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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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  • Monday, February 19, 2007 10:47 AM

    The problems is

    when you are a sensitive individual, people who lack a similar sensitivity can undermine your self-esteem. I have always been told by religious persons that their faith helps them to be a morally better individual. Obviously this catholic spokesperson spent his time learning something other than tolerance, compassion, and empathy.

    I've learned that ignoring bleating goats causes them to wander away to another pasture to graze. This is what should be done to those who aren't in the conversation to have an intellectual discourse because they don't really matter. It is all just inconsequential bleating from a fear-based belief system.

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