First Negative Comment

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I’ve arrived.

I had my first negative comment yesterday and it generated more traffic and comments on my blog than anything else in the past month.  Okay, now I understand why politicians use negative campaign tactics – it gets people’s attention!

I really thought the post was relatively benign but I guess I could kinda sorta maybe see how 46% of America might get offended.  But it clearly wasn’t my intention. Here’s a little snippet if you didn’t catch it yesterday:

In response to my post Kelly said (no blog URL left):

How can you talk like that to your daughter. I am and will always be a McCain supporter, when my kids got up this morning(12, 14 & 15) that were sad that Obama became president and started to say negative things about him. I stopped them and said he is now the president of the united state – your UNITED state and you must support him while he is president. Obama would be disappointed in you and your daughter from what I have heard he wants a united america not a divided. Your still divided even though he won. BTW my father is a great man and he loves his grandchildren and cares deeply about that generation and he can’t text either.

Here was my response: (more…)

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