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Weep not, Amanda, my child! Better days will come. You are young, you are feminist, you will survive even this outrageous turn of fortune!
Seems that those really at fault are the Edwards campaign folk who hired you.
A personal blog may certainly contain all the uncivil, attention-seeking verbal pyrotechnics its author chooses.
But a Presidential campaign, to be taken seriously, must operate in a much different place, a place where civil, measured discourse which seeks to bring clarity and illumination to positions and ideas must be the goal.
The type of blogging you've done, whether personal or otherwise, simply does make you a liability in the world of serious Presidential politics.
The Edwards campaign people were amazingly wrong not to see this before they ever offered you the job.
As a lifelong Democrat from California who likes Obama, I'd say just look on this, Amanda, as a
life experience that may help you mature.
