Reply #161: A very good and thoughtful post, Exiled. [View All]

[SeattleGirl]

I just read it over my lunch break, and need to get back to work, but I wanted to say that I agree with a lot of what you said in your OP. I sometimes get tired of so many thread being about who should/shouldn't run in '08, people beating each other up because one person refuses to "convert" to the other person's preferred candidate, etc. (I don't read a lot of those threads, and I certainly am not saying people should not be allowed to post them.) But there are a lot of important things that aren't being talked about as much as I would like to see them talked about. I've read threads started by people on some of the issues you bring up, and yeah, they often sink like stones. I often comment on them, recommend them, kick them, but still, I blink and they have already sunk to the next page.

I hope you do post more about these things, and share your information with us. I know that for me, DU has been a font of information that I would only much later see in the MSM, or sometimes, not see at all. I appreciate it when people provide this information, because I have learned so much. I won't stop reading DU, but I will more actively search for these types of posts. Sometimes there are so many posts of the same flavor that I feel impatient or discouraged, or whatever.

Again, thanks for your post.