This thread may not go well.. but it has to be said...

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90. Bless you

Gee, I am sure posting a lot (for me) lately.

Peacetrain, you have hit the nail on the head for me.

I have been wondering lately, why a derogatory word toward a candidate (doesn't bother me, even if used toward me...I am one of those people with a swear-word arsenal!!!) bears more weight than the seemingly endless diatribes against certain groups...think southern, red state, etc. I fit into several of these groups and I can't understand why no one understands that we are on the same side. Y'all don't need my support?

I left one liberal site because the cliques had taken over, and was so happy to find DU, where I could get the REAL news and read the interesting comments posted by members. Talk about deja vu all over again.

I don't post new threads at all (why bother, no one will see it) and I leave comments rarely, because I prefer to lurk. This is my information site.

I am glad for the camaraderie (sp?) between members. I am too paranoid to post much information about myself...same reason I NEVER get on FB...besides I doubt anyone cares. If this seems distant and cold, I am sorry, but there are too many ways to find out who someone is, where they live, where they work and I like my privacy.

Like Peacetrain, I don't have time to get into a keyboard war with anyone, once again, I am sorry, but I have LOTS to do, and that makes me happy.

One last thing, my husband is a member of a reenactors group. He likes the time period and the way people got along back then (not me...modern woman). However, some of these people in his group believe that, if he is in that group that they must all hold the same ideas near and dear. He doesn't. One time I DID get into a keyboard war with a guy was when he kept sending us anti-Obama propaganda and my husband had asked him to stop (my husband's acquaintance, let him do it). Well, here came another one. I emailed the guy and reminded him that my husband had asked him to stop. He replied that he didn't know it was MY computer. I told him that yes, women were allowed to buy computers and even to teach their big, manly husband to use them. He emailed back that his wife didn't like the way I had talked to him...is that hilarious, or what? The point is that, even if we are all in the same political boat or hobby group, or whatever, that there are always shades of gray...very little is totally black and white. We are ALL different and we ALL have different opinions and that is a good thing.

Thanks, again, Peacetrain.