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• Monday, February 19, 2007 01:42 PM

  I was with you until you wrote the review

  I like Pandagon and visit it nearly everyday. I love the witty matching of photos to stories. I like your Friday Random Ten. I like so much about your blogging and think I would like you if we ever met, so it pains me to say that I think you were in the wrong. Not as far in the wrong as the hatemongers sending you threatening emails or as wrong as Bill Donahoe, but still in the wrong.

  If you work for a campaign, you have to think about the good of the campaign and you did not when you went back to personal blogging and wrote that review. That was wrong.

  Edwards made a miscalculation in hiring you. You are an inflammatory writer and I like that, but a campaign is not about being inflammatory. It's about being inspiring. Still, I was glad he stuck with you. But your misjudgment in posting that review after the first brouhaha deserved, in my opinion, your firing. That you resigned is good. It was not a fight worth fighting because you were wrong to continue personal blogging while a campaign staffer. This is a presidential campaign, not the campaign for student body president. The level of scrutiny is intense and you endangered the campaign with your self-indulgence.

  Don't get me wrong. I will still read your blog with delight and still think you're a great political commentator, but I also know that no campaign should hire someone known for their inflammatory rhetoric.

  —RuthAlice Read RuthAlice's other letters
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