I'm interning at a law firm as a clerk, and John Edwards should certainly know better than this. I've been pulling files for panel orders all summer - 5 figure suits which will likely be settled - and even those cases take several months to a few years, simply because of all the paperwork. Preparing an airtight federal indictment case with 11 charges is certainly going to take a while, John - implying that Bush is dragging his heels for a former contributor is ludicrous, slanderous, and an outright lie.
The Kerry campaign must have poll-tested this attack on Enron. Otherwise it is just stupid. I don't believe the media will give them a pass on this one. It takes years to set up a case like this against a principal of a corporation. An analogy was the HUD scandal years ago, when the special prosecutor started with underlings and worked his way up the chain, or even the Watergate investigation. I assume the Bush campaign is just setting up Edwards on this one and waiting until either the debate with Cheney or some other opportune moment to nail him with the truth. But I hope they do not wait that long.