It's because for the most part, the folks at Corrente have devolved into barking loons who now have no problem intimating the Democratic candidate they don't support is a bit like Hitler (the links are to a post and a comment by Corrente Senior Fellows)
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My comment was truncated by Haloscan, so I've posted it on my old blog:
http://vastleft.blogspot.com/
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...I really can't understand the hate speech directed at both by their partisans in the bloggersphere (y!pctp!). Corrente was the first high-profile blog that added me (back when it was just me) to their blogroll, and then gave me front-page posting privileges, and I have never forgotten that. I have personal relationships with several of the front-pagers, and while I hadn't checked in there lately, I was shocked to find this...
Following that statement comes the first of two excerpts from my blog posts.
Steve, thanks for the attention. As I've hung up my political-blogging shoes, it's nice to be remembered, albeit ambivalently.
You start from the perspective that the two candidates aren't all that different. On several dimensions, such as voting records, I agree with you. On framing -- on which I place a premium, given the president's role as an opinion-shaper, especially with the urgent need and (now, sadly, lost) opportunity to repudiate the Reagan Revolution -- and campaign tactics, not so much.
Seems to me that you're so convinced that the candidates couldn't possibly be importantly different that you don't consider the underlying issues -- generously linked and documented -- behind my passion. Further, it's so beyond the pale for me to consider/criticize such things that you've labeled my writing "hate speech."
Do me a favor, if you would. Get out a magnifying glass and a fine-tooth comb and show me the "hate speech" in that excerpt.
Oh, God, I just re-read it, and I see that toward the end, I wax ironic about the Obama camp's destruction of two fellow Democrats by framing them as racists. My shame will be my undoing! Is there a program somewhere I can check myself into to cure me of my benighted aversion to slander and the trivializing of racial issues? Stop me before I hate again!
Bien, c'est la vie, for reasons I describe below.
I, too, was an Edwards supporter who was cut loose when JRE folded his tent... one week before I went to the polls.
As I looked back on what I'd learned from the campaign, it was evident that Obama was incredibly far from "asking for my vote," as I noted in the post that singed your eyebrows. And Hillary was arcing leftward, reinvigorating her "It Takes a Village" populism. Thus, it wasn't that hard for me to re-affiliate, even though Gore or Edwards would have been my clear preference.
Regardless of how it played out, I wasn't going to waver on my pledge to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate in November. I never have before, and I certainly wasn't going to start now, in the wake of the ruin the Repubs have wrought upon our country these many years and decades.
I will say, however, that no Demo
SteveAudio said "Perhaps my co-bloggers here or commenters can enlighten me."
Nope, I can't explain it, and I covered it previously here.
But it sure repeats saying.
Nice job!
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