manchicken here…

WARNING, since this is an editorial wrap-up, I will not be permitting comments to this post. My blog, I get the last say. Sorry trolls.

Well, today really surprised me. I expressed my opinion and a lot of real basket cases emerged from the wood-work. I really should have expected this sort of response from such a far-right fascist as Ron Paul, so I apologize to all of the folks who normally read my blog for inviting this sort of thing. I didn’t mean to cause such drama.

I also apologize for feeding the trolls and responding to the comments. I think for the most part we had some debate going, and that is good, but anybody who is going to argue against long-established constitutional amendments that protect something as essential and fundamental as citizenship really has no place in moderate society; so I apologize for bringing that here where folks are much more accustomed to sensible dialog about geek topics.

Unfortunately, however, I hope you all understand that I am a very politically opinionated person, and as such this blog will get more and more into this sort of thing as the 2008 election season comes upon us. Hopefully the debate will be more useful and respectful than this.

All-in-all, I think I’ve learned that I just shouldn’t respond to the comments of the kool-aid drinkers, and I cannot stress enough how sorry I am that I did respond. These people had no interest in honest debate, they only sought to bully me into accepting their position by implying that I was somehow stupid, illegal, socialist, or the classic communist. The evidence of this is even more apparent when you look at the comments that some of my diggs got. I sincerely hope that Ron Paul manages to wrangle his campaign supporters back in before they marginalize him any more than his dangerous policies already have.

Thanks everybody for reading and for commenting, I appreciate the dialog. I hope to be making some positive posts here soon about some candidates that I think are just swell… and maybe some more that I don’t think are so swell. Catch you later folks.

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