Someone is very, very afraid of John Edwards

...and no, I don't think it's Hillary Clinton's people, not when she is polling 20 points ahead of him and all the polls show that Edwards beats ALL the Republican candidates in head-to-head contests.

But someone is trying to send John Edwards a message:

Authorities disarmed a suspicious package addressed to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Thursday after the discovery of the package forced the evacuation of numerous businesses Thursday.

The incident marked the third time in recent months that authorities have responded to mail addressed to Edwards' office.

A FedEx envelope from out of state arrived in the mail at about 10 a.m. Thursday, and intermittent beeping could be heard from inside, police said.

Capt. Bob Overton of the Chapel Hill Police Department said he didn't know the contents of the package, but he said authorities deemed it suspicious.

The Durham County Sheriff's Office bomb squad was called in to assist in the investigation. Bomb squad members determined the package didn't pose a threat, but they used a high-powered water jet to disarm it.

"What they found were four watches that were beeping at about three-minute intervals," Interim Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran said. "There was also some literature in there."

It was later determined that the package contained between two and four wristwatches and some literature, police said. The FBI planned to examine the literature as part of its investigation, authorities said.

This is another clue that contrary to the wishes of the denizens of Wingnuttia, this is not a Clinton Plot(^®). "Literature" as part of a bomb threat is an earmark of Christofascist threats. This is now the third threat sent to Edwards' campaign headquarters.