Comments for latetotheparty http://latetotheparty.wordpress.com Just another Wordpress.com weblog Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:15:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Ad hominem by Janine http://latetotheparty.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/ad-hominem/#comment-5 Janine Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:15:32 +0000 https://latetotheparty.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/ad-hominem/#comment-5 Hmm. It stripped out the href part of my link. Let's try it this way: http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/9/13/161622/096 Hmm. It stripped out the href part of my link. Let’s try it this way: http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/9/13/161622/096

]]> Comment on Ad hominem by Janine http://latetotheparty.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/ad-hominem/#comment-4 Janine Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:13:31 +0000 https://latetotheparty.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/ad-hominem/#comment-4 Yea, I have to agree. There's a <a>post</a> on MyDD today that calls NYT reporters "quite stupid". Now, I'm not sure that's totally untrue, but it's not at all helpful to be so antagonistic about it. If bloggers want to be taken seriously they need to acquire a bit more maturity. It's perfectly fine to call a particluar reporter stupid, if you have facts to back it up, but a blanket statement like that just begs to be lifted out of context. If nothing else it sticks in the back of the mind and eats away at the credibility of the person saying such things (it's the same poster in both your example and mine). Yea, I have to agree. There’s a post on MyDD today that calls NYT reporters “quite stupid”. Now, I’m not sure that’s totally untrue, but it’s not at all helpful to be so antagonistic about it. If bloggers want to be taken seriously they need to acquire a bit more maturity. It’s perfectly fine to call a particluar reporter stupid, if you have facts to back it up, but a blanket statement like that just begs to be lifted out of context. If nothing else it sticks in the back of the mind and eats away at the credibility of the person saying such things (it’s the same poster in both your example and mine).

]]> Comment on Bill Clinton is right… by latetotheparty http://latetotheparty.wordpress.com/2006/07/18/bill-clinton-is-right/#comment-3 latetotheparty Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:41:14 +0000 https://latetotheparty.wordpress.com/2006/07/18/bill-clinton-is-right/#comment-3 Agree with the goal, but not the execution. Gotta stop the crazy neocon right, yes. But "taking back the country" is exactly the wrong impulse-- if we were to do that, then they'd be after the crazy liberal left. It's not theirs now, any more than it was ours when Clinton was in. We have to find middle ground where everyone is equally dissatisfied and we actually get some things done. Campaigns like Lamont's demonstrate-- and tactics like the blackface photo today demonstrate -- that we're not any saner than the crazy neocon right. The way to fight fire is with water, not fire. Agree with the goal, but not the execution.
Gotta stop the crazy neocon right, yes. But “taking back the country” is exactly the wrong impulse– if we were to do that, then they’d be after the crazy liberal left. It’s not theirs now, any more than it was ours when Clinton was in. We have to find middle ground where everyone is equally dissatisfied and we actually get some things done.

Campaigns like Lamont’s demonstrate– and tactics like the blackface photo today demonstrate — that we’re not any saner than the crazy neocon right. The way to fight fire is with water, not fire.

]]> Comment on Bill Clinton is right… by am http://latetotheparty.wordpress.com/2006/07/18/bill-clinton-is-right/#comment-2 am Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:37:14 +0000 https://latetotheparty.wordpress.com/2006/07/18/bill-clinton-is-right/#comment-2 The issue here is that there <i>isn't</i> any difference between Joe and the Republicans, and it is time NOW to stop the slide to the crazy neocon right, the appeasement--the pretend bi-partisanship that has put us in this horrible mess. This puts all the dems who won't stand up to this crazy administration, on notice that the energized base will not take it anymore. We need to support and elect real dems, otherwise, we dont have any reason left to stay involved or to try to change things. This is how we are going to win and take back this country. The issue here is that there isn’t any difference between Joe and the Republicans, and it is time NOW to stop the slide to the crazy neocon right, the appeasement–the pretend bi-partisanship that has put us in this horrible mess. This puts all the dems who won’t stand up to this crazy administration, on notice that the energized base will not take it anymore. We need to support and elect real dems, otherwise, we dont have any reason left to stay involved or to try to change things.
This is how we are going to win and take back this country.

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