You think Chris Dodd wants some attention? He just threw a punch of a press release at John Edwards for not opposing the war enough.

At the center of the dispute is that Dodd wants the troops out within one year, but Edwards wants them out within eighteen months, which he derides as “incremental.”

They’re literally fighting over six months.

Here we see the fight-your-bigger-rivals dynamic at work. Dodd is lesser-known than Edwards, so he has something to gain by getting into a fight with him – the brawl elevates his profile. Meanwhile, Edwards sees himself as part of a “Big Three” – himself, Hillary and Obama – so he’ll want to ignore Dodd as much as possible.