The Daily Banter Headline Grab (from Reuters): A gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at a Sikh temple during Sunday services before police shot him dead in an attack that authorities are treating as an act of domestic terrorism. Witnesses said the gunman ...read more
By Ben Cohen: On most issues, I agree with former Congressman Anthony Weiner. His unashamed liberalism has always been refreshing and he was a force for good in a political system that rarely produces anything to write home about. But Weiner let himself and his side down with ...read more
From YahooNews: The Justice Department announced Wednesday it will give up its criminal case against former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. In May, a deadlocked North Carolina federal jury found Edwards not guilty of one charge of accepting illegal campaign ...read more
Former Senator John Edwards' affair and child out of wedlock derailed a political rise that put him on the Democrats' 2004 White House ticket, but the one-time trial lawyer held his head high on Thursday after a North Carolina jury delivered his most personal victory yet. ...read more
On any given day in the fall of 2007, John Edwards could be heard preaching his populist prose to Iowa voters who eagerly packed into lumber barns, VFW halls and Culver restaurants across the state. His message was less about the two Americas of his 2004 campaign -- the haves ...read more
Image via Wikipedia The revelation that Arnold Schwarzennegger fathered a child with a member of his household staff shouldn't really be surprising. As a Los Angelino, I have heard many, many stories about Arnold's sexual indiscretions, and the only thing shocking is that this ...read more
The latest chapter in the story of the narcissistic moron who almost destroyed the Demcratic party. Sources have told WRAL News that they expect former U.S. Sen. John Edwards to admit that he is the father of his former mistress' 18-month-old daughter. Shocking. ...read more
First of all, for what he did to his family. Clearly inexcusable. But also what he almost did to America. Had Edwards somehow attained the Democratic nomination, this story would have surely killed his candidacy and elected John McCain. I can't believe what an asshole this guy ...read more
Link John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extra-marital affair with a novice film-maker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today. In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did ...read more
I've seriously pooh-poohed the idea that Obama would pick Edwards as his running mate. I still think its unlikely. But man, this looks like a ticket. I, and other people, think that Obama needs an older possibly gubernatorial person to balance his negatives but he may go the ...read more
The party's coming together. CNN has confirmed that former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards will endorse Barack Obama at a Michigan campaign event about an hour from now. ...read more
I like where its going (and it features his good speaking style) but it's kind of abrupt at the end. ...read more
I don't know what Senator John Edwards' campaign is waiting for, exactly. ...read more
Ok, assume that Danny Glover hasn't been running around kissy-face with people like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, pretend that didn't happen. What, if any, ground is to be gained for John Edwards hanging around with the star of Operation Dumbo Drop? ...read more
Edwards makes it clear that the Republican candidates are just the latest incarnation of George W. Bush. "If Mayor Giuliani believes that what President Bush has done is good, and wants to embrace it and run a campaign for the Presidency saying, 'I will give you four more years ...read more
The Edwards campaign, again, shows a stunning lack of coordination and discipline. Just real sloppy, guys. Keep it up and Senator Clinton's team will have you for lunch. ...read more
Sen. Edwards is talking about this idea of mandatory service. It is stupid. It is nonsense. The idea of American freedom is about the freedom to perform national service or not. I like that there are programs like Americorps or the military around, but the idea is to make it so ...read more
From Hotline: Why did John Edwards not disclose his Fortress salary until today? That's three weeks of bad Iowa stories, a George S. grilling, and lots of other unnecessary guff? Just for $479K? The Edwards campaign seems to me to make some silly amateur hour mistakes that you ...read more
Yeah, I don't understand how they're supposed to be automatically evil. ...read more
Maureen Dowd may be a horrible columnist (and she is, I can never understand WTF she's saying behind all that cutesy talk) but the Edwards campaign basically handed her and the right a gimme. ...read more
Why am I just hearing about this? For as many as 50 million Americans, the IRS gets all the information it needs to calculate taxes from employers and financial institutions. As part of Edwards' plan, the IRS would calculate the tax bill and mail it to them on a Form 1, where ...read more
Best wishes go out for Mrs. Edwards and Sen. Edwards. I've personally met the both of them and can testify that they are genuinely warm and great folks. The news they announced today was sad, but they both faced it with characteristic strength. ...read more
Amen to her Although her words did not hurt us, they may have hurt some in the gay community. We are all sick and tired of anyone supporting or applauding or introducing hate words into the national dialogue, tired of people thinking that words that cause others pain are fair ...read more
