Wal-Mart and the Silky Pony.

And best of all, no one has to go to Wal-Mart!

Clearly, all this smacks of PR department propaganda. C'mon guys - I know you want to, but don't fall for this BS from Wal-Mart spin-doctors.

Careful, Strother. Your liberal Democrat tendencies are showing.

How could've Edwards lied here?

Ummm, he's an ambulance-chaser turned politician. How could he not lie? It's in his DNA. Besides, if you re-read what I actually wrote, you'll see that there was no accusation there.

Some volunteer staff member decided to call Wal-Mart about a Playstation for John's kid.

Uh huh. Have you ever noticed that nothing is ever Johnnie-boy's fault? Getting some volunteer staffer to fall on his sword seems always to be the way with these guys. I'll bet said staffer is still working there and probably sitting pretty just now.

Sounds believable.

Maybe to someone predisposed to believe, but not so much for the rest of us.

And not that I think you'd ever stretch the truth regarding a Democratic presidential contender, Steve, but do you care to name the last bald-faced lie from which Mr. Edwards skated off scot-free? I forget...

Well, let's see. First there were the repeated lies about his grilling Alan Greenspan in a Senate sub-committee hearing. Sadly for Johnnie, the hearings were televised and someone finally called him on it. Of course none of that ever came up during the presidential primaries. Seems the press was willing to give him a pass on that one. Then there were the "misdirections" about his vote on the partial-birth abortion ban. Seems his vote kind of got fuzzy depending on who he was talking to. The press never called him on that one either. Finally, I seem to recall he got caught embellishing his own biography with some crap about a parent working in a mill or something. Nope, no big deal as far as the press was concerned. Then again, he is a Democrat, isn't he?