While it's flattering and all to have so quickly and decisively formed a lynch mob - it really illustrates the fault around here, doesn't it? Write drivel about Obama (or Al Gore, or Hillary, or back in the 1990s, Bill Clinton), get praise. Attack McCain, get called out ad hominem.
I've been around a long time. Long enough to come to cons, long enough to drink with Drex, long enough to call Mark 'DoK GonZo' Miller a personal friend. Long enough to stand up in Eagl's wedding party, although I doubt he'd have much to do with me anymore - considering I outed myself as a Democrat. Long enough to remember long chats with Grey Eagle in Air Warrior, long enough to know that the little blue pincushion doll on a shelf in the control tower of a previous version of Aces High was BlueBaron. I know because HiTech told me. Personally. I remember the week of mourning when HT lost his sibling and their family in a SUV rollover from a defective tire manufacturer. I remember the missing man formations that week, and sending my deepest condolences privately.
I've been around long enough to have been Worr's original mentor, the guy who spent hours with him teaching him the view system until he easily outclassed his mentor. A friend of Snak, of Fletchman. Long enough to have Chris 'Smut' Martin help try and get me a job - although again, I openly wonder if he'd want anything to do with me now that he knows I'm an Obama democrat. I've been around long enough to have paid a friend of mine to draw the Flyingpigs logo, still flying at flyingpigs.com. Long enough to grant the image use to the USAF, and that pig now adorns a B2 bomber. Thank you, Ichi, for taking care of that.
When I left the Flying Pigs, and eventually signed off the mailing list, several Pigs emailed me. I won't name names, perhaps in vain hope that they will step up now. Guys who some of you may know. Many of you respect, as they have given more to this community by a factor of 100 than you have. They said, privately, "hey, were Democrats too, we just dont want to fight about it".
Oddly enough, if you look at the Pakistan thread, I doubt saying that we need to expand the war into Pakistan aggressively puts me in line with ANY democrat. I doubt saying that a naval blockade of Pakistan puts me on Nancy Pelosi's Christmas card list. So even if you lost nerve form caling me an idiot, and just reduced that to Party Hack, you'd be wrong on each of those.
I'm slicing at McCain. Because he sold out. And if you think about it, you'd agree. the John McCain of 2000 doesn't even know this John McCain. the John McCain of 2000 wouldn't think of overturning a woman's right to choose. This McCain has kissed the ring of the Christian right and swore to overturn Roe v Wade. If Palin were a Dem, this place would be destroying her every day. The hypocrisy is so thick, you MUST cut it with a axe.
I understand, this is enemy turf. None of you scare me, not even the graphic that says "Sooner or Later, you'll get yours." which is a lovely veiled threat of violence and all, but it doesn't scare me. Because I know, once you can't fight the argument anymore - once your position is so openly wrong that you have to admit that Bush screwed you - that he sent the Armed Services of the United States into a war that furthered his PRIVATE interests, that he ignored the REAL war in Afghanistan, once you think about what happened and who is making out in this bailout - maybe you'll be like some of the other Pigs, the ones who emailed me and said "we're with you, we just don't like fighting about it."
So take your ad hominem thread, and shove it.
BTW, I'm an IT Director at a bank. I make it a GOAL in life to prefer hire vets. Funny thing about active duty military contributions, they favor Obama. Funny that the 3 guys on my staff are all Dems. No, I didn't ask them a whit about their politics when I hired them.
Funny that.
I agree to a point, and its interesting to see Names like Worr in your post.... if its the Worr from Warbirds, he is the guy above all others who helped me get into these games.
Still, I agree this place has degenerated into a worthless pit and your right on the cause, the only problem is you only name the people on the other side who cause problems and none on yours. skyrock and his type are JUST as bad. Granted there are fewer of his type, but he is the most disruptive post on these forums and the main reason I hardly post here anymore(though the reps who do it to like WRAG make me no happier).
I think the Oclub has about run it course and will prolly be killed off soon.
It is sad, I have learned things from this board, and have changed my political views on several things over the years based on posts and conversations here from BOTH sides.
