How did you find Democratic Underground? Be honest.

[Hawkeye-X]

I found it back in 2002 or earlier (says I've been here since 2002...) through Will Pitt's post on Democrats.com, and I still have to thank Bob Fertik and David Lytel for giving me a solace after the stolen election of '00, and followed William Pitt into DU, and has been my home ever since then - I took a ban for breaking the rules during the '04 primaries/GE which I was reinstated shortly after the re-stolen election, and have been here since. I'm taking it easy this year - just going to support the eventual nominee whoever it may be, but Obama is my guy, and I will vote for Hillary in the GE if I have to.

Hawkeye-X

[slackmaster]

1. I originally came to respond to a challenge by an anti-gun wack job

Who has since been tombstoned.

[NightWatcher]

2. through numerous Thom Hartmann references

[LSparkle]

39. Me too ... or maybe it was Mike Malloy

Definitely through radio, though.

[civildisoBDence]

73. From a VERY angry Neal Boortz down here in Atlanta

I've been kicked off three times, btw, before hitting 1000 posts, but can't seem to stay away. (Got kicked off FreeRepublic twice, after my first posts...go figure.)

http://www.newsprism.wordpress.com">Newsprism

[kid a]

3. through the buzzflash link in 2003

:hi:

[Kaylee]

29. Me too!

Although until recently, I have been more of a lurker than a poster.

[Kukesa]

4. My daughter, VolcanoJen, insisted I give it a try. n/t

[Capn Sunshine]

13. ! Volcano Jen is an awesome and thoughtful poster

You must be a very proud parent. :hi:

[Kukesa]

37. I'm getting old and she's picking up my torch. Thanx. n/t

[xchrom]

17. you're volcanojen's mommy? -- how cool is that?

[Whisp]

82. hi Kukesa! you have a wonderful daughter.

I love reading her on the ground posts - very talented woman, and nice to boot!
:hug:

[xchrom]

5. i don't remember when it was -- but it was c-span.

they had -- i think -- it was skinner on.

so that's how.

[Debi]

6. During the 2003-04 primaries - somebody on Dean's blog linked to it

And I was hooked! :P

[BOSSHOG]

7. I believe

it was checking out top ten conservative idiots which I found n Buzzflash about 2002.

[Exilednight]

8. I use to be part of a website called Sheerprogress.com ....

it never really took off, but many of them also belonged to this site.

[LisaM]

9. I found it in early 2001, after the Selection

I was going through massive stress. I found it through democrats.com, also.

I liked it better then, because we were all united against a common foe. Now we're tearing apart each other. That is new, and I think it's even different from 2004.

[Hepburn]

10. Surfing the net and googling for "Bush is an asshole." n/t

[AtomicKitten]

Whilst in the midst of research, I stumbled upon this strange world of DU.

[thereismore]

11. I don't remember how, but it was during Kerry's campaign. nt

[lapfog_1]

12. Top Ten Conservative Idiots

Found them repeated somewhere, laughed so hard that I blew Pepsi out my nose... started doing web searches until I found the source. Been here ever since (4 years now).

[lumberjack_jeff]

25. Me too... that and Bob Beaudelang.

Been here since '03.

[unpossibles]

14. I was researching information on the stolen election of 2004

I saw the numbers change - I had a gig that night and remember being excited when going on stage, then confused at the drastic change an hour later which made no sense. The next morning, I started trying to find a screencap of the exit polls, etc., and found this site. I lurked for a few days before joining, I think.

[onehandle]

15. Through Bartcop's forum.

Myself and other Mods there gave DU's founders advice in the early days of 2001.

[IDemo]

16. It was mentioned on a "lifeboat" forum for survivors of johnkerry.com

A member there said she felt "like a fish in a barrel" over here. Pretty apt description.

[karynnj]

84. same here

I loved Johnkerry.com and was looking for a place afterwards. I first voted in 1972 - this was the elections that affected me the most. I still think that although it would have been incredibly difficult, he would now have had this country in a much better place. It is odd to think that he would now be running for what might be a tough re-election. I would hope that by know his real honesty and genuineness would have been seen by enough people to let him continue. One think he would likely have been trying to do was what he spoke of wanting himself and the other veterans to be part of doing in 1971 - turning American foreign policy in the right direction. Now, those hopes rest with Obama - and his vision.

[SoFlaJet]

18. I found it shortly after

the 2000 mess down here in Florida-my user name used to be Oustemnow and I'd be curious if anybody can tell me when I signed up with that user name. I think I changed it to SoFlaJet after one of our computers crashed in 2002

[BooScout]

19. I found it in 2002 or 2003....

A friend told me about it......I didn't post much at first because I had a Political Board of my own and that took up most of my internet time. At some point I lost my password and had to reregister in 2004.

