TalkLeft lists pro-Hillary blogs.

[kerstin]

More rightly they should be called non-anti-Hillary blogs. (Most of them anyway. By default, just being objective these days makes one pro-Hillary apparently.)

I thought it would be good if we could throw a few "hits" their way.

Here's the link with the list: http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/11/16339/7225

(My first thread in the HRC bunker!)

[SaveOurDemocracy]

1. Hiya kerstin!! ;o)

Welcome, and thanks for the link! :hi:

Make yourself comfy :pals: I'm betting a certain someone has a cupcake for you.

[xmas74]

2. I have something extra special for you now!

We love our cupcakes here in our little bunker and nearly everyone on DU love teh kittehs. How about we combine our loves for the perfect post?

[SaveOurDemocracy]

7. LOLLLL ...

That's adorable ... thanks!! :hug:

Are you sure I won't get a hairball? :evilgrin:

[xmas74]

8. That's a chance you'll

have to take.

Kitteh or cupcake? You decide.

[kerstin]

11. Thanks, SaveOurDemocracy!

Glimpsing down-thread, it looks like, indeed, I'm in for a treat!

[xmas74]

3. Welcome!

Have a cupcake!



They're watermelon and very special.

[kerstin]

13. What a feast for the eyes, xmas74!

You know I've often admired your cut-and-paste confections, but never did I dream I'd be a recipient of one! And such an exotic selection too!

Thanks for the welcome, and the cakes!

[xmas74]

16. You're quite welcome!

Here's one more, just because I think he's cute.

[kerstin]

23. Thanks! Don't mind if I do! n/t

[Mark Twain Girl]

4. Hi Kerstin -- blogger who was kicked off TPM for taking about women and not being pro-Obama?

I found this through the link you posted, from Riverdaughter's blog:

http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27194

It's about a blogger posting on TPM whose posting privileges were revoked there.

I must admit I was a little surprised. I have not been fired in a long time (decades, really), and I think I'm having a pretty good run in the crowded precincts of political commentary. True, my last few postings at TPM Café were not in keeping with the overwhelming majority of their articles, making and making the case for Senator Barack Obama. I questioned the value of an Idaho caucus victory. I criticized Maureen Dowd's column suggesting that when a perfect female candidate came along, the media would be delighted to support her. I suggested that "Josh" might have waited to get more survey results before he posted his video embracing the ultimately erroneous Zogby predictions for the California primary the afternoon before the primary. But I thought that the new media of the blogosphere was actually established in part to offset what they considered the tendency of the MSM to cut its coverage to suit its preexisting, largely establishment, predilections. So I was blithely oblivious to the possibility that my dissenting views on the inevitability and divinity of the Obama candidacy might cause a problem.

I don't need to agree with this blogger (her name is Linda Hirshman) on every issue to think this is the sort of thing we're seeing across the board. And it's not right.

[kerstin]

14. I read that too.

Never would I have expected this sort of censorship and intimidation from the left. I'm really sort of in shock over it all.

Thanks for posting the excerpt, MTG.

[judaspriestess]

5. Thank you for posting!!

[kerstin]

15. Thanks, judaspriestess! n/t

[robbedvoter]

6. Great minds! Just popped in to bring a Tom Watson entry: "The Few, The Proud, the Clinton

bloggers:
http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=505eaef0-2425-49aa-a5e1-f7d694a1d70d
To be a Clinton blogger in the progressive blogosphere is to be hated, shunned, passed without notice in the street. We sit home on Friday nights, cursing at Chris Matthews and being censored by Al Giordano for commenting too often in a field of swaying Obama supplication. We're not welcome at all the best dKos parties - if we show up, we're cursed with the universal epithet of those who challenge the Obama hegemony: "troll," they call us. Sometimes "f'ing troll." We're Rovian in our embrace of the monster, closet Bush backers and much worse - Lieberman types! Oh, the pain. The pure pain. I can't stand it. Makes me want to quit, embrace that messianic goodness, and stand down - for the sake of the party, of course - from any pursuit of a Clinton presidency.

Or perhaps...not. Looking over the (all-too-short) lineup of Clinton bloggers is enough to stiffen any political spine. We don't have numbers, but we do have quality"
then the links follow

[kerstin]

17. I thought I'd read that piece, but I see now I haven't.

Thanks for posting it, RV. Would've missed it otherwise.

I love this line: "We don't have numbers, but we do have quality"! I can dig it. B-)

[zabet]

9. Thanks for sharing and..

Welcome to our little
hide-out!

:hi:

It is amazing the number
of sites that have been
overtaken by Obama supporters.

[kerstin]

18. Thanks for the welcome, CJ! (Hope I'm not being too familiar!)

It is amazing. Disorienting too. I'm not sure I even know what it means to be a progressive anymore. :shrug:

[zabet]

20. CJ is fine.

You have not forgotten what
a progressive is I am sure.
The idiots in GDP have forgotten
what civility and commen sense
are.

[kerstin]

24. Point taken. n/t

[libbygurl]

10. Hello there, Kerstin! Nice to have you on board!

:hi:

Thanks for the link. Will be going over tout de suite!

[kerstin]

19. Ah we meet again, libbygurl!

Hey the "Polished Gold" video turned out to be a real hit, didn't it? Only one semi-snarky post, I noticed.

Thanks for the welcome! :hi:

[libbygurl]

22. Yeah, and I just came back from kicking the thread again!

One nice O supporter left a sweet comment on it, too! Gosh, I couldn't reconcile her 'Obama' avatar with the nice words she left - I've been so programmed to wince whenever I see an O - whatever!

Thanks for the nudge to post it there. It's a real hit, judging by the total no. of views it's gotten.

[kerstin]

25. I'll be sure and give it a little boost before I turn in tonight. n/t

[libbygurl]

12. I love James Wolcott - 'tho' haven't read him in ages - perfect description of him there -

And look, we've got James Wolcott - the intellectual equivalent, according to some recent Pew research, of a combined 14,392 DailyKos Obama diarists.

LOL! So true! He's got such sharp wit, and so much to spare!

By God, there are so few of them, you can actually list them on at most, three hands! But as Jeralyn says, we may not have quantity, but we've got QUALITY!

[kerstin]

21. I love that description of Wolcott too!

Very apt.

"We may not have quantity, but we've got quality!" I couldn't agree more! :puffpiece: