Hiya Hazel,

You know when we were talking about blogging the other day, we mentioned looking at some of the big blogs and seeing what they’re up to. Studying people who are successful might help us be better bloggers.

So I looked in the TTLB ecosystem and checked out some of the biggies. I’ll do a series of posts on them. The first is the Daily Kos. He’s right at the top of the ecosystem.

First of all, you can quickly see that the writers lean to the left in their politics. They REALLY don’t have much use for old GW. Here are a couple quotes from today’s posts:

. . . get back to retaking our country from the neanderthals running it into the ground.

The insular nature of the Bush administration is such that we’ve become amazed when they are forced to concede that the sky is blue (for now). We all live with such lowered expectations, that an agreement to talk, with no real concessions at all, is “a big success

Political blogging apparently is popular because Daily Kos has a high volume of traffic and comments along with an abundance of ads, too.

Plus, the Daily Kos folks are prolific writers. So far today there have been eight different posts. I wonder if that’s typical. Of course they have a group of writers. So it’s not like one person is cranking out all that rhetoric alone.

Parts of it were interesting, but the overall tone of the Daily Kos seemed a bit strident and angry - which is too bad. You catch more bees with honey than with vinegar. But you know there’s another old saying that misery loves company. Maybe that accounts for the traffic and number of comments. But personally, I wasn’t very impressed.

I’ll check out a few more of the top blogs in the TTLB Ecosystem and let you know what I think about them. Check back later.

See ya,

Adeline,

I DID hear about Jimmah Cartah saying that about President Bush. I think Jimmy is just trying his best to find SOMEONE to be a worse president than he was.

Bless his heart.

He’s been ‘the worst president in modern history’ for so long he must be just jumping at any chance he can get to call someone else worse.

He really doesn’t act very dignified or in a manner becoming to a former president. It’s actually kinda embarrassing.

Here’s what the Associated Press reported him saying:

“We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered,” he said. “But that’s been a radical departure from all previous administration policies.”

Over at Hot Air they are saying that Carter says his words have been misinterpreted!! I’m sure that it is just another misunderstanding like all the other democrats who get hung on their own petard.

The American Princess has a great rant that indicates that Carter has forgotten his own history in contributing to the problems in the Middle East.

Rhymes with Right says he’s the single least competent person to occupy the White House in his lifetime. He goes on to say some rather unflattering thing about the anti-semite peanut farmer.

The Potbelly Stove says it’s time for Jimmy Carter to go home and mind his own business.

Right Voices

I’m Adeline.  Hazel and I couldn’t help but notice what a total mess the world is, and we’re here to bring some common sense to the discussion.

Hazel, did you notice that Jimmy Carter said that George W. Bush is the worst American president?  Is that not the pot calling the kettle black?  I’ll be back later to leave some links.  But really!  Jimmy Carter calling GW a bad president!  That’s hilarious!