...they've been attacked for stuff that they wrote before they joined the campaign. Two thoughts:

1. Wait for the wave of "where the hell was Edwards' due diligence" stories coming on.

2. And people wonder why many of us, particularly those who have livelihoods dependent on people believing their subjective judgement worth money, stay anonymous.

"Political Islam is a dream or a nightmare, but not a sociological reality." - Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah

If Edwards is going to hire a blogger, shouldn't it be someone at least more sophisticated than Amanda Marcotte? She's kind of a joke (in my always humble opinion).

she was hired to coordinate outreach and manage edward's blog. or at least, that's how i understand things. frankly, i don't see how what she said is so important. if it is, then every single media outlet needs to fire about 1/3 of their staff, for linking, reporting, interviewing and associating with plain racists, bigots and sexists (and often worse than that) if it's not, which i really don't think it should be, there should be a discussion about the common sense reality in which people say and do things on their own time, and can still be loyal employees of those who have different opinions and views. last time i checked, very few of us were so pollyanna like that we've never cursed, made a bad/nasty joke, or otherwise said or done something that could be taken as offensive by some. this is your typical republican ploy: create a false standard, violate it blatantly, and turn up the noise machine demanding democrats answer "when they stopped beating their wives."

and it's just so sad edwards is falling for it. i expect it from the SCLM, but i'm starting to wonder why he hired bloggers in the first place, if not to ask them about how to deal with this kind of attack. are we really the only people in lefty american politics who know how to play hardball?