re: the Marcotte and McEwan issue
I am a voter who is astonished at your choice to hire and retain Ms Marcotte and Ms McEwan.
In your statement, you wrote,
they have both assured me that it was never their intention to malign anyone's faith....
Then what precisely was their intention? Phrases such as "Christofascist wingnut" and "Protestant anti-choice assholes", characterizing a church's entire body of doctrine as "misogyny" and ridiculing the Third Person of the Triune God as "hot, wet, and sticky"....
If, with these words, they did not intend to malign Catholic and Protestant Christianity, these women are pretty inept communicators. Your putting them in charge of official campaign communications leads me to have serious concerns about the judgment of a President Edwards.
If they did intend to malign "someone's" faith, which seems more probable... well, of course they are entitled to say what they like. And I am entitled to draw my own conclusion, which is that the Edwards campaign doesn't think hate speech targeting Christians is a big deal.
I am a voter, and I am Catholic. I wanted to give the Democratic Party a fair shake in '08 and see if there was room in the party for people like me.
I've just gotten my answer. Maybe we can try again in '12.
