Ground Rules, Please Read!

Since the purpose of this Blog is to have a civil discussion regarding politics, a few ground rules should be set. Please make note of these rules before attempting to post a comment:

1. All comments are subject to review by both contributors (just like the nuclear launch, we both must turn our keys and there is no tiebreaker)

2. The best way to have your comment posted is to include substance and leave out inappropriate comments.

3. When commenting, please refrain from personal and partisan attacks; these will not be published

4. Keep it short- if you would like a response from either of us, simply post a question or at most a short paragraph.

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6. Comments may be longer if you are using quoted facts and citing them, but keep the true comment on the short side. As with any civil conversations, facts that are correctly cited carry much more weight. It's hard for either of us to deny a cited fact and not post it.

Also, if you read something that gets you fired up, that is great. Take a moment or day to breathe and then write out a well thought out comment. It will be much more likely to be published.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Deep Breaths

I can see people already getting overly anxious to talk about everything under the sun and even propose becoming a guest blogger - LOVE the enthusiasm. We will talk about every issue and if you want something specific to be discussed please let us know. I would encourage you to continue to post comments, input and challenge either side on what is being said, including what we post as fact. This is designed to be open forum, fact checking and healthy conversation. We hope you see that our goal here is to shed light on the issues instead of worrying about how many houses John McCain has, if Bristol Palin's child will be a boy or a girl, How black Obama is, and how Hillary Clinton feels about everything that is going on (Don't get me started on Matt Damon...). Point is, no one gives a rip. Save the drama for TMZ and let's get on with our lives. Sure we might joke about it from time to time but we are not going to obsess over pointless arguments that have nothing to do with each Candidates ability to be the next President. JB is right, if you only watch Hannity, O'Rielly and listen to Rush you will miss the point, just like if you only listen to Olberman, Matthews, Gibson, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC - hell if you turn the TV or Radio on at all, you will probably miss the point. I have never seen an election so distorted on the issues- BOTH sides have missed the boat on this. Unbiased media coverage is very hard to come by these days- We have the Internet, so we are going to talk about it.


Next up... It's the Economy, Stupid.

1 comment:

Kjays said...

Remember Olberman and Matthews were taken off the campaign coverage..can't keep their opinions to themselves!
Can someone tell me how paying more taxes makes me more patriotic?
Well put Mr. Red, each day that goes by this race becomes more and more important to have experience in the White House.