[mburbank]

Get ready for the funeral circus. Unless (and perhaps even if) her parents beg politicians to just stay away, it will be more widely attended than most state funerals. All the R's will show up and then the D's will feel like they'll look bad if they don't show, and of course the president will either go, or say he isn't going so as not to endanger others by his presence. It's going to be this years hot ticket.

I swear to god, between this and the Michael Jackson trial you have to dig five or six pages into the paper before you read anything.