Over the past few weeks I have become incredibly aggravated by, and frustrated with, aggressively anti-candidate diaries.
And to be clear, I mean this towards all anti-candidate diaries. I think the anti-Obama diaries have been over the top, and the anti-Clinton diaries have been over-the-top, and the anti-everyone-but-my-candidate diaries in toto. And, even worse, I think this "I-know-you-are-but-what-amI" debate has sucked all the air out of discussing the candidates' stances and actions on the ISSUES - which in my opinion is a much, much more worthy area of discussion.
But I understand people want to express what they don't like and don't want candidates to do; and I get that it's primary season, and passions run high. So me asking for what I see as politeness, and people sticking to what I personally consider are the important issues, is both a waste of time and egomania on my part.
Therefore: how about a new tag, to be applied to anti-candidate diaries? Which those of us who don't want to see, can then have filtered out for us?
My definition of "anti-candidate diary" is also included, below the fold.
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