David Gregory: Edwards affair "creates another shadow over Barack Obama"

By GottaLaff

Josh Marshall:

David Gregory speculates that the Edwards' affair may be bad news for Obama. I have a very hard time seeing how Edwards' affair reflects on Obama. What I do know is that this is another of those cases where there is a tacit but uniform agreement among pretty much all reporters and close campaign watchers not to publicly state the obvious: that this is a perilous development for John McCain. Just as Bill Clinton's public undressing in the Lewinsky scandal led indirectly to the exposure of several high-profile Republican affairs, Edwards' revelation will inevitably put pressure on the press in general to scrutinize John McCain under something more searching than the JFK rules they've applied to date.

This is what we've been saying, too. It opens the door for reporters to ask more questions of McAdulterer, if they decide to shake off all that POW adulation.

Then again, in J Sid's case (per Rachel Maddow's fill-in radio host David Bender), the press thinks it's all hunky-dory, because he married his mistress. That cleanses him somehow. Nancy Reagan and I would disagree.