Updated: John Edwards campaign deciding fate of bloggers

If John Edwards stands any chance of becoming the next president of the US he's going to endure -- with grace -- a boatload of abuse, manipulation, lies, character assassination, dirty campaigning and poking at soft spots.

Each decision speaks volumes about his campaign.

Having hired two smart and witty bloggers, Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon and Melissa McEwan of Shakespeare's Sister (and PEEK), the campaign has signed on two extensively archived critics who've drawn fire immediately.

And Spring follows Winter.

The first issue arose earlier in the week when the National Journal's Danny Glover (no relation) blogged about Marcotte's archives having been erased. It turned out to be just a technical problem -- something he would've known had he actually asked her about it. Glover was forced to issue an addendum which effectively nullified most of his post and he did apologize in the end, to his credit.

Now the Jew-hating Republican partisan president of the Catholic League, William Donahue, has a problem with the two bloggers working for a Democrat. Donahue is an unabashed partisan who told Kerry-voting Catholics that they were "cooperating with evil." Who gives a flying fuck what he thinks? D'oh! I can't blog for a Democratic presidential candidate without incurring the wrath of Republican pit bulls anymore.... damn.

Silly, right? Somehow the point has yet to be made clearly enough to Democrats so I'll make it here: