tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034285474210314097.post-43743801302109749392008-05-24T16:33:00.002-05:002008-05-24T17:05:19.258-05:00The other posters at Dakota Women have recently felt the need to distance themselves from my posts about the primary. I don't feel that any of them were unreasonable, but it's possible I could be wrong. With that in mind, I'm going to stop posting here and take a long break from the local blog world. <br /><br />Something about this primary season is really ugly and scary to me. I'm proud of my involvement in Hillary Clinton's campaign, because I think she's far and away the best candidate for president. However, I think those of us who are partisans on either side get caught in this weird echo chamber, and more than a few of us (I include myself in this, and, frankly, I include Todd Epp) are getting a little crazy. <br /><br />This is something I've been considering for a long time. I haven't lived in South Dakota since August of 2007 and I don't know that I'll probably ever live there again - or, at least, I won't live there in the near future. So I also think it's best to turn this over to women who are actually in South Dakota and are able to offer a better perspective than I can regarding what's going on with women in the state. <br /><br />I'm really not attempting to throw myself a pity party, so I'll stop here, but I did think that I owed people an explanation. <br /><br />I now leave it to the rest of you to argue with Ken Blanchard.Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701924315897238428noreply@blogger.com