Rosenberg talks the talk, but these four sentences that you see if you try and post a comment on
SimonforChair Blog indicate that he doesn't get it:
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He is censoring comments and closing down an open dialog. Even with Matt Stoller, a leader in the fight for transparancy running his blog, Simon has chosen to close his comments. If he can shut down Matt Stoller what makes us think he won't do the same as chair? This action concerns me.
Which makes me take a hard look at the NDN site. Despite their claims of understanding the netroots there is not a single netroots tool on their site aside from two blogs.
I guess my concern is this. He is for the netroots, yet he edits his comments and has almost no ways for the netroots to get involved in the NDN endorsed campaigns in 2004. (Even the The hispanic project does not even have hispanic language site)
I think that we need to take a harder look at people. I want Rosenberg before some other candidates (cough Roemer cough), but what exactly makes him better than Fowler or Webb as our second choice?