An Open Letter to DU. Re: Primaries.

[ElboRuum]

I have, as they say, "had it" with the incessant attack-counterattack bullshit going on around here. And yes, it is bullshit. Some of the posts I've seen of late denigrating candidates and their supporters on both sides do, IN FACT, look like they've taken a scenic trip of a ruminant's digestive tract. To those who have ranted and screeded and engaged people in polemics bereft of anything except finger pointing and facile arguments over "my candidate's better than your candidate, nyah nyah", I am not at all interested in anything further you may have to say. I am not moved by your lame catcalling oppositions nor do I agree with your methods.

Moreover, I doubt I'm the only one who feels this way.

Both Obama and Hillary are not everything I'd ever hoped for in a candidate, and they never will be, but I've been on this earth long enough to understand the benefit of circumspection and reasoned opinion, and I'm not some easily-led cementheaded idiot likely to be swayed to take a side in what amounts to a schoolyard fistfight between Obama's and Hillary's "supporters".

Haven't you made whatever point you were trying to make by now?

We get it. You hate Candidate Whozits and you think Candidate Whozits supporters are daft idiots bent on crushing the spirit of America. Candidate Whozits is Gozer the Gozerian and all who support Candidate Whozits are nothing but minions, partying with the Destroyer. "Have you met Zuul? Yes, she's dating Vins Clortho at the moment. Can I get you a drink? Oh, and let me introduce the Voldraani. Watch out for these guys... they're crazy!"

Candidate Whozits voted for impaling babies on spikes.
Candidate Whozits is a secret lobbyist for the Illuminati.
Candidate Whozits wants all of us to sever our arm at the elbow and donate our forearms to a pear orchard to stimulate the economy.
Candidate Whozits wants to replace all of our transportation infrastructure with elevated highways constructed solely from Pez.
Candidate Whozits wants us to trade in our blood for transmission fluid and honey.

Yes, as you've stated time and time again, Candidate Whozits is a viscous bile spewed forth from the depths of Hades, 'cross the river Styx, meant to enslave our souls and possess our bodies.

Now, did you have something else, or were you quite finished? You do have something else? Well, I'd listen, only recess is over, and I'm trying to get back to class.

[SteppingRazor]

1. Your Ghostbusters references are shamefully outdated and will never draw the youth vote.

:popcorn:

[ElboRuum]

3. I could never draw the youth vote...

...I never know whether to use a No. 2 pencil or a fountain pen.

[niyad]

4. and here I am, still using a stylus. how very modern of you!!

[SteppingRazor]

5. Ha! Touche.

:P


on edit: For what it's worth, I agree with you. It's gotten powerful dumb in GDP.

[Lerkfish]

2. no offense, as I've been guilty of this myself, but "open letters" often come off

as whiney and preachy.

sorry.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

7. Not As Bad As Whining And Preaching About The Whining And Preaching.

Nor as bad as whining and preaching about the whining and preaching towards whining and preaching...

Oh fuck. We're in an endless loop now. Fuckin OMC...

:yoiks:

[ElboRuum]

10. I detect a stack overflow in your near future...

...whoops. Geeked out pretty hard there, didn't I?

[Lerkfish]

15. well, you're the expert.

:)

[ElboRuum]

8. Don't be sorry.

Preachy? Yeah, perhaps... But if one of us must be a fuddy-duddy and point all this out like some curmudgeonly octogenarian yelling at the kids to get off his lawn, then so be it. I shall be that fuddy-duddy.

[pingzing58]

6. Hey, I like your open letter. Imagery is evocative. Ranting is good and I find it entertaining.

[Saturday]

9. Candidate Whozits for President!!! n/t

[apnu]

11. Fucking. Brilliant!

K&R!

[UALRBSofL]

12. Thanks for the open letter but it wont help

Because until the Obama supporters cease and desist there attacks on Clinton and her supporters there will never be peace on DU. I don't think Obama would approve of his supporters behavior. This is the problem on GD-P. As I said, thanks for starting this thread but it will go on deaf ears with the Obama supporters.

[grace0418]

13. As I posted this morning:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4694917&mesg_id=4694917

No, you are not the only one who feels this way. Great post! :hi:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

14. signed James

[SeattleGirl]

16. Bravo!!

:applause: :applause: :applause: