Yesterday (Wednesday) the Chapel Hill campaign HQ of John Edwards was shut down by someone who mailed a envelope filled with an undetermined white powder to them. Everyone, including the staffer who opened the envelope, appears to be healthy, and federal investigators are looking into it.
Now, I watched Olbermann last night, and I listened to a fair chunk of Morning Edition this morning. I've also checked CNN.com this morning. The story appears in none of those places. My question is why the HELL isn't this national news?
Imagine how quickly the virtual presses would be stopped if terrorists (or at least wannabe terrorists) had shut down a republican candidate's offices. Or for that matter, Obama's or Hillary's campaign office.
Yes, I know this sort of thing happens fairly often, but it is, by definition, terrorism, and it could have endangered the lives of lot of people and changed the course of a presidential election. Pardon me for believing this is a big deal.
If this has been diaried before here I'll pull mine, but I haven't seen it.