Reply #14: I'm sorry the incident hurt your feelings, Az, and I'm not speaking

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facetiously.

I also doubt very seriously that anyone in the Edwards HQ office intended to hurt anyone. We could examine the posted work of those two bloggers and make an evaluation of their tone and intent. When it comes to hurling invective, it seems to me that they could dish it out with the best of them.

Conjecture this or that as we may, the evidence as presented has the two of them resigning. We have to work with what's at hand.

Jimmy Carter fired Bella Abzug. Surely it did not win him cheers and hurrahs from pro-feminsts but I doubt very seriously that any of them abandoned him to vote for Ronald Reagan. It's a consideration in politics that we don't always get what we want, or exactly how we want it if we do.

With respect fully owed to you, I feel you are imposing your personal vision onto a circumstance which was never intended to accommodate it past the broader stroke of First Amendment protections. If I personally feel that Bill Donohue is a maniac, Bill Donohue is free to think the same of me. I very, very seriously doubt that anything Donohue has to say on the issues will significantly impact the 2008 election cycle. In less than a month's time, these two bloggers' experience this past week will fade. Democratic voters in those northwestern farm communities in Iowa are not going to endorse or reject Edwards' candidacy based on these bloggers.

Neither should we.