Trippi’d Out

AT the Jasper County Democratic Party Banquet, the evening’s entertainment—in the loosest sense of that word-is a man in a black-sequined suit and cowboy hat trying to wing it through “My Way.”

Minutes before, one of the event organizers explained to a reporter that John Edwards had become the keynote speaker by default. The Jasper County Democrats had invited all the major candidates to this little palmetto hamlet, and Edwards was the first to reply.