This Is Gonna Get Tougher And Tougher... Soon...

[WillyT]

This:

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Living with THIS:

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Just gimmee some truth...

:shrug:

[dweller]

1. IBTL

:popcorn:

dp

[tnlefty]

2. You'll figure it out or work it out!

I remember being in a minority, despising Zell Miller, well before it was "cool" to do so.

And, yes, even though I live in TN I do come here to see what's going on in other parts of the country, and to get a break! :hi:

[WillyT]

4. You Come HERE To Get A Break ???

Where do you normally spend your time... Brittany Spears' nanny???

:rofl::hi::rofl:

[tnlefty]

9. Not everyone lives in CA. I don't know anything about Ms. Spears'

nanny, nor do I care. Yes, I do come here to get perspectives from fellow citizens, and thanks for the insult.

[WillyT]

11. Oh tn... I Was Just Foolin Around...

No insult intended, what so ever.

:loveya:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. DU is a walk in the park for me

You have no how idea carefully I have to word an essay to get a LTTE published that still conveys my point. And that's in a real newspaper, not an internet forum.

I still try, and I refuse to give up.

It can get frustrating, but I believe that what I have to say is worth the extra effort.

[Catherine Vincent]

3. In other words....

be nice. :)

[pinto]

5. (With my mod hat on) The key is constructive criticism.

Democratic Underground is *not* affiliated with the party, and comments here are not representative of the party or its candidates. It's a simple disclaimer.

And, yes, we don't permit advocating for candidates who are opposing Democrats in a general election. It's called Democratic Underground for a pretty obvious reason.

Democratic primaries are another matter. This is our big ballgame, as a party and as a diverse group of citizen politicos - across the Democratic spectrum - with a vested interest in political outcomes.

We encourage civility in our discourse, consideration in our disagreements and an eye on the prize.

(Mod hat off)

[WillyT]

6. I Agree With All That...

But when you are a life-long, continually voting, DEMOCRAT, as I am, and when your party seems to be making all the wrong moves...

I don't get to call them a bunch of doody-headed nincompoops???

That's just not right.

I think I've earned it.

Not constructive mind you, but earned.

:shrug:

[lligrd]

7. Nice Response - Thanks For The Clarification nt

[tkmorris]

15. I REALLY wish y'all enforced that civility clause better

Especially in GDP. It's a sad place in there.

[babylonsister]

8. Whoa. Me, too. I've posted stuff that's disappeared, and I don't know

why. Not knowing sucks more than knowing.

Make up your minds!

[WillyT]

10. I Know... I Love The Mods, And That Job Ain't Easy, But...

Sometimes a really cool, or thought provoking thread gets locked with a verse from one of the ten commandments, and ya sit there wondering what ya did wrong.

4. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Well there goes photo-shopping!

Maybe we should have a DU Thunderdome.

The mods move a questionable post to the dome, we duke it out, and if it survives, it gets a set of wings.

:shrug:

[babylonsister]

14. I have my own issues, and it's not I/P, 9./11, it's one woman.

Yes, the dreaded 'CINDY SHEEHAN'. I've had so many threads deleted for no reason that has been explained to me.
WHY is she a bad person, besides her recent turn on taking on Pelosi?
As with everything, why not leave a thread up there for info? Especially the ones I post that don't mention another party? I'm not getting it, and think some mods might use their emotions amd DU powers, which is why I haven't been a mod. :hi:

[pinto]

13. As always, refer here:

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and

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If that doesn't clarify a question, please feel free to contact one of Democratic Underground's Administrators:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/contact.html

(on edit) That's what we do. We're members too.

[babylonsister]

16. Can you at least let us know when something is 'disappeared', pinto?

That just bugs me... I have tried to communicate with mods occasionally, and never got a response.