Mike Huckabee is a douchetacular douchnozzle.

Unless someone wants to explain that copying about 80% of an article verbatim is not an issue in this diary

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/16/2042 0/3675

...my rec/rate ability PLEASE!!!

He's speaking at my NH Democratic State Convention.

If I have the chance I want to ask him...

I was a Deaniac in 2004.  A picture of you with my wife and daughter is on my refrigerator.

How can you allow the press to do to Hillary what they did to you?  Whether you favor her candidacy or not, you of all people, should be disgusted with the treatment.

Let us know what he says.

Todd, what's up with two diaries defending Bush today? Are they not getting reported?

One sure sign, Hillary has disappeared completely from the D-Kos Rec list.

Late last night I was reading a diary in which a poster was asking questions about why so many people left the large orange and I found myself writing a long answer, so I expanded it and spent the rest of the night getting it into the diary format and posting it. It created a modest discussion which I appreciated.  Never would have been that give and take on the large orange;it would have just been bombed and swamped.  That was the point of coming here.

I just looked back over some other diaries I had been reading and commenting on today.  Usually my comments get no rating or a 2 or a couple of 2s and none or a couple of replies.  Nothing much.  Suddenly today I found that my comments on other diaries had been troll rated 12 times and hidden once.  Once comment got 2 2s, 2 1s and a zero. jess81 trolled me 4 times, deano963 3 times, bottl4 twice and once each from spacemanspiff, auronrenouille and willis reed.  Don't know who the zero is from.

I make mistakes, of course, but I try for discourse and try not to be snippy or rude or profane, and I ,like many others here, have made an effort to raise issues and subjects that I think the party needs to be ready to deal with and tried to encourage us to be less pushing at each other and going for the snippy retort and more digging up and sharing research, and trying to encourage accuracy in the media and sharing with each other about those efforts and offering support to candidates all the way down ticket.

I noticed in several diaries that people who still make positive comments about Hillary or try to discuss negative aspects of Obama's candidacy and what might be done about it now and in the general, are subject to a lot of accusations of being Republican trolls and down rating. Disagreeing and arguing are how we learn and refine our understanding and action, but I'm not talking about discourse or frank discussion of problems that need solving. I mean dismissal and the absence of discourse.  Sniping, jabbing and breaking up the discussion.

We used to see a whole lot of that at the orange and it got really worse.  My question is what is the expectation of the owners here about interacting with and rating? And how are people who receive or give a lot of troll ratings effected in their standing with the site?  Some of the posters are promising that all the dems who want to stay with Hillary till there is a vote or someone concedes will be purged here.  And that people who find that they can't work for Senator Obama, and there are a lot of them here, but would like to work down ticket very hard to get the best and biggest majority in the state and federal legislatures against the feeling that McCain may win and we would be working through the Congress and State Houses to get progressive values expressed into policy and law. Some here think that the Senate is the best protection against bad Supreme Court choices, if we can get Senators to vote for fair judges instead of folding to the Pres.  Also a strong Congress (can't believe put those words together)feeling some progressive heat might be a lot of help to shore up an inexperienced president.

So are members of mydd welcome to stay here if they are not yet or ever enthusiastic about Senator Obama but very enthusiastic about working for progressive government, downticket races and  active encouragement of the Congress and media to forward progressive values?  

I have found that at certain times of the day that the number of provoking, angry, insulting comments, and the "ganging up on" and trollrating or hiding comments made by HRC supporters is really withering.  I am beginning to avoid mydd during these hours.

the nature of the criticisms, jokes, and snarky comments is deeply distressing.  No HRC supporter can put anything up on this site without the merciless troll rating and arguments.

I feel now like I felt about dkos, and I see a lot of dkossacks over here. I left kos before others did, and now I am distressed to see the same behavior here. Thoughtful well reasoned diaries are hijacked or the diarist insulted.

Thanks for listening.

Obama and the South:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/us/pol itics/16south.html?_r=1&partner=rssn yt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

The GOP is scared!  Very scared!  Hillary may own Appalachia, but Obama is going to make the GOP have to fight in the deep South.

I am a long-time lurker, rarely comment.  I am an Obama supporter in South Dakota.  I started at Dailykos and found my way over here from there.  I do find that at MyDD, there is often better discussion because we don't all agree.  I welcome that, but I do find that people are absolutely hateful to one another in their comments, and I don't get it.  Does anonymity give us the right to treat each other like shit? How will we win November with either of these candidates in the place we are now?

On a happier note, I was sitting in my yard talking to my neighbor today.  She is a 70 year old woman, devoutly Catholic.  She was weeding her garden and mentioned that she was just taking a break from her "Obama campaign." I was floored.  In South Dakota, any time you meet a democrat who wants to talk about it is a great day, and I don't expect to find many among my neighbors.  Here I have been sitting around watching MSNBC and reading blogs, and she's been making calls and canvassing the neighborhood. She got me off my butt and I've been making some calls.  So, thank you, Veronica, for you work to help elect a democrat.  What an inspiration!

Have you updated the delegate counter since WV?

Thanks!  

Recently recorded outside of a White House restroom.

I am a fan of funk and beautiful singing and killer guitar.  I hope that when all is said and done, we will be able to dance together on our way to the polls in November!

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