I can't believe I'm going to have to start avoiding this place already

[mrgorth]

The hatred and bile is already in full steam this far out and it looks like many of the posters I had to put on ignore back in '04 will have to go back there. It's very frustrating not to be able to get good info on the candidates, etc like we get from this forum without all the anger.:grr:

[Caoimhe]

1. It's always hard trying to cull the herd.. feelings get hurt..but--

A wise man once said

"If you and I agree on everything, one of us ain't thinking" (Bill Clinton)

[Red Zelda]

2. Anger?

It's the national pastime. Anyone who is not angry is not paying attention.

[Double T]

3. IGNORE the 'angerers', there is still plenty of GREAT CONTENT,.........

positions and views.

[Catchawave]

6. .....and DUers!

"Ignore" has been my friend too. And for the rest, "that which doth not kill me, makes me stronger" :toast:

[azurnoir]

4. I was not around in 2004

but I do not get all the venom either, there is a right wing noise machine ready and waiting to trash Dem candidates why make their job easier by doing it for them?

[maxsolomon]

5. we're a country in an illegal occupation

under an illegal president, killing tens of thousands a year, hobbling our economny for years to come while the future of the planet is in jeopardy.

meanwhile, our own party equivocates & fights amongst itself.

everyone here, EVERYONE, wants someone to stand up & tell america the hard truth - we're killing ourselves. when democratic candidates fail to meet that standard, anger results.

you can handle it, you're a big boy now.

[blm]

8. well said.....citizens have a duty to demand truth from their government just

as it is our government's duty to provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions.

We should LOATHE secrecy and privilege as our founders did, and even MORE than they since we have so much more hindsight to see how destructive secrecy and privilege will be to a democracy.

[redqueen]

7. ....

:pals:

Good luck...

[PhilipShore]

9. That is a excellent point...

I know for a fact -- I won't mention the person I had voted for in the past -- to keep your suggestion, that if I had information about them; I would never of voted for them. I know where I live -- I basically get no info about who I am voting for -- I walk in the booth having read 500 -- words -- on a glossy brochure.

Perhaps, if they had an area of DU where we could discuss the candidate's, just by calling them by number rather then name-- an discuss their ideas -- then the day before the election the names of the ones associated with that number are revealed, might work, but if not your point is an excellent one.

If we were not so harsh -- perhaps some that are running -- might even come here for a question an answer discussion.