Usually, I love dailykos rhetorical carnage. It's why I find myself so often contributing to it when I think it's worthwhile. And in truth, debate is positive when it helps us improve our ideas, sharpen our arguments, share our insights. But sometimes there comes a point when you just see rage for its own sake, and incitement for its own sake, even among people of good intentions, and it just becomes obvious that perspective has been lost.
Recently, specifically, the sniping between Edwards and Obama camps has just begun to get out of hand, totally disproportionate both to the realities of the two candidates' political situations and to their actual campaigns' positions with respect to each other. Specifically, I am talking about (1) the Edwards supporters who equate Obama with Clinton, or worse; and (2) the Obama supporters who insist that Edwards should get out of the race immediately to give their preferred candidate a clear shot. Both the Edwards and the Obama supporters who engage in these lines of argument do their campaign a disservice.