How did you find DU?

[waiting for hope]

Just curious - I found this little slice of heaven last year after typing in "Hate Bush" in Yahoo..at the time it was about five or six down on the list - Cats and Dogs who hate Bush are still the top two but with all that has gone on, DU isn't on the first page anymore...:cry: but methinks that is a good thing for it appears there are more and more sites using those tag words. So, how did you find DU?

[NMDemDist2]

1. i was googling Kerry and found this woohoo n/t

[waiting for hope]

10. Wow....Kerry took you here..

I was wondering how much interest some of the Senators and Reps take into what goes on here. I have seen that Elizabeth Edwards has DU'd but it would be a serious talking point if they paid attention to the things being discussed here. There are many articulate, intelligent people that provide excellent insight and raise the important questions that need addressing - wouldn't it just be a kick in the pants is some of the ones who have a bit of influence used this forum as a sounding board?

[NMDemDist2]

15. i found DU about the time the swiftboaters were starting up

DU helped a LOT

[eleny]

2. A Dem Yahoo group

[nini]

3. The now gone Mediawhoