[Industrialblog,
February 13, 2007]
The Marcotte Affair Ends ... or does it?
Michelle Malkin has a nice round up of quotes from the sane side of the blogosphere about Amanda Marcotte's resignation from the John Edwards campaign.
One thing I'd add, as a professional editor used to assessing the writing skills of young writers: Amanda lacked confidence writing on Edwards' blog -- it was clear to me she was not used to writing in a professional style, and her writing there was far weaker than her "musings" on the Pandagon blog. That is, Amanda is inexperienced in working clean ... This is not to say she can't. She just can't -- yet. Her writing skills were nowhere near up to the challenge of the position. Now she can go back to her blog and swear and play the victim. It's what's she's good at.
Writing a blog under your own name is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you can make a name for yourself and get hired in high-profile job that you may never have had a shot at otherwise. On the other hand, you can make a name for yourself and get fired from that high-profile job. The blog giveth, the blog taketh away ...
One thing I'd add, as a professional editor used to assessing the writing skills of young writers: Amanda lacked confidence writing on Edwards' blog -- it was clear to me she was not used to writing in a professional style, and her writing there was far weaker than her "musings" on the Pandagon blog. That is, Amanda is inexperienced in working clean ... This is not to say she can't. She just can't -- yet. Her writing skills were nowhere near up to the challenge of the position. Now she can go back to her blog and swear and play the victim. It's what's she's good at.
Writing a blog under your own name is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you can make a name for yourself and get hired in high-profile job that you may never have had a shot at otherwise. On the other hand, you can make a name for yourself and get fired from that high-profile job. The blog giveth, the blog taketh away ...
I'm a little surprised Edwards is running again. Here's a guy who's a one-term senator, who as a VP candidate was unable to deliver his home state, and who campaigns as a quintessential limosine liberal. I mean, Edwards shouldn't be taken seriously -- and I don't. So perhaps he and Marcotte were a good pair.
I really think that this boil on the democratic party needs to be lanced, and I can't think of a better way than by running a campaign the way that they want to. You know, kind of having Kos run with Marcotte as his VP candidate. No punches pulled, no "I never meant for any of those racist assholes to get offended by the insults I wrote about them, and I regret it if they did" apologies. A real, full-on campaign based on ushering in the communist, "feminist", GLBT-ist, Al-Sharptonesque, government funded mandatory abortion-filled, atheistic utopia.
I think that it would do the country a world of good for that platform to be given a full chance to get 51% of the vote.