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| John Edwards, Phony |
| 2007-02-09 |
| Let me be clear. My typing may not be the greatest. I may use the odd run-on sentence. But I am 52 years old and have been voting Democratic since 1976 when first I voted. I have a vested interest . The interactive nature of the internet is truly extraordinary and while I am not following the contours of this premature campaign as closely as I might But candidate Edwards has interested me since '04. I would have voted for him, had he been on the primary ballot in my state. I voted Kerry in some large part due to the presence of Sen. Edwards . So.... I am really disssapointed today. I have a flirting relationship with the blogosphere and it came to my attention today that there was some bruhah about Sen. Edwards campaign.on the Michelle Malkin site. I read her column which was 99% blog entries of one of the subjects of the bruhaha. Malkin made a few snide comments and conveniently provided the original web address of the inflamatory blog posts. So I clicked in. I found three or four basic types of post. There were the "look at my cats posts" pathetic stuff and I love cats. There were her music and video posts which seem to be oriented to some kind of neurotic test, guage or ideal that she feeels she must meet in order to attain some experience , that as a music lover, escapes me. It's some kind of compulsive list thing. The third and by far most passionate posts were her "Men are oppressing me" posts which can take a wide variety. These are insulting to men and the relationship between men and women. Her passionate hypocrisy ( and there is a great deal of that) is only mitigated by the though that it seems that for this poor specimen of womanhood, feminism can only be experienced as a pathology. The fourth is where she makes up funny names for the president. I wouldn't even read a jot if this person wrote about foreign affairs. Her constant foul language and obvious stance of persecution are offensive whomever she thinks that she is skewering, and I am no prude in the foul language department. The idea that no one on John Edwards staff can understand that things you write on the internet are on the internet, is flabbergasting. On the other hand, maybe the staffers knew the writings and find them agreeable to them. I don't know. I just know that such people will be your filter to the intenet community ad the "face" they see in dealing with your site. I registered and logged in to your site to post a comment, as a potential Edwards voter, that the public face might be better served by one who is more amenable to men as people and the other party as Americans, and Americans in general as fellow humans. Not some manic depressive cat-fetishist who is also a hostile pathological victim regardless of her actual status. So I wrote a paragraph. The paragraph was removed very quickly. My words were removed from the thread and I don't appreciate it. Your protection of advocacy, free speech and dissenting opinions runs one way, and senator Edwards has been seduced into this way, into this mindset f the people that tried to do in Lieberman. I am logged in to your site. My posting is blocked. To be banned in one post from this kind of site is unacceptable . My deleted post and blocked access are a direct renunciation of all the freedoms that all the good people are espousing. I realize now that it certainly wasn't my words, since much worse sets of words by common standards survive the edwards blog editing process. As I was making sure that my post has been deleted I came across this for instance: "This cunt is Daddy's property and he won't have some hooligan scuff it up for some silly reason like his daughter wants it. Even though the wingnuts haven't progressed to men paying brideprices (or at least I hope they haven't), fatherhood is still constructed as a sort of pimphood. "Respect" for women isn't constructed as anything close to viewing women as full human beings with agency. You're still an item to be bought and sold, but Daddy respects you enough to keep you locked up and "pure" so that he can sell you unused to the worthiest bidder." This is a quote, I guess from Pandagon. Nice. So it isn't the words it's what I said. You all make the same mistake again. It is all on the internet . I fully intend to make this an issue in every forum available to me. As much as I a had the potential and intent to become an Edwards supporter ( and I did), I shall now be actyively campaigning against him Good job KosKids. See you at the polls, if you show up ( we all know that they don't so that is a mistake too) Love, Jim |
| Posted by:J.D. Lux |
| #4 I have been laying low here and LGF and trying to work, but this thing got to me. Do I have to say that RAntburgers are the friendliest bloggers I know ? Thank you Fred or whomever. So they wrote me back and I answered. For your edification: On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:25 AM, David Pierucci wrote: Hi James, Thanks for writing in about this. About your blog post, neither Senator Edwards nor his staff is responsible for dropping blog entries. Entries are voted on by users and are dropped if they receive enough down votes. If you'd prefer to write something that people don't vote on, please submit a diary, instead of an entry. Thanks, David Hi David, I appreciate your taking the time to write back but you are wrong. #1 My entry had 2 positive votes, and was deleted within 20 minutes. Entries with higher negative numbers survive, so what you have said is evidently not true. #2 My posting priveleges have been blocked since that moment. I am logged in. The reply fields are missing and any move i make says log in. Then it says I am logged in already, but there is not one part of being a logged in user that is accessable to me. Not a post, not a reply, not a diary. That after one post and 20 minutes. It does not speak well of your inclusiveness, and despite your attempt to push it off on the other bloggers, it is apparent that someone put hands on my account specifically. Thank you Jim |
| Posted by: J.D. Lux 2007-02-09 18:58 |
| #3 That sorta sums it up, JD. Draw a line through Edwards ! |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-02-09 13:16 |
| #2 Whew! It's a good thing you found Rantburg, J.D. Lux! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-02-09 12:25 |
| #1 Well said, sir. Whatever defects in your typing, the ideas shine through. (This is in contrast to Amanda Marcotte, for whom the defects in her ideas overwhelm her typing skills.) |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-02-09 12:24 |