Comments on: What I’ve learned about being a Delaware Liberal

By: Common Sense Political Thought » Blog Archive » Donviti resigns from is fired by the Delaware Liberal

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:50:46 +0000

[...] OK, I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t think much of Mr Viti’s political positions, but he was funny at times. His laments about the first Mrs Viti could be over the top, and I suggested to him once that publishing that stuff might work out to his disadvantage. That he has “current struggles with alcohol” I wouldn’t have known had DD not specified it in the dissolution article, but I certainly haven’t read everything on the DL site. Mr Viti addressed it — somewhat — here. [...]

By: arthur

arthur — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:29:44 +0000

“Tell me, who here keeps a job with a company he constantly trashes?”

State workers.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:22:59 +0000

Hey Smitty — this may be too late for you to see, but I apologize taking your comment wrong. It looked like more of the martyr narrative and that would be exactly the wrong way to see this episode. The problem with being a group blog is that lots of folks treat each of us as though we all have the same ideas and opinions. I think that if you are a close reader of this blog, you know that is not true. There are a good number of us who would be Democrats of convenience, but liberal always. And even then, with some ideas on policy and governing that do not fit the mold. For instance, there are some of us who are absolutely behind a Beau Biden run and there are some who are looking for him to show us something, or even waiting to see how the field pans out. But what we get charged with is being a Democratic blog — with all of our ideas in lockstep. Even our most industrious (but largely wrong) critics don’t spend the time or effort to know that this is a group blog of multiple voices and ideas — NOT a group blog representing one narrow set of interests. Much of the reason behind ignoring those critics is because they don’t get what happens here in the first place, but there are voices that are meaningful and yours is one of them. But painting us all with the same broad brush when you’ve spent no time figuring out where we are all coming from gets some pushback or gets ignored.

ps. PM — excellent observation and thanks for expanding on your previous comment.

By: Progressive Mom

Progressive Mom — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:34:22 +0000

Looks like this thread is over. And it turns out it wasn’t about Obama, it was about DV.

I thought this was a post about politics, not personalities, and my reply strictly referred to the notion suggested by Rico that progressives cannot be capitalists.

And the examples were given for Rico, a hard-driven, single-minded conservative who, from what I’ve seen on these boards, hates all things Democratic and believes that any Democrat is a facist. So I gave him (mostly) Republicans/Independents who were capitalists and progressives.

Any effort to link my comments to one side or the other in the “is DV good enough/nice enough/liked enough” to blog here are about as solid as linking weapons of mass destruction to the war in Iraq.

/disclaimer over.

By: donviti

donviti — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:30:13 +0000

I didn’t want to get criticized? I’m the one that got kicked off for criticizing no? I think it is the other way around Nemski.

By: donviti

donviti — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:28:22 +0000

besides DD, who here doesn’t trash where they work once in a while?

By: nemski

nemski — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:28:17 +0000

DV, for someone that didn’t want to be criticized, you sure are doing a lot of it now.

By: donviti

donviti — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:27:27 +0000

Idiotic to the bitter end. It is patently absurd to say that DL has ever been ” the voice of the democratic party in delaware” but lazy half-assed observations are your strong suit.

go run down main street naked please.

You can come back to your blog now. I’m sure it was killing you.

By: donviti

donviti — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:25:38 +0000

Tell me, who here keeps a job with a company he constantly trashes

I wasn’t aware I was on the payroll here?

By: Jason330

Jason330 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:53:47 +0000

Idiotic to the bitter end. It is patently absurd to say that DL has ever been ” the voice of the democratic party in delaware” but lazy half-assed observations are your strong suit.

By: Delaware Dem

Delaware Dem — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:53:14 +0000

At least the truth is finally out. Donviti wasn’t criticizing Democrats. He was criticizing us. Interesting. Tell me, who here keeps a job with a company he constantly trashes?

By: donviti

donviti — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:37:50 +0000

Donviti for hire. I’m ready to sell out to a blog open minded enough to take criticism.

By: donviti

donviti — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:33:14 +0000

it’s the way they wanted it from the beginning. now they can go on being the voice of the democratic party in delaware and beyond.

By: Mike Matthews

Mike Matthews — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:19:44 +0000

Post of the year. Thanks for this, DV. Sorry you’re gone. It’s a bad day for DL.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:51:43 +0000

Smitty,

As a member of the DL community you have every right to share your opinion on the changes made on the blog.