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First Presidential 08 Opinion Post
Pam of Pam's House Blend explains clearly and succinctly why Edwards has plummeted in my opinon from "likely to get my vote" to "wouldn't piss on that man if he were on fire."
You can pick your stupidities. Was he:
1) Too damn dumb to vet blogs before he hires the bloggers?
2) Too politically naive to realize that whoever he hired would be personally attacked?
2a) Too politically naive to know what to do when the Swift Boating hit his campaign... again?
3) Too ball-less to stand up for his own decision to hire people?
4) Too weak to protect his own people from the inevitable attacks?
Any way you slice it, someone who rolls and shows his soft underbelly at the first serious campaign mudslinging and then throws his people to the wolves to make the wolves leave him alone is unfit to lead and defend the citizens of this (or any) country.
In the meantime, there's a whiny piece in the Post about Michelle Malkin that talks of her part in the blogger harassment as "She helped lead the charge against two liberal bloggers who resigned under pressure from John Edwards's presidential campaign" while avoiding the death threats levied against them and unironically pointing out that Malkin herself has moved to avoid harassment at her home.
(That the "two liberal bloggers" might have to move for the same reason is not discussed in the rush to condemn the vicious members of the "moonbat left." That Malkin has published the personal contact information of her enemies does get a one-line mention and her rebuttal without any evidence that the Post reporter actually looked to see if her claims were true... or mentioning what she told her minions to do with the information she provided.)
You can pick your stupidities. Was he:
1) Too damn dumb to vet blogs before he hires the bloggers?
2) Too politically naive to realize that whoever he hired would be personally attacked?
2a) Too politically naive to know what to do when the Swift Boating hit his campaign... again?
3) Too ball-less to stand up for his own decision to hire people?
4) Too weak to protect his own people from the inevitable attacks?
Any way you slice it, someone who rolls and shows his soft underbelly at the first serious campaign mudslinging and then throws his people to the wolves to make the wolves leave him alone is unfit to lead and defend the citizens of this (or any) country.
In the meantime, there's a whiny piece in the Post about Michelle Malkin that talks of her part in the blogger harassment as "She helped lead the charge against two liberal bloggers who resigned under pressure from John Edwards's presidential campaign" while avoiding the death threats levied against them and unironically pointing out that Malkin herself has moved to avoid harassment at her home.
(That the "two liberal bloggers" might have to move for the same reason is not discussed in the rush to condemn the vicious members of the "moonbat left." That Malkin has published the personal contact information of her enemies does get a one-line mention and her rebuttal without any evidence that the Post reporter actually looked to see if her claims were true... or mentioning what she told her minions to do with the information she provided.)
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Guess it's time to start more closely examining my vague gut-level Hillary misgivings, and balance them against the vast swathes of uncharted territory in Obama-land. Love the guy to death, but I still think he let himself get talked into jumping the gun. Running for president is a full-time job, no matter what one's intentions, and I'd really rather he finished ONE term as my senator before taking it on. *sigh* So Edwards was way up there for me too.
There have to be SOMEBODY who can figure out the difference between centrism and pandering, dammit!
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Well, it sure ain't McCain, Lieberman, or Edwards!