I joined dailyKos exactly 10 years ago.
I have, per the Cromwellian phrasing, sat here far too long for any good that I have been doing, and it's time to move on.
Before shuffling off this orange coil, so as to get on with the business of living and working and accomplishing, I think perhaps a bit of a recap is warranted.
Ten days after joining (in those days, there was a "cooling off period" required before newbies could post), my first comment was a minor FYI item:
yes, i know it was a joke, (4.00)
but as i understand it, museums are just about the most popular cultural destinations in america, whether measured in total visits per annum, or measured by the fraction of the pop that makes at least one museum trip per year.
and that's my first-ever contribution to dk.
Later that day, my second comment argued that the nomination of John Kerry had been both repugnant and unwise -- incredibly, some folks were suggesting he run again in 2008.
Speaking of mistakes (0+ / 0-)
Has Kerry ever admitted that voting for the Patriot Act was a cowardly, craven, wrong thing to do?
He made a liar of me, because I swore I would never vote for anyone, for any office, who had voted for that travesty; but in 2004, the stakes were so high there was no room to stand on principle.
Every Senator (but one) in the chamber at that time, Republican and Democrat alike, disqualified himself or herself from consideration for public office, by dint of having put fear for one's own personal political future ahead of the integrity of the Constitution and the needs of the nation. Or, to be more charitable, for abandoning the responsibilities of the office in a panicky rush to do something. Anything. Cowards. Fools. Panicky fraidy cats, all of them.
Sorry Senator Kohl, I'll be looking for an alternative in '06. I'd rather vote for a libertarian than for you.
In any event, Senators don't become President unless they are running against another Senator, or unless they are John F. Kennedy. So Kerry should abandon fantasies of becoming the President.
Somewhat ironically, my recent diary on electability repudiates those last two sentences. My statement was (and is) statistically accurate, but as I have since argued, we have too few samples for meaningful statistical analysis of the patterns of successful and unsuccessful presidential campaigns, and arguing that any candidate is unelectable is either stupid or evil, and usually both.
Reviewing my first 50 comments, I can't say that I've learned a hell of a lot in the intervening decade, other than the dKos convention for indefinitely nesting threaded responses.
One last time, then, over, through, and past the delicate, tantalizing O'Keefean motif, into the warm sweet heart of the matter ...
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