10-06-2008, 04:29 AM
rob what i was trying to indicate was my abhorrence to negative campaigning and name calling. i really think politics/god and racial issues can heat up emotions and cause ill-will on the punaweb at a time when we are trying to form a community. that was the intended focus on my posting. i believe people are intelligent enough to make up their own minds or if they dont care enough to be informed, hopefully they become the apathetic 60 percent who dont vote. i have spoken to several puna webbers who say they just stay away from that portion of the forum and i think they gave me good advice. i hate to see friends and neighbors resort to name calling and word-smithing... many of whom might not even be registered to vote, or havent been here long enough to understand the history, the players, the entire dynamics of their decisions to bring change to our world in puna.