Reply #16: Looks like this part worked out just the way he wanted it to [View All]

[Jai4WKC08]

From the Newsweek excerpt in the OP:

Last week he declined calls to dismiss campaign bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan, amid allegations they were antireligion. "The first response normally would have been to listen to these Beltway actors who were saying, 'Clearly, you have to fire these people'," says Jonathan Singer, a blogger for the liberal site MyDD. "He has some spine."

But to win the Democratic nomination, Edwards needs cash as much as he needs resolve...

Both Marcotte and McEwan are gone, so Donahue and the religious right are appeased, but people who get their news from the corporate media (i.e. most of them) will never know that. Instead, they'll think Edwards acted decisively and stood up for his staff members.