Political advice: Don't hire a blogger

I'm sure you're all aware of the dust-up over Edward's hiring a couple bloggers for his campaign. My advice to all politicians is to not hire bloggers.

The site should be your voice. You don't need a blogger to create content.

What you need is a good web designer to set up your site and modify it as needed. You also need someone to post to the site. One or both people can surf blogs looking for posts that fit with your vision. They can then link to said posts with a disclaimer you embrace what is said in that post, but not necessarily any other post by that blogger.

The internet is world wide and, baring deletions, forever out there. I have fewer than 2,000 posts but wouldn't be able to scan every last one carefully to see if there's some sort of inflammatory content out there (there is in almost all my posts).

This is too bad. Most bloggers I know are passionate and could really use the money. There's also the prestige of working with/for a politician or a political candidate. But on balance its not a good idea to employ one.

All that said, I must defend Amanda. She's been an email friend and she's not any of the things the wingers have been accusing her of being. Well, except for the profanity thing, but fuck them if they can't handle it. Her resignation is, in my opinion, an example of her integrity and common sense although its also unfortunate.