Yes, I was posting personally.
For the record, I don't think anyone is stupid or evil or anything for voting for the other side. Skewed by the propoganda, perhaps. There's so much of it around from all sides, and with so many channels and sites and everything, it's easy to get nothing but propoganda from one side. But I don't think that's all there is to it. I respect the rights of others to disagree, to have other views, and all that.
I do, however, feel very strongly about this election. About where policy in this country has been and where it needs to go. And I've seen a lot more from the right in this thread than the left.
As for the comment about the election scaring me... I was, in part, responding to this from Roger:
As for Obama, I find it appalling that a man campaigning for our defeat even has a chance of being elected to the presidency.
If anyone found my comment offensive, then consider how much more offensive that looks.
There have been a lot of things like that tossed around in this thread.
But... as strongly as I feel about this, as upsetting as I find some of what's been said... I should just go back to avoiding it. Even if it does mean letting this blow-up over lipstick and everything else go with one less voice to challenge it. Even if it does mean that much less support for what I believe in, and correspondingly that much more for what I believe would be disastrous.
I'm sorry I added more flames to the fire. It upsets me knowing the thread is here, filled with right-wing voices. It upsets me hearing about people who are avoiding the boards entirely because of things like this. But, clearly, it upsets me much more just seeing what some people are saying and claiming. And it truly upsets me to see this country going for four more years of what we've had for the last eight.
I disagree with the policies. I disagree with the slander. I disagree with the bickering over minutia. That doesn't mean anything about the people who hold those beliefs other than that I strongly disagree with them and their choices.
As for the mod's list emails... I'm sorry I missed them. I got the copy of the email I sent. I don't know why the others went astray.
Anyway... that's it from me.
Paul
