I'm perfectly aware that the world absolutely doesn't need another Edwards blogger flap post, but there are some personal things that I wanted to say.
I spent a lot of this week feeling sick whenever I thought about politics. I've always been a big fan of Melissa and Amanda, and to see them working for John Edwards was a dream come true. To have this end largely because of violent threats from the same kinds of people who blow up abortion clinics was incredibly depressing. (Chris Bowers wrote an excellent post making exactly this point.) Feminist bloggers have to deal with some really horrible stuff that the rest of us don't.
But I felt better after reading Amanda's Salon piece -- not because of anything in particular that she said, but just because it's good to see her moving forward. And I'm proud to say, with so many others, that I am Spartacus. It's hard for me to see any harm to Edwards from this mess -- unlike Democrats before, he didn't back down against Donahue, which showed a lot of bloggers what he was made of, and they like him better for it. And so it's time for me to shrug at the past and move on.