[nedlogg]

20. The Hannity Forum

I kept hearing about the Commies, Leftists, and Traitors over at the DU.


I figured any place that is hated so much by the right wingers can't be all bad so I thought I'd have a look.

[high density]

21. Wes Clark group in summer 2003

Though I lurked here for a while before I signed up.

[publicatlarge]

74. Ditto. Through Wes Clark's forum in 2003. n/t

[underpants]

22. Slightly over seasoned but with a surprisingly tart aftertaste

Actually it was either Bob Boudelang or a Will Pitt post one or the other was posted over at the Free Republic (no kidding) so I started reading over here....was weary of "chat rooms" so stayed out of the forums.....slowly peaked inside...registered....waiting two months and then started posting.

The rest is history.

[nonconformist]

23. I think I was googling for sane people and found DU in 2002.

I lurked for months before I finally jumped in during the lead up to the Iraq war.

[John Q. Citizen]

24. I don't remember how, but it was during the 04 GE campaign. I missed the primaries,

but there was still a lot of discussion.

[SKKY]

26. A Marine Major turned me onto it...

..I worked for him for a brief time in 2002.

[ZombieHorde]

27. I saw it mentioned on a freeper website. nt

[niyad]

28. top 10 conservative idiots list, reposted somewhere else (forget where) WAYYYYYY

back in 2001. it has been my link to sanity ever since, living in one of the reddest counties in the nation.

[onenote]

30. top ten conservative idiots

Someone sent me, or I ran across, a link to the top ten conservative idiots list.

[Avalux]

31. I found it through my ex-husband.

A little late to the party but got here in early 2003. Have moderated a few times. :hi:

[easy_b94]

32. I was google-ing for thick bubble butts and I ran across DU...

[Speck Tater]

33. Via the old Dean-For-America forum. NT

[denem]

79. Ditto.

[OHdem10]

34. I heard about it around 2001 at Democrats. Com

[Arkansas Granny]

35. I kind of backed into it. I had googled something and wound up

at FR. I realized that it was no place for me. However, they were complaining about DU, so I figured I'd go check it out and here I am.

[Capn Sunshine]

36. If you recall Skinner and Earl held up a spray painted sheet at the inaugural in 2001

During the parade. It had

www.democraticunderground.com

on it.
Disgusted and depressed, I grabbed the nearest piece of paper - a cocktail napkin- and wrote it down, and tossed it in my desk drawer.

Fast forward to 9/11. I sensed the media was bullshitting like crazy- how could the FBI have the names and addresses of the hijackers a DAY later unless they were watching them, and if they were watching them, what happened to prevent them from stopping it? Where was Bush? Why was Cheney doing the talking? Etc.

I reached into my desk drawer for a pen to jot these questions down. There it was. www.DemocraticUnderground.com.

Et Viola; signed on in 9/2001 Under my old DARPANET code alias Lorelei. Before the transformation. I remember everyone in the lounge counting down trying to be the last post before "The Change"

[bicentennial_baby]

61. Ha! The countdown to DU v.2!

I remember that! :bounce:

[Chovexani]

83. Holy shit I remember that

Ah, the good old days. :rofl:

[marlakay]

38. Early 2004 Michael Moores website

had a link to here.

[hedgehog]

40. I found it at about 2AM during my lunch break one night when I

was searching for a result during the 2004 Primaries.

[slor]

41. I was actually convinced that...

my wife (girlfriend at the time) and I were a part of only a handful of people that were opposed to the chimp, then while on honeymoon in Key West, I saw Katrina Vanden Heuvel on Washington Journal, smacking right-wingers around left and right, and realized we were not alone. After a few internet searches, I found Buzzflash, which led me to DU.

[zonkers]

42. I used to visit TAP (American Prospect) message board which moved to World Crossing...

and then I ended up here. Anyone else have same experience?

[JimGinPA]

43. A Friend Told Me About It Right After The 2000 Selection

I checked LBN nearly every day for a couple years before I registerred, and even then I very rarely posted until this year.

[laconicsax]

44. I stumbled across it in late 2001.

I was looking something up on Google and one of the results was a thread. I then forgot about it for a while, rediscovered it, I lurked for a while, then joined in November 2002. I must have lurked for a long time after that since I can't find any record of me posting anything before mid 2003.

[rox63]

45. I found it during the 2004 campaign

From posts on the Kerry campaign's forum.

