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Not Just A Democrat Dirty Trick, But A Crime | Power Line: "Edwards is a former Obama staffer who directed “new media operations” for Obama in five states during the 2008 primaries. Thereafter, he was Obama’s Director of New Media for the State of Iowa. In the Democratic Party’s lexicon, “new media” apparently includes identity theft.

Edwards now works for LINK Strategies, a Democratic consulting firm with extraordinarily close ties to Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin. Its principal, Jeff Link, has served as Harkin’s campaign manager and chief of staff. Link, too, is a former Obama staffer. The LINK Strategies web site says that Jeff Link “served as a media consultant to the Obama for President Campaign, coordinating branding, all paid media and polling in 25 states, including seven battleground states (VA, NC, FL, CO, NM, NV, MT)….”

That Edwards allegedly tried to steal the Secretary of State’s identity in order to frame Schultz for “unethical behavior in office” is no coincidence. Iowa Democrats, as Kevin Hall of the Iowa Republican points out, have mounted a campaign of false accusations against Schultz"

Needless to say, if Nixon was president and Edward's was a Republican, this would be the only thing you would be hearing or reading about from the fifth column. As it is, my bet is you will never hear about it again and anyone who brings it up will get the same treatment that Edward's just happened to be caught at this time. So unfortunately Hinderaker is wrong when he closes the post this way:

Much like Watergate, which began with a seemingly simple (if puzzling) burglary and ultimately unraveled the Nixon administration, it is impossible to say how far the trail of criminality will go if the Edwards case is pursued aggressively. Will that happen? I don’t know; stay tuned.

But I wish we lived in a world where he was right.

You thought my recent post was over the top? Au contraire. And unfortunately this recent one will be buried also.

RTWT.