I was actually planning on going to bed....and I'm sure many of you will comment that I should have, but the tone of the discussion on these blogs have gotten to the point where it's over the top. The divisiveness is not going to help anybody and only hurt what we're trying to accomplish in November.
I am an Obama supporter but don't think Hillary is Satan either. Sure the tactics that are currently coming out of the Clinton campaign are those of a campaign that is low on money and out of creative ideas. It's establishment politics and many would argue that HRC is doing what you do in a political campaign. After all, that Clinton machinery is what got a Democrat elected to two terms in the White House. Not something done for a while before that.
However just because passions are high and the campaigns are increasingly becoming more hostile shouldn't mean we, in the Daily Kos community, should take things to the personal level. We should debate and even have fun with it....but we also shouldn't make it such a hostile place that a supporter of one candidate feels compelled to leave and never come back.
I think there are legitimate arguments for both sides of the debate but sometimes I feel that many on DailyKos have drunken the sensational Political Talk Show Kool-Aid and the only way they can discuss and debate topics is through personal attacks, one-liners and "zingers".
We ask that the media clean things up and have more integrity...but if you read half the diary posts they look like segments on O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes etc...
I guess since everything is technically a diary, people can post what they feel is going on inside their brains....but I'd urge people next time they start writing a diary entry to think:
"What does this really accomplish?"
"How would somebody who doesn't agree with me feel after reading this?"
This primary is nearing it's end and shouldn't we start trying to find those things that we have in common so it makes it easier to all get back on the same team for November? :)
Just some late night thoughts I had....