Bloggers

<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20040705/tc_afp/internet_blog">Bloggers come of age in US presidential race</a><br />n<br />nI find this article and headline to be, I guess the best word would be, interesting. I understand there are a lot of bloggers and blogging going on out there but I really don't think it will have much affect on the Presidential election. The simple reason I think that is the partisan nature of the blogs. I have looked around quite a bit and noticed that in the political arena there are liberal and conservative blogs and each is usually "preaching to the choir."<br />n<br />nPut simply if you are conservative you read conservative blogs and if your liberal you read liberal blogs and never the twain shall meet. So how many minds the political blogs change is very few. About all they do is rally the faithful. Now maybe I am being awful cynical about this but that is the way political blogs strike me. I ventured into the political blogs of both stripes briefly when I first started reading blogs and the extreme rhetoric of them was a real turn off. I am usually trying to find the truth, not be spoon fed extreme rhetoric. This is the reason why I try to keep my comments out of the political arena and confine them to, what I consider, stupid things politicians say. If people want political rhetoric they can go some where else.<br />n<br />n<b>A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. H. L. Mencken</b>