[shayes51]

46. My son told me about it.

[Adelante]

47. I was here pretty early on, maybe 2001

I wasn't very active, though, and drifted away. Then sometime early in the summer of 2003 I was waiting for Wes Clark to announce and I came back. But I had moved to a different state and I didn't remember what my login had been or even have the same email address, so I registered new as Jerseycoa at that time, and changed my screen name in 2004 with the same account. Still here regular.

[Shine]

48. I found it from an political astrology forum I read

called Astroworld. :thumbsup:

[jannyk]

49. A few days after the Frontline program titled 'The Plea'. I did

a google search hoping to find others as outraged as I over what had happened in Hearne, Tx and poor Erma Faye Stewart in particular.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plea/four/stewart.html

I ended up getting quite involved and had several telephone calls with Regina Kelly (one of the plaintiffs), Ofra Bikel (the producer), the probation officer involved, the local DA. After paying her fine and arrears, I got a letter from Erma Faye that I treasure.

I found a few related posts and sympathizers on DU and have been here since.

[Mz Pip]

50. 2001

shortly after the selection. There was a link at a website called Bushwatch to the Top Ten COnservative Idiots.

IT was pretty small back then and everyone was familiar with everyone else. I can't keep track of the 100,000 or so members on DU now.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[redqueen]

51. I followed NNadir here from Smirking Chimp.com

Back in 2003.

[Shakespeare]

52. Saw the banner in the crowd on TV on 1/20/01.

Lurked for about 10 days, then joined (under my original nick of Not_over_it) because a certain poster named lonster needed a serious throttling. He holds the distinction of being one of the first people ever banned on DU.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

53. from another website whose name I forget

It was basically a listing of all progressive sites, and I was going down the list. First link I clicked on was toostupidtobepresident.com, and DU was the next. Funny, I never went back to that site to look at anything else. (This was in January 2003, and I was looking for a place where I could talk about anti-war activities)

[AndyTiedye]

54. Googling for "Reichstag Fire" Shortly After 9/11

[ramapo]

55. Early on...don't remember exactly

Probably came over from democrats.com right around the coup.

[BridgeTheGap]

56. Too long ago to remember exactly...but glad to have found it! n.t

[Vinca]

57. I was a 2004 Kerry forum refugee. nt

[snooper2]

58. Was originally sucked in by MIHOP post 9/11

:)

Then leaned to LIHOP, then just pure incompetence...

[bicentennial_baby]

59. I think I'm the only DUer who can't remember!

:rofl: All I know, it was in late 2002/early 2003. I had a different name then though.

[4_TN_TITANS]

60. In the runups to 2004...

A link from one of the antiBush sites, SmirkingChimp maybe? When I saw my first Conservative Idiots list, I was permanently hooked. I hope the guys understand what a draw the Idiots List is to DU.

[Xithras]

62. Indirectly through Free Republic.

Back in the 90's I used to post on a board at a site focusing on green politics. (doesn't exist anymore). Toward the end of that sites run (following the 2000 sElection) we started engaging in sparring matches with Freepers on various environmental political topics, and I saw a mention of a "new" site (and it was a brand new site at the time) called DemocraticUnderground. As I recall, lots of people were drawing connections between the name DemocraticUnderground and the WeatherUnderground (aka the Weathermen, a 60's radical group that would be labeled as terrorist today). The discussions about this "new Democratic terrorist site" got my curiosity up enough to pay it a visit. I never left.

[RufusEarl]

63. I honestly can't remember, but once i found it i never left!

Peace!

[DinahMoeHum]

64. I found it in February 2002 following a link (can't recall from where)

and came across William Rivers Pitt's essay "Stand Your Ground"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/02/02_ground.html

Reading it gave me a jolt and shook me out of a morose sleepwalking mood I had been feeling since 9/11.

I was lurking around DU for a few weeks when came a thread about John Ashcroft singing Let The Eagle Soar in early March 2002. I laughed myself silly reading the comments, then kicked myself for not being able to get a word in myself.

Right then and there, I decided I was not going to miss out on the fun anymore, so I joined up and sent a few $$ to DU.

:kick:

[LibDemAlways]

65. I believe through a Buzzflash link.

After the 2000 selection I was searching for anti-Bush websites, came across Buzzflash first and that lead me to DU. I lurked a while in 2001 and then signed up later that year.

[THUNDER HANDS]

66. billoreilly-sucks.com

I think.

[Lucinda]

67. I'm pretty sure it came to me in a psychotic flash as I adjusted my tin foil hat

and surfed the web.

