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| Another one bites the dust (an Official John Edwards Campaign Blogger, that is) |
| 2007-02-14 |
| Jim Geraghty, "The Hillary Spot," National Review Melissa McEwan, who blogged at ShakespeareÂ’s Sister has also departed EdwardsÂ’ campaign, resigning from her role as a technical adviser. She says this is not the back end of a deal from last week, and I suppose we should take her at her word, but what a surreal sequence of events. Judging from the reaction on the lefty blogs, I think yesterdayÂ’s suggestion* that this has been a lose-lose for Edwards is looking accurate. Is the lesson of this, "when your blogger embarrasses the campaign with controversial statements, fire them immediately"? Because if Edwards had done that last week, he would have made enemies among the netroots and perhaps won some respect from Catholic Democrats and folks tired of overheated rhetoric. And we would be talking about something different today. Instead, it's been a weeklong story, nobody's happy with him, and it's been a perfect drip-drip-drip narrative. Marcotte and McEwan couldn't even resign on the same day; now it's a story for another day. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 and as McEwan and Marcotte keep adding deranged and anti Catholic nonsense on their own blogs, some enterprizing reporter can ask Edwards, "Given the comment..., do you still believe their apologies were sincere?" |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-02-14 10:42 |
| #1 The issue isnÂ’t the technology; itÂ’s the temperament. Chipmunks on acid. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2007-02-14 10:33 |