My partner's Grandma is prone to saying, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the pot." You get this vision of angry red purplie monsters running around in steamy boiling water. I imagine it's something like hell. On that note I say, "Welcome to Politics. "
John Edwards is running for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He has shifted his platform from a middle road self made worker's man in 2004 to Über Liberal, I'm the next Howard Dean. Apparently, the conservative right has some issues with his new friends. Notably in the news is his hiring of two bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen. Marcotte and McEwen are going to be coordinating Edwards' campaign blog and outreach to the blog community. So with super bloggers on his side Edward's probably thought he was off to a great start.
Da, Da, Don.........Just when Edwards' brilliant scheme to bring liberalism to all America was underway, Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League was outraged that a fine man like Edwards could hire two "foul-mouthed, anti-Catholic bigots." Donohue is demanding that Edwards fire these staffers for the remarks they have made about the Catholic Church and Its teachings on Marcottte and McEwen's personal blogs.
So you ask, other than the sensationalism of it all, why is this important? This is going to set the tone for Edwards with a segment of the Catholic Church. The alienation of middle America is about to begin. I think this is the begining of Edwards not getting the Democratic nomination because Edwards is going to get type cast as a rich lawyer Liberal. I do realize how petty it really is that Donohue is picking on Edwards because of what a couple pundits do on their own time. However, Edwards has done something truly remarkable for a politician in our day and age. He has actually not fired Marcotte and McEwen. I applaud this. This means that Edwards is really serious about digging in to capture the heart and soul of the Democratic party, the very liberal left.
The other thing about this story is more personal. Many people maintain blogs to publish their own ideas and opinion. These blogs are of a personal nature. Just because something can be accessed by everyone, does not mean that it is no longer of a personal nature. Whatever these two ladies have expressed in their own publications should have absolutely no bearing on their employment. Tolerance is obviously something that Bill Donohue is still working on. Strange that he is so demanding of it for his Church.
LastManOut
I had the ability to look up information on this topic, which stragely was not all published together in the original article.
The original news ariticle: Yahoo News
The Catholic League: http://www.catholicleague.org/
Amanda Marcotte's Blog: http://pandagon.net/
Melissa McEwen: http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/
John Edwards: http://johnedwards.com/
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