Kos...
...I'm begging and pleading you to step out from behind the Oz-ian curtain... to take a good look at the landscape of this web site... and maybe to make a comment or two, before we descend into a darkness that is the exact mirror image of The Free Republic and Little Green Footballs.
The low point here... after weeks of front page posturing... and stomping around... and keyboard-flexing... was the Obama affair, wherein a man we lauded and praised and campaigned for bothered to take a moment out of his time to call one as he saw it.
And what was our response?
We shat on him.
We told him where to stick his advice... we told him what we'd do if he crossed us again... we called him a charlatan and we branded him (with a brand you provided to us) a DLC sell-out.
We embarrassed ourselves by acting like... THEM.
Look, I'm not suggesting we have to praise Obama no matter what he says or does, but HE IS A United States SENATOR who knows a tad bit about what it's like in the US Senate and for reason I cannot explain -- a bunch of people who are starting to sound like the "82nd all-knowing desktops" -- went after him like a pack of wolves.
Want further proof of where we're headed?
GO READ THEM. Freeps. Goofballs. Want to know what they call the New York Times? The MSM media shill for the left. Want to know what we're starting to call the New York Times? The MSM media for the corporations. Want to know what they're calling CNN? The Communist New Network? Want to know what we're saying about CNN? We're talking about how nothing they say can be trusted because they're invested in George Bush succeeding. Speaking of George Bush... today... with this Supreme Court nomination... I could put up diary entries from here and there and I'm betting you couldn't tell who was who?
We are slowly morphing into the angry, win-at-all-costs, take-no-prisoners and ruin the country LEFT which -- to me -- is no better than the angry, win-at-all-costs, take-no-prisoners and ruin the country RIGHT.
This is not fighting them with their own weapons. This is becoming them without an understanding of the ultimate cost.
Now, I'm not asking you to censor, or even scold, but to take a moment each day for a week... on the front page... to reaffirm what I believe to be the goals of this very communal experience:
To make the world a better place by electing Democrats.
If I'm wrong correct me.
If the goal is to take down George Bush at all costs (including doing and saying things that hurt the country) tell me... if the goal is to get a lot of 4's or to have everyone subscribe to my diaries tell me... if the goal is to spend our time threatening other web sites and proving how big our collective penises and vaginal are tell me.
Cause I thought it was...
To make the world a better place by electing Democrats.
I know you are loath to MetaJesus... I know you believe in the Democratic experience and the blog policing it's own, but I believe this is a moment for a reset.
Please, if you got a second, restate why YOU BELIEVE, that we're all here.
Cause, if I remember correctly it was...
To make the world a better place by electing Democrats.