As for Edwards, he looks irredeemably pathetic. There’s a simple reason for this - he is irredeemably pathetic. He hired someone who had no business being legitimated by a mainstream political campaign. He then bowed to pressure and fired her. He then bowed to pressure again and unfired her. And then he left the stage to let her resign. In the wake of all these stumbles and pratfalls, he looks like a careless fool. He also may have alienated the Fightin’ Nutroots to boot. Well played!

No matter what Edwards did, he was “bowing to pressure,” it seems.

This speaks of an enterprise that is having difficulty making good decisions in staffing, and an inability to make difficult decisions when required. It’s not a good omen for his camp. It’s early on in the campaign, so he could learn a lesson and move on, but there’s no doubt that he’s lost some Catholic voters on this one. This will die down in the early primaries, but in the general election if he gets the nomination Edwards could get hammered on it. I think he’s taking a long term strategic risk by keeping these employees on the payroll.

For democratic primary voters, they should ask themselves this: Would Clinton, Obama, Biden or the others have allowed this staffing issue into their campaigns? Would they have waivered or backtracked on the decision to terminate? Is this a sign of a weak executive? Difficult questions for them to consider.

On another hand, if you’re a foreign leader in an any manner of relationship with the U.S. (especially Korea, Iran, etc.) how do you read this one? How would you prepare to deal with this executive if he comes to power? You can bet these issues are being monitored by states the U.S. will negotiate with on issues from trade to weapons & warfare.

Lastly, I’m digging that our society puts these issues on the voters’ plates. They’re important for the electorate to consider as they decide on the next president.

But they got to talk some more trash about Edwards no matter what:

-Had he fired his bloggers, it would have showed he was an idiot who didn’t do his homework before hiring them in the first place, and that he was a weak sister who could be pushed around.

-But, having stood his ground against the kooky-cons, they’re now trying to spin it as weak Edwards caving in to the moonbat Libs. “He wants to stand up to North Korea and The Terrorists, and he can’t even stand up to Daily Kos and MyDD.com!!??!?”