Edwards' Blog Saga, Vol. II

(AP)

Melissa McEwan, who says she was not hired by the Edwards' campaign as a blogger, but as a "part time technical advisor," has . (She was widely identified in the press as a blogger.) An announcement of her departure is on her personal blog: "This was a decision I made, with the campaign's reluctant support, because my remaining the focus of sustained ideological attacks was inevitably making me a liability to the campaign, and making me increasingly uncomfortable with my and my family's level of exposure."