I've read MyDD for over seven years.  It used to be a home for smart, intelligent analysis of politics.  At this point, it's become a shrill, vacuous place for garbage posts like this.  I'm done.

And it's not because there's criticism of Obama.  I have plenty of it, and have no problem contributing to sites that take part (AmericaBlog has been rightfully harsh on him for gay rights).  But I'm not seeing anything here that's worth reading.  Jerome's analysis is not far from what I think is going to wind up happening on Election Day, but it's wrapped in such bitterness that it quickly becomes useful.

And how this guy's writing is on the front page- that's what's beyond me.  You take a valid argument how Obama's missteps and preface it with a "Palin's totally gonna win and you're gonna be sorry" paragraphs that negates any points you make in the rest of the post. Seriously? Palin has a 22% approval rating in this country.  Republicans don't think she's qualified to be president.  Everyone on this planet with a modicum of reality knows there's nothing but the slimmest chance she can get the nomination, and there's zero chance she gets elected.  Want to energize the Dems, nominate her.  Will never happen.

Of course you don't care that I'm leaving, my three views a day won't impact whatever ad dollars are left here, and I haven't had the stomach or interest to contribute to the conversation in years.  But I spent so much time on these boards from 2005-2009 that I'll take these five minutes to say goodbye with the hopes that someone reading questions exactly what has happened to this site, and goes elsewhere with their political website time.  Or better, Jerome, who I do have respect for despite our political disagreements, realizes what's happened here and makes some changes for the positive.

But that won't happen.  Lemon out.

I don't understand why it was allowed to proceed.  If I was either coach, once it hit about 40-0, I'd have walked across the lines and proposed we call the game, and spend the rest of the time doing something more productive.

I would've turned off the scoreboards, mixed up the teams, and done a joint practice where the girls at the small school would play alongside the girls from the big school, and perhaps learn a few things.

this is the worst post i've ever read on this website.  i'm done.

I would raise a quick point of order, and say that if you're going to post, post under Mike Quigley, but if you're going to have your staff post or comment, make another account called Quigley2010.

Otherwise, welcome aboard, and good luck.  Hopefully by coming to a smaller site like this you're going to talk with us, instead of at us, like far too many candidates seem to want to do.

You know, with a few clicks of "recommend" on a few of the better diaries of the last hour or two, this will disappear from said rec list.  I clicked three times and got it knocked down to last place.

Dude was the bomb in Swingers, too.

The only thing remotely interesting about this diary is that Nancy has apparently learned how to make words bold.

Yeah, this is a good diary minus the title.  Why not change it?

Did your parents ever take a CD away from you?  My mother found the Boyz N the Hood soundtrack in my underwear drawer and made a display about destroying it.  Very embarassing!

Sadly enough, it seems pretty much everyone has- to somewhere else.

This site was a wonderful place to post, and visit, and I'd been coming here for years.  Then, suddenly, Alegre and crew took over, having fled DKos for whatever reason.  This turned into a place (and Jerome was always pro-Clinton, and that was fine) where one couldn't disagree with the high priestess of blogging without having minons downrate you constantly.  Where one person would blog nightly without saying much of anything, attacking "Barry" and posting bizarre diaries with titles like "And still she shines... like polished gold."

Good conversations dried up as sockpuppets sprung up brazenly to downrate and rec as needed.  The front page diaries were (and are) still quite informative, but whoever was tasked with moderating the public forum completely fell asleep at the wheel.

That's why this diary is on the recommend list with a whopping one rec (which has been the case for a long while).  The degredation of this site has very little to do with Jerome's support of Clinton (and disappearance after her loss), but instead with the lack of moderation after the Alegre takeover.

Hey, Nancy's back with more whining.

Let me guess.  

Blah blah blah

sexism

blah blah blah

Clinton won and they stole it for the MAn

blah blah blah

sexism

Like Lil' Wayne said- and when i'm at the bottom, she Hillary Rodham.

i have enjoyed my time on this site, but jesus, i might as well be reading alegre at this point.

see ya.

Or perhaps sometime in the last few decades when he'd been causing the problem.