Go to : http://www.ourcampaigns.com/... and read the revolting thread. Read the disdain, the arrogance, and the downright ignorant prattle that oozes forth in these posts like puss from a sore. These are people who do not know me and yet they type posts putting me down and talking about me like I am subhuman.
This has also gone into politics on a much larger level. Charges fly back and forth like mud so much that we no longer hear the good for our ears are caked with the mud.
And we wonder why Good People don't want to run for office.
I remember talking to a former State Senator who had served as a staff member in D.C. to a prominent U.S. Senator who had been widely talked about as a Presidential candidate but the Senator didn't run. Want to know why?
His son had experimented with marijuana and other drugs as a young guy. He didn't want to put his family through that ordeal. He didn't want to go through it especially. Now mind you the son is well-adjusted and a successful businessman today. But would the press have noted that much? Would Monday Morning Quarterbacks who have delusions of West Wing and think they are political geniuses like at this site OurCampaigns.com have noted that much?
You know Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bill Richardson, Bill Clinton, James Carville, David Paterson, and so many are not bad people. I am not a bad person. Try convincing people who don't know me but write the junk at OurCampaigns.com or Encyclopedia Dramatica differently. But is it so much easier to knock people down, to make fun of them, and even worse LIE about them and make a sport out of it then it is to look for the good in them?
Ancient Rome lost it's power and prestige when it lost its moral authority. When it became sport to see people die in the Colosseum. When it became not the protection of civilization but the mere conquest for more territory.
We as a nation invaded Iraq, a sovreign nation, something we never had done in our history till 2003. We also have these blogs and webpages where we gossip, we lie, and most of all it's become sport and fun to try to destroy another person. For you see someone's reputation and one's legacy is what lives on once they are mere dust and dirt.
I would like to be remembered as the first openly gay individual to run for a statewide office. I would like to be remembered for defeating cancer twice in my life. I would like to be remembered for the fraternity chapter I founded at my university, the grassroots efforts I helped form and lead to defeat a disastrous road bond and a legislative bill to deny parental rights to same-sex couples. All of this in a deep South state.
But because its fun to pick on someone and insult them, my legacy will be chained to OurCampaigns.com, where not a single person knows me, but they stalk me, lie about me, and try to make me appear to be this awful person.
We wonder why good politics is gone!