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Blogging is like email writ large. One should never be surprised if messages thought at the time to be clever look quite different later. Memo to bloggers: just like everyone else, if you can't predict the future think twice about your behavior today. It can come back to haunt you. It can close doors.
I take note of Salon's comment policy, "Salon reserves the right to delete any letter at its discretion; for example, we may remove letters that are far off-topic or excessively rude, or that violate the law or common decency".
Would Salon allow a post that included the worst of your commentary? I doubt it.
In sum, your writings were vulgar, violative of common decency, nasty and wholly tasteless. Is it a wonder that a politician who wants to win would distance himself from your stuff?
Come clean, did you jump or were you pushed?