In any case, I actually agree with Marlowe (first time for everything, lol) that Edwards should have been a little more selective, since every word that bloggers representing presidential candidates write will be hashed and rehashed 24/7 on cable.

I doubt there exists a right-wing blog as stark raving as Pandagon.

Komrad Marlow Are you now a paid shill for the other side, have you turned into a Capitalist dog?
As Carp mentioned above, I suggest you look up Little Debbie Schussel for someone on the Darkside, she replaces Catholics with Arabs, enjoy.

But there’s no doubt that the movie’s producer had a political agenda that required substantial changes from the novel. He completely twisted it’s message of where redemption comes from.

I would have preferred something that was more true to P D James’ work, but I enjoyed the film for what it was. Especially liked hearing “Court of the Crimson King” as part of the score…it’s been ages since I’ve heard that song.

I especially like that it doesn’t answer all the background questions, and instead focuses on the here and now of the characters.

but her critics only quoted her writing, which beyond being foul is so childish, self-absorbed, bigoted, bitter and illogical.

Welcome to the real world Marcotte where in order to be respected you need to act like an adult.
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The title loudly proclaims the movie to be about the Children of Men (very patriarchal sounding), but the one child in the movie is born to a woman who is dismissive of the idea that the identity of the father is even relevant

Yeah, why should those pesky fathers be relevant at all?? LOL

There are equally vicious and flame-throwing bloggers on both side of the aisle. Hopefully, this will help ensure that they remain where they should be in the political process, on the sidelines, not part of an official campaign, if we are at all serious about wanting less vitriolic and incendiary campaigning to occur.

Hahahahahahaha… listen, I’m not a fan of Amanda at all — I filtered her ut of my Pandagon reading, and never went back to it when Jesse left, but one of the bloggers prominently criticizing her was DAN RIEHL, who’s crazier by an order of magnitude.

After gloating over media stories reporting her firing, Amanda Marcotte ahs now announced that she has quit the Edwards campaign. I’m very familiar with these "resignations" that come amidst political scandal. I was once fired from a job aft…

This is the first of what I believe will be many examples during this season of the fringe elements from each party demanding that candidates must prove themselves to be aligned with them in some way. Hopefully this will continue to result in disaster for the candidates who choose to do so, and we’ll end up with more moderate candidates in the general election.

It would be one thing for a candidate of either party to use the blogosphere or talk radio to get a message out, but it’s completely another thing for them to hire someone who represents this form of media to represent one’s campaign. In other words, Democratic candidates can grant interviews to blogger-journalists or submit guest posts, and Republican candidates can go on talk radio shows. These activities aren’t an endorsement of the host/blogger, they’re just ways to use the media to speak to a particular part of one’s constituency. Going on a right wing talk show is different than hiring a right wing radio show host for a communications position in one’s campaign, and the same goes for left wing bloggers.

Just when it mattered least, Amanda Marcotte resigned from the John Edwards campaign: I was hired by the Edwards campaign for the skills and talents I bring to the table, and my willingness to work hard for whatÂ’s right. Unfortunately,……

I would suspect he didn’t. This is a typical vetting problem.

Consider a dreary, consistent theme of the early days of every new administration, where a proposed cabinet member is found to have an illegal maid/nanny, or is not paying social security.

If vetting breaks down at the Cabinet level, why not at the blogger level?

If President-elect Clinton can toss over a cabinet-level appointee who is a potential embarrassment, why can’t candidate Edwards toss a blogger who is a much greater potential embarrassment?

Exactly! Even though her resignation story sounds genuine, this still looks as if the Edwards campaign surrendered to right wing extremists Donohue and Malkin. It will be impossible to get rid of rumours her decision was strongarmed by campaign consultants. This makes the Edwards’ camp look like spineless wussies.

Exactly and it seems to me that this is exactly what happened. Why would she issue an apology first … and resign later if not for giving in to outside pressure? She should have stuck to her guns: apologize and ignore.

Marlowe:
Sure, she is harsh, blunt and her style is not my style BUT… Edwards knew this when he hired her.