My Good friends: McCain and Obama
Don MIller prays at the DNC
Ilove the web 2.0!
This morning I was catching up on my blogs (I had about 120 I had to scroll through), and I found something very profound. And this time, it wasn’t in Seth Godin’s blog. If you haven’t read his blog, and you’re into Marketing even on a marginal level, go and read it right now. Everything he writes is profound.
Anyway, back to my point. This morning I was reading the blog of my new friend (of the last year or so) Eric. Eric is a web developer amongst other things and has taught me a lot through the mediums of conversations and blogging about web 2.0. One of the things Eric is truly passionate about is politics. Eric likes democrats.
In his latest post, Eric gives a fairly even-handed review of his thoughts on McCain’s choice for running mate, and connects to the site of my best friend from high school (this has been several years by the way) Clay, who runs the site, “Reluctant Republicans”. Clay is also truly passionate about politics.
Clay likes republicans.
As a friend of both of them, I can appreciate their thoughts on this subject and read each and every post on the subject fairly thoroughly. But the point of this post is once again connection.
At no point in my life has Clay and Eric ever even been in the same state at the same time that I know, except for maybe this summer when Clay and his family took a vacation to NYC, but here they are, even in a subtle way, connecting their thoughts so that viewers on their blogs can see where they are both coming from. Not to mention they both have impacted my life in several ways,
I come from the end of an age where hearing from someone who differed from you was betrayal, and now its the best way to come to a conclusion. So thank you to my friends who offer two different sides of a very important subject these days. Also thank you to Don Miller, author of “Blue Like Jazz”, for this post in his new blog.
And thank you to you…for reading and sharing your thoughts.
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I do like Democrats. I knew of Clay’s site from your blog, and his site seems to symbolize how a lot of the Republican base felt about McCain (pre-Palin). I’d be interested to know if Clay becomes less reluctant, or if he detects less reluctance in his fellow reluctant Rep’s as time goes by.