Getting Desperate

Apparently, John Edwards one note song (Two Americas) is losing what little traction it ever had and now he's sinking into depths he considered off limits - the exploitation of his own son's death. And why not? He has never shown the slightest compuncton about exploiting the death of other people's children, a list that now includes Casey Sheehan, whose mother continues to act as Michael Moore's handpuppet by denigrating her fallen son's service and sacrifice to his country.

"Throughout his campaign for president and then vice president in 2004, former Sen.
John Edwards of North Carolina made it clear that the death of his teenage son in a car accident was off-limits, not for discussion in a political context.

But now his wife, Elizabeth, has sent an e-mail to supporters voicing a connection she shares with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. As Sheehan was camped near President Bush's Texas ranch, protesting the war, Edwards called on her own family's backers to support Sheehan."