John Edwards has accepted the resignation of liberal blogger, Amanda Marcotte, central player, along with Melissa McEwan of Shakespeare's Sister, in the netroots drama surrounding the former senator's campaign. Writing on her blog today, Marcotte criticizes Catholic League president, Bill Donohue, for driving her out of the campaign.
She writes:
"If I can’t do the job I was hired to do because Bill Donohue doesn’t have anything better to do with his time than harass me, then I won’t do it."
She continues:
[Bill Donohue is a] right wing lackey whose entire job is to create non-controversies in order to derail liberal politics.
Marcotte is fuming and rightfully so. And, don't get me wrong, I completely agree with the right wing lackey comment and that clearly Donohue has nothing better to do with his time, but hey, what about Edwards? Marcotte makes no mention of how his campaign handled the situation (poorly if you ask me). Maybe criticism of the former senator will follow or maybe the blog-girl signed on to the campaign because she truly believes in the guy and isn't interested in a few parting jabs. I say jab away, Amanda. Not only did Edwards not stand up for his liberal outreach team, he publicly condemned their blogging and made them grovel for an apology from right-wing fanatics.
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Arkansas House Rejects Thomas Paine
A lot of conservative spokespeople like to say that America's founders were Christian, when, in fact, most of them were not. Members of the Arkansas state House of Representatives now know that Thomas Paine was not a Christian: A proposal to commemorate January 29 as "Thomas Paine Day" failed because of concerns about Paine's criticism of Christianity.
Paine, the author of "Common Sense," was a deist. Arkansas state representative Sid Rosenbaum presented to the legislature Paine's book, The Age of Reason, as "anti-Christian" and "anti-Jewish." As a result of this characterization, the proposal to create "Thomas Paine Day" failed to pass the Arkansas House. Only six more votes are needed, however, and the proposal's sponsor, Rep. Lindsley Smith, plans to introduce it again.
Said Paine in The Age of Reason:
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.(source:www.motherjones.com)
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