Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards jumped headlong into the "politics of planting," today.
His campaign just launched a hilariously silly new Web site that pokes fun at the recent news that staffers on rival Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign used a college student to plant questions at a town hall meeting in Iowa.
The site features a YouTube video, "Top 10 Questions Plants Should Never Ask Hillary," and a "Field Guide" for "Spotting a Hillary Plant."
"The new site will offer a one-stop shop for all Americans interested in growing the Hillary plant movement," deadpans a press release on Edwards’ site.
Update: Colin Delany visited the site Friday and discovers that there’s nothing there. I called the campaign up to find out what happened. A spokesman on in the press office said that he’d get back to me.
Update II: An Edwards staffer carried on with the groan-inducing puns on Monday. In a phone conversation, she said that the site was only meant to last for the duration of the Democratic presidential debate in Nevada. There was "too much gardening required," to maintain the site, she said.
