Ha, ha, ha!! My experiment with the main boards on DU proves what I thought.

[beachmom]

Take the time out to write your views on complex issues like the Middle East or Afghanistan with links and ideas of how to solve problems there -- watch your post sink, and sink very fast with total indifference.

OTOH, type up a 3 second throw away post of what somebody just told you on the phone that was related to '08, and BAM -- 30 comments and counting.

There is just no cure for GD and GD-P. The disease of horse race talk and stupidity is too prevalent to overcome.

[whometense]

1. I wonder if they are remotely aware

of how much they sound like the tv pundits?

[wisteria]

2. It is becoming tiring reading the nonsense posts about who's in and who is

out, who someone likes and who they don't.No substance posts. Someone who dishes Kerry- all the time, suggested that Obama is the ticket because he is the hot item right now because of what he says. When I asked him what he has said, he never answered. So, it is ok to vote for fluff and no substance, because the media says so. It just amazes me how they buy into the hype and gossip of the media without defusing it.

[MBS]

3. yeah, even supposedly otherwise-intelligent people

Our country's politics have become so dumbed-down in the last 40 years or so. Everyone going on about the danger of using "big words" or "long explanations" these days, "good stories" , "personality", media celebrity, and one-liners taking on greater importance than policies, experience, character (REAL character, not telegenicity), and competence. . .. In 2004, I watched a re-broadcast of the Kennedy-Nixon debates, and they were VERY policy-heavy, on both sides. I don't remember anyone complaining about the debates being too "complicated" back then. . but if these were happening today's Era of the Sound-Bite, people would surely dismiss both Kennedy and Nixon for being too "hard to understand". It's pathetic. There are certainly a lot of problems with politicians and with the media. But-- I'm sorry-- our fellow citizens are also equally to blame for this situation. Politicians can't blame voters. But I can. People have to wise up in 2008, and vote for substance, or we're finished.

[TayTay]

4. There was an excellent and informative post

that I highly commend to your attention in GD. Most well-written, though given the author, that is stipulated.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2856592&mesg_id=2856592

[beachmom]

6. Thanks. But come on -- aren't sexy posts about whether the mania

of one candidate for '08 is real or not FAR more fun???

Solving the problems in the Middle East? BBOORRIINNG and frankly quite dreary

Posts about who's up who's down, who's name sounds like a terrorist, etc. -- Kick it, baby!! Requires no brain activity whatsoever, and will fit right in at all Washington DC cocktail parties. Yes, we bloggers can be just as cool as the pundits in Washington!!

[ginnyinWI]

5. people don't care about the issues.

They care about being spectators in politcal fights, and sitting in the peanut gallery cheering their guy on. Our guy: Yay!! Their guy: Boo!! That about sums it up. I'm spending little time over there these days, because it has so little content.

Another good way to get a lot of hits is to poke fun at *. People love to weigh in with their own jokes. :shrug:

[TayTay]

7. This is the silly season.

The Dems won the midterms, but are holed up making plans for January. The Repubs are filing for unemployment and licking their wounds and trying to figure out a comeback and how to be obstructionists. (Repubs: It's only bad when Dems do it. When we do it, we are saving the Republic from them libruls.)

Don't pay attention to anything that happens between now and the beginning of January, when the new Congress is sworn in. Then, I promise you, it will get real interesting, real fast.