Der Parson's rant

John Edwards to quit presidential race - Yahoo! News:

"By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
DENVER - Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voters' sympathies, The Associated Press has learned."

Losing Ground In Iowa, Clinton Assails Obama - washingtonpost.com

Clinton, campaigning across Iowa on Sunday, appeared to be spoiling for a fight with her chief Democratic rival in national polls -- even at one point describing the battle as "fun."

"I have said for months that I would much rather be attacking Republicans, and attacking the problems of our country, because ultimately that's what I want to do as president. But I have been, for months, on the receiving end of rather consistent attacks. Well, now the fun part starts. We're into the last month, and we're going to start drawing the contrasts," she said.

That drew a swift rebuke from Obama. "This presidential campaign isn't about attacking people for fun, it's about solving people's problems, like ending this war and creating a universal health care system," he said in a statement. "Washington insiders might think throwing mud is fun, but the American people are looking for leadership that can unite this country around a common purpose."

“The Campaign Goes On”
John Edwards: “The Campaign Goes On”

Then of course, Fox attacks for it.

Democrat Taylor Marsh Broadcasts Live Talk Radio and Blogs Politics: "Fox Expects Edwards 'Sympathy Surge'"

Here is a pretty good response to that Coulter comment from the other day.

John Edwards 08 blog. It nice to see someone has a little more class.

I don't know if you been keeping up with the Edwards scandle thing going on about the bloggers. There is a story here Taylor Marsh. The one blogger Pandagon resigned, if you try and go to her site it just a supended message up.
She put some of the hate mail she has got from them types, and it's not very Christian, some of it is just very wrong. I really has me pissed off these people call themselves christians, they sound like Muslim extremist. It must help them sleep at night knowing they sent a nasty e-mail to someone. How can they belive that is what Jesus would do? Have they ever opened a Bible? The whole "let he that is without sin" story is a good example of what he would have said about this whole thing.

If possible I'm going to try and send Pandagon a nice e-mail letting her know not everyone out here is a insane nutjob. I have to wait until her site comes back to find her email address, if she even has it on there anymore.

A lot of stuff is still going on over John Edwards and his bloggers.

Aldon Hynes has a pretty good piece here, I am Amanda Marcotte and I am Amanda marcotte, Part 2. It's a interesting story to me especially dealing with how bloggers are treated.

There is also some more here on Taylor Marsh

I don't know too much about John Edwards, but after reading some news going around, it might be worth doing some research into. I guess there has been some trouble with some bloggers Pandagon and Shakespeare's sister. Here is a story from the NYT

Here is a clip of the news I read on one site.

John Edwards in News Feed of 2/08/2007 at 11:36 AM EST The tone and the sentiment of some of Amanda Marcotte's and Melissa McEwan's posts personally offended me. It's not how I talk to people, and it's not how I expect the people who work for me to talk to people. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but that kind of intolerant language will not be permitted from anyone on my campaign, whether it's intended as satire, humor, or anything else. But I also believe in giving everyone a fair shake. I've talked to Amanda and Melissa; they have both assured me that it was never their intention to malign anyone's faith, and I take them at their word. We're beginning a great debate about the future of our country, and we can't let it be hijacked. It will take discipline, focus, and courage to build the America we believe in.

There is a site
to help show your support and will e-mail a type of form e-mail to several MSM outlets that pretty much botched the story and do their best to make bloggers look bad.