Comments on: Thirty Days Has September…

By: lildb

lildb — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:31:00 +0000

glad I didn't know that about you in July at the conference or I'd have talked not just your ear but YOUR ENTIRE HEAD AND FACE off with my political rants and expostulations that are generally immature and uninformed.

p.s. oh my god, TOTALLY. this is all so very true.

By: Mrs. Fussy Fussypants

Mrs. Fussy Fussypants — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:07:00 +0000

You are a political consultant. VERY COOL. How did I miss that.

By: Dorky Dad

Dorky Dad — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:48:00 +0000

That seems a little odd that they’re not at least paying attention to blogs — I can see why they don’t gather the information, because that’s difficult — but blogs have really had a major impact on the dissemination of information. I’m pretty sure that they read them, even if they say they don’t.

By: witchypoo

witchypoo — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:25:00 +0000

Do you know that Blogger/Google no longer lets you link to outside sites when you comment. You have to create a Blogger acount now. For what to do, check out Suburban Oblivion This is not my site, but I hate those word verification things on Blogger anyway. No linky love is just being mean of Google.

By: canape

canape — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:24:00 +0000

I add a foot stomp and an “amen” to this.

By: Lawyer Mama

Lawyer Mama — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:55:00 +0000

That would have pissed me off too. Some politicians do listen to bloggers. I got an email from Senator Dodd’s online outreach staffer after a blog post I wrote about him once.

And then there’s the whole John Edwards thing…. The politicians who want to know what people are thinking BEFORE it’s reported on CNN or Fox or in the Wall Street Journal read blogs. The ones who don’t, are making a serious mistake.

By: Gunfighter

Gunfighter — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:08:00 +0000

Don't buy it, ML!

Staffers and various political writers would have you believe that bloggers mean nothing... but they only want us to believe that because of their own agendas.

Bloggers are important to today's political discourse for any number of reasons... not least of which is that people with similar views are now in regular contact with those that they may never have casusally encountered becase of factors such as geographical seperation; race/class/ethnicity/gender; employement status.

People can communicate... and communication and the passage of information is what makes political movements.

I give you the case of Howard Dean. Dean would have made an excellent candidate against GWB, and likely would have whipped his ass. Unfortunately, Terry McAuliffe and the Clintons didn't want a maverick like Dean around, so they sandbagged him, and left us with a shite candidate like John Kerry... and you see what that got us.

Nothing.

Sorrt yo have gone on so long.

Cheers!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:20:00 +0000

Although I have been blogging for less than a year, and reading them just slightly longer (and not just mommy bloggers)you’d have to be living in a cave to not see the power and possibilities with blogging.

Be it advertising, collecting information, posting info … I’m shocked at the first panel dismissing those facts.