I HAVE SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO WATCHING (NON-STOP EDWARDS COVERAGE) INSTEAD OF THOSE BEIJING OLYMPICS!
YIIIPPPPEEEE!
Yes, the Dem Convention has just been sexed up; and with a teaser: "I am not the father".
This whole thing is just too darned trite. It couldn't have happened more perfectly to take any and everyone's eyes off the dem "fallout" between their special interest groups and coalitions.
But.. whoever wrote that for John Edwards really screwed up making Miss Rielle out to be the cause of his "downfall" and the "other guy". Dems are thinking this'll be an empowerment message. Perhaps that's what they wished; but rule #1: You don't slam single women. And Edwards just did.
The "strategists" protected the married couples (Clinton, Edwards, Baracks) and basically implied that single mothers would get cash, nice cash each month but they had to agree to take the fall as the "problem" and cause.
I'd have given my eyeteeth to have quietly observed those discussions and transactions behind the scenes.