Amanda Marcotte has resigned as John Edwards’ blogger. As James points out, it is all over the blogsphere... My thoughts on the issue? Honestly?

It's why I dont blog much anymore... The blogsphere is full of hatred, pettiness and juvenile bullshit. The worst think that happened with the blogsphere, is that some people got famous, and that fame straight went to their heads (That is ghetto slang). Hehe.. And therein lies the difference... I never set out to be a blog celebrity. I started my blog originaly for my children, as they were in the United States while Dad toiled away founding a company in Costa RIca.
For a while, I got really hung up in the political battle. I made some friends, and made some enemies, but I had fun. My blogs popularity grew, I helped found a big bloggers alliance, and blog daddied a few progressive blogs. All in a Years work. But I never quite fell in with the Netroots crowd. Mostly a matter of choice, but also I suspect.... because a few of them were not quite ready to make room for another African American blogger to their little club.... Whatever...

Or maybe because I just wasnt LEFT enough. Dont know, don't care. There are few bloggers I TRULY respect, some of them are even on the Right. There is some discussing going on in a group I belong to related to my fraternity. The discussion was a positive one, directed at some major reforms in the fraternity. A few days ago, a brother appeared and posted a resolution to ban Gays from the fraternity. Suddenly, all the discussion about reforms went out the window and the entire focus is now on Gays in the Frat. Much of what passes for discourse in the blogsphere these days is just like that thread... A bunch of people making hay about nothing. Was Marcotte out of line in her comments about the Catholic Church? I will leave that to catholics to decide, an organization of which I am not a member, though my wife and kids are. But I will say this, her comments were no better or worse than a lot of the drivel I hear from the Right on a daily basis. The funny thing is that they seem to feel free to attack anyone, and any religion, as it suits them, but have little tolerance for anyone who does not march in lockstep. They also have a tendency to put "Thoughts in people's heads." I already made my Obama post for today, so I will leave it to Maestro John Cole to speak for me....

Pretty much. If you think, as I do, that this administration has bungled Iraq in every way possible, and that we are now in a chaotic situation in which the options range from awful to terrible, to state that we have wasted the lives of thousands of Americans, tens of thousands of Iraqis, and billions of billions of dollars should not only not be construed as a grievous assault on the sacrifice of our troops, but it should be self-evident.

So maybe that is Obama’s real sin- he stated the obvious, and the obvious is a threat to the political ambitions of the GOP and their blogosphere hacks/supporters. We have wasted a lot of lives and lot of money, and Barack is on the hot seat for stating that publicly.

Now I am going to get back to what is really important to me... Making money.

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