They are doing all they can to take the campaign for the highest office in the land down the lowest possible road.

--John Edwards last night

Oh, John, surely that's an exaggeration, isn't it?

U.S. Sen. Trent Lott today told an enthusiastic Neshoba County Fair crowd that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry is “a French-speaking socialist from Boston, Massaschusetts, who is more liberal than Ted Kennedy.”

--Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi

Nope, guess not.