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Why I had to quit the John Edwards campaign

During my brief tenure as blogmaster for a Democratic presidential contender, I experienced the right-wing smear machine firsthand

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  • Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:29 PM

    love or confusion?

    This blogger seems to be confused about the nature of the internet versus the nature of our political system.

    The internet is not hierarchical.

    Our political system is.

    This blogger is horrified, horrified that when she crawls into the hierarchy, however naively, she must start defending the labels she so glibly pasted, and the witty crap (and from reading it, typically self-involved, labeled crap) that amused her inculcated network of friends around her particular blogocircle or blogoline or blogopoint.

    It was a blogopoint, appropriately and easily sullied by noise.

    Amanda is a political dilettante without sufficient education in our political system trying, in a vain and silly way to make a difference by generating a huge amount of repetitive noise, much like the folks that annoy her.

    Amanda, you might try talking about yourself less and about people more. Trying to be a better person and not just a harpie.

    Just a thought.

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