Yep. I think thats right. :thumbsup:

[Jersey Devil]

68. I had a flat on the NJ Turnpike and Skinner changed the tire for me

Actually, I think I found DU through the Bartcop Forum just after the MSNBC political forums closed down in December, 2001, but I really didn't post here until 2004

[nomorewhopper]

69. started coming maybe around 2002?

not sure, and went away a few times inbetween big elections. i recreate user names because i always forget my super complex passwords

a friend working for a campaign was using it, so i checked it out too.

[Emit]

70. '04 Election fraud

that's what brought me here

[Throd]

71. Rush Limbaugh

He was ranting about various websites so I naturally logged on to them to see what to hoo-hah was all about.

Thanks for the tip, you fascist feak!

[Blue_Tires]

72. bartcop

[tabasco]

97. Me too.

Clicked on the link from bartcop and never looked back!

[DavidDvorkin]

75. The voices in my head told me about it

Actually, I don't remember.

Or maybe the voices wiped out the memory.

[renegadesix]

76. The enemy of my enemy is my friend

A few years back I was on FSTDT and I followed a link to a hysterically clueless thread at freeperville. I scanned through the bat shit crazy threads there and found out about a site they hated called democraticunderground.com. I said to myself, "Self, if these fucktards hate that place it must be the place for me". I usually just read here, but I signed up so I don't get locked out tomorrow.

[denem]

77. The Dean for America blog.

then went forclark and got sliced and diced ;)

[cherokeeprogressive]

78. I found it a bit shrill, with a touch of paranoia, and a dash of delerium.

I was hooked instantly.

[blogslut]

80. Started posting right after Kerry lost to that jerk

Joined a wee bit before that.

I dunno. I like message boards.

[Chovexani]

81. An email list back in '01

I forgot what it was called (Truth something or other), but it was a list that formed during the recount fiasco. Basically it was for exchanging info regarding Repuke fraud shenanigans in FL and later became a way to coordinate protests for the Inauguration. A month or two later someone posted a link to this brand new message board for Democrats called DU. I hopped on over and have been here ever since (I lost my original SN's password, but my then-gf at the time was Kaori and would post from time to time).

Not sure how much longer I'll be here, the way things are going around here.

[cjsmom]

85. GWB's first inauguration

I saw a sign in the crowd advertising the site.

[Madam Mossfern]

86. I occasionally perused through a right-wing site

and this "DU" was frequently mentioned. Some would visit here and go back there to "report" on what was going on here. I decided to visit myself. This was just a couple of months ago...I think. I found it by following the link one of their regulars put up...and then I joined. ;-)

[progdog]

87. Found DU in 2001.

Referred by a post on another website. Had another screen name back then. Left after 2004 election. Came back after recovering from disillusion and apathy.

[Spirochete]

88. Took a left at Bartcop.com n/t

[dansolo]

89. I found it through the Top Ten Conservative Idiots linked at BuzzFlash.com

[Dinger]

90. Found It On Democrats.Com

I lurked here, and then joined up. I liked the fast pace of it, but I still like Democrats.com too. I consider myself A die-hard Duer!

[fight4my3sons]

91. my aunts told me about it. n/t

[Recursion]

92. Googling 9/11 conspiracy theories, oddly enough (nt)

[grantcart]

93. My friend got tired of me sending 10 emails a day about Edwards

and told me to come here instead.

[sueragingroz]

94. RRMB

I've known about it forever it seems but didn't become a member right away... and even then, I lurked until recently because I'm all fired up about this primary!

[TK421]

95. I believe it was Democrats.com ( or org. ) I don't recall

but it was before the '04 elections and that was when I really started getting interested in the political process. After that, and an election I believe to be stolen I have been here ever since.

[Mike03]

96. God, I wish I could remember....

Could it have been through Buzzflash?

I think when I joined, I was searching for information on Iraq, Bush, and how badly Bush wanted to get into it with Iraq. I've tried and tried to remember how I found DU. Maybe talk show host Bernie Ward mentioned it? Could that have been it? Or did he mention Buzzflash, which took me to DU? Yikes.... It made sense at the time.

No, maybe it was this: Bernie Ward on his radio program mentioned a website, that was not Buzzflash, but was a good Dem site, but they had a link to Dem Underground... I think that was it.

[Rowdyboy]

98. First I found mydd. DU was listed as one of their links and I tried it out

the rest is history

[stop the bleeding]

99. Fog of War - November 2004

I stumbled across DU via black box voting in the first days after the Kerry loss, me being a voter from FL in 2000 and 04 I was lost and I found DU. My start date shows otherwise, but there is a story behind that.