First Presidential 08 Opinion Post

[neadods]

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.)

Comments

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

What, and the extremist left isn't exactly the same? Please. They mirror each other. And stuck in the middle are the folk who are just trying to get by and be reasonable on the merits of each case in point.

[merclibrarian.livejournal.com]

But the right is so much better at it. More practice, since they've been at it longer. Better organizational skills, too. One might even call it impressive.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

They do. I agree here, each fringe is full of whackos. But right now our government has little do do with the folk in the middle, and when it's the whackos who are taking away proper science education, and putting their morality in place of our health care, then it's time for the silent majority to stop being silent and start doing.

And it's not always going to be cast in sweet, proper language. It's amazing how hard it is to be ladylike when you've got someone telling you you can't have your share of the government pledge to life, liberty, and happiness because their beliefs are more important than your autonomy. (The line about Mary was part of a much larger article about the religiously-based suppression of women's rights, including our legal rights to sex ed, birth control, and abortion.)

Were it any other religion, the commentary would be just as nasty because it is not the belief, but the action that is so infuriating.