Yet I don’t remember you. How odd.

She’d been friendly up until then. We’d talked on the phone a few times.

I never knew you were upset, though, just thought you moved on to start up this enterprise. Bri felt personally betrayed and horribly hurt, that I know for sure.

I did everything short of mailing him cookies to get him to calm down, but he wouldn’t let up, so I left. I felt personally betrayed and horribly hurt, because I had liked Bri a lot.

Re judging trees by their fruit, that doesn’t mean going by voters, but by their most ardent followers. Most voters aren’t supporters. I think if you look at any group of followers it tells you a lot about the quality of the leader.

I never knew you were upset, though, just thought you moved on to start up this enterprise. Bri felt personally betrayed and horribly hurt, that I know for sure.

“I do judge trees by their fruit.”

I never do; people support candidates because of their own mixed bag of needs, stated and unstated, acknowledged and unacknowledged. But I agree that most voters do so judge. Soft sell works best, always.

I don’t understand why so-called Liberals don’t think liberals should think for themselves.

My distancing from Kucinich — whom I like overall, actually — has more to do with his history and some of his behavior when he was running for president. The brainless robots who supported him were what made me give him a closer look, however. I do judge trees by their fruit.

FYI I don’t “hate” Hugo Chavez. I’m happy with him as long as the people of Venezuela are happy with him. But if you don’t understand why the photo of Chavez and Sheehan diluted Sheehan’s value as an antiwar symbol, then you must be utterly oblivious to the practical realities of politics. I suspect you are the kind of impractical flake that has helped keep liberalism marginalized lo these many years.

IMO Cynthia McKinney is a mixed bag. Most of the time I don’t mind her, but sometimes she’s a bit of a loose cannon.

Kos and Aravosis hate Cynthia McKinney choosing to believe the lies told about them by the extremist right-wing rather than look at her record of being a tiny minority of actual progressive voting.

In this post Maha distances hirself from Kucinich, another of a tiny minority of actual Democrats, simply due to the rude behavior of some of his followers.

And finally, Maha finishes off with another baffling comment, Cindy Sheehan is diminished for appearing with Chavez. Huh?

Why do the so-called liberal blogs hate Chavez? When one hears the reality of what he’s accomplished in the 8 years he’s been continually elected to office, how can anyone (other than the extremely wealthy and powerful) NOT like his policies?

So I guess I sum it up with a question: Why are the liberal blogs NOT supporting real liberals, but supporting the moderate Republicans (like Reid and Pelosi and Clinton) that make up the vast majority of the Democratic party?