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Its kind of funny, really

I'll offer this as neither Democrat / Republican / Liberal / Conservative / Left Wing / Right Wing or any other political group.

Artificially forcing into polarity groups is a manipulation tool. "You're for me or against me" is one of these manipulation tools.

Its used by both sides of all those coins, they're the same coin wearing different masks.

Luckily some are not on either side, although they are effectively kept quite by various methods.

Ive seen enough from all these groups that smell of hypocrisy that I wouldn't lend my name to any of them.

Rather, I speak as a working person trying to support my family and understand and operate within the systems that is ours. like it our not, it's the one we have.

Its interesting to me to see the more or less uniform "complaint" McCain ads are getting from readers as well as "journalist" here at CultureKitchen.

Rather than see it as a negative automatically (habit that can be unlearned), why not get informed as how the Google (or Yahoo) keyword engines work and realize that the AI behind the ads dont exactly gauge tone (they do to some extent) any better than human readers.

The same search activities that bring ads to this site will also bring readers. Liza's effort does a good job of explaining how this works.

If you have a statement to make, make it in coherent fashion, substatiate it with facts, outline a sound position, and the world's search engines will find it.

Like never before, voices have a chance to be heard - at least until McCain and Jerry Falwell push thru legislation to silence bloggers. Hillary is also trying this via election reform.

Complaining about the McCain ads is a lot like biting the hand that feeds you.

Anyone think different?


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