Reply #28: I personally don't see anything wrong with advocating your candidate

[Ghost in the Machine]

on here. As a matter of fact, I look forward to it. I'm not sure whether many of you realize the impact you make, and the impressions you leave, on people like me. I'm a relative newcomer to the world of politics, and the information and education that I've gotten here is priceless. This is where I come for all of my news and information now.

Sure, I voted in the past, but it was just an errand to go do. Go down to the school, vote for the Democratic Presidential Candidate, leave.... repeat in 4 years.

The "nightmare decision 2000" really opened my eyes a little bit. When I first heard the name George W. Bush as a candidate, my first reaction was a feeling of horror. I can't explain it, as I had never even read anything about him, or about Poppy for that matter. I just somehow knew that Poppy was evil. Call it instinct, I don't know. The few times I did see or hear Gee DUHbya on the news, my thoughts were "lord, this guy is freakin' moron! He can't even string a coherent sentence together, there's NO WAY he'll ever win. What a DOOFUS!"

If I only knew then, what I know now....

The 9/11 attacks got me looking a little harder too. I'll have to admit that when I first heard about the towers being hit, my first thought was "what the hell has Bush gone and done now!?!" But that's a whole other story in itself.

This misadministration has been a drain on our Country physically, emotionally, mentally and financially. I urge you all to advocate your candidates. But please do so responsibly... and for the ones who don't agree with a certain candidate or poster, please try to remain civil and rational in your rebuttals of these candidates. You never know what kind of impression you will leave on a newbie who is still checking this forum out, deciding whether to join or not. If all they see is a bunch of in-fighting and Dem bashing, they're not going to want to stick around.