Shakespeare’s Sister is bowing out of the Edwards campaign.
Not surprising - after all, once you start getting threats of violence because of a right-wing smear job, you start thinking about packing in the whole high-profile-job thing. Fortunately, for those whose attention spans aren't all that long, driftglass sums up how the hatchets were being swung (like they usually are) quite smartly:
1. The scripture-barking, Christ-defiling demagogies who run the show carefully and deliberately angry up the dung people.
2. They glean votes and dollars and ratings and its all a lot of fun until Tim McVeigh blows up a federal building because he took them at their word.
3. Then the scripture-barking, Christ-defiling American Taliban who run the show swear they had no idea it would ever go this far.
4. Then they do it all over again.
I am Spartacus.
