Betsy Ross: Given another article that came out today in the Observer: http://www.observer.com/2008/february-5-obama noting the paper's endorsement of Obama, I'm now wondering if there might have been an Obama mole instead. But the Edwards campaign mention that this was a bungled quote, with reference to a "bad game of telephone," sounds pretty convincing too. Third-hand quotes are notoriously unreliable.

I don't know that this is good for Edwards - he would be better off remaining entirely out of the fray.