“It’s currently 1:33am MST, 04.20.08: The current post count is: 19709.

The counter is broken. Folks have screenshots. ABC please fix the problem.”

Since the counter didn’t change from when I posted it to when I attempted to pull up the page again, it probably didn’t make it. Or maybe it did. Oh well.

I can’t promise in advance that I would be involved; I’m needing to be very careful and deliberately grounded in deciding what I do and don’t do in relation to all this. But I have tons of respect for your intuition and I would love the opportunity to know what you’re thinking about … and get involved if it is right for me to do.

I hope you post about it! (or email it to me at storiesproject at mindspring dot com if you don’t post? But hopefully you will post it)

I think we need an “angry? What you can do about it thread”

we can post links of pages/addresses/phone no/ where we can take action to channel frustration.

I have some ideas about what’s going on. What we see in the campaign doesn’t make any sense..but an idea has occurred to me and it’s interesting because I go a hunch about this weeks ago but dismissed it. I’m too tired to type it up right now…maybe sometime tomorrow..that’s if anybody gives a damn.

goodnight.

Maybe you’re right. To me it looked liked he was surprised and disappointed to discover it was going to be 3 against 1.

I agree. I volunteered for a few days in Rhode Island, but there are TONS of full-time volunteers who bust their behinds for the Obama campaign going from state to state – and the pressure they are under doesn’t come near what Obama himself faces.

He is not only running this campaign, he has early Secret Service protection that he couldn’t afford to refuse like McCain and two young daughters – also under Secret Service protection – to think about.

I’m not surprised that questions about Ayers, Rev. Wright and the stupid flag pin would take precedence over Columbia, Mark Penn, or the “Screw ‘em” comments. But I am hoping for a pro-Obama backlash that will just piss the MSM off! I am really, truly hoping that most Americans FINALLY stand up and show the MSM and the real “elites” that they are not stupid.

This is the first election where the internet is playing a HUGE part (hence, the idea that we know right away that ABC has received a boatload of critical comments on their website) and it has, and will continue to be, favorable to Obama. The fact that people are reading blogs and watching YouTube helps him in the longrun so I’m still hopeful.

But it wasn’t a good performance.

I’m bet he fell off the wagon tonight and had a few cigarettes.

I know you’re right, but I hope at least Olberman will touch on it.

Make no mistake, Barack Obama’s bottom-up movement threatens those interests.

If you want to make an impact save your emails and phone calls and boycott ABC and all its affiliates. In fact, you’d have to stop watching all the networks and boycotting all their advertisers.

You’d have to become Amish.

Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see how he did so bad considering the context and nature.

Where do you think he was weak at?

It already is the story in the blogosphere, but it won’t be in the NYTimes, WaPo, LATimes, small town newspapers, etc.

How do we know if those threats have subsided or gotten worse.

What if the recent manufactured firestorm caused those threats to increase? What if his family received a threat today?

I’m not making excuses for his performance, but there’s a whole lot more going on than meets the eye.

We simply can’t know what’s going on.

Obama knows, though. He had an off night.

Don’t fret about the outcome.

FUCK YOU!

I’ve already sent an email, but I will call tomorrow.

I think the headlines tomorrow will be about the quality of the deabte.

Folks are outraged about that sideshow!

I feel so bad for Barack and Michelle, they are literally taking a mental and emotional beating in a quest to help the people of this country to a better place.

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volunteers work hard, but I don’t think it can compare to the pressure Obama is under. I heard him say he gets 4 hours sleep…this is weeks on end. He has to prepare for every appearance. Can you imagine the loads of material he has to go through to prepare for debate? Think of the constant traveling. He has been doing this for close to 2 years! A volunteer can quit when they get tired…he can’t! Think of all the insults to him and his wife! Think of the humiliation he has to endure from nobody reporters like Lou Dobbs and company. Could you handle that??!! I know I couldn’t.

I am sometimes angry at Obama for not pouncing on Hillary’s gaffes in the past. He brought some things up tonight…but I think he should have nailed her long ago. But I am deeply empathetic to the tightrope he has to walk….I understand intimately what that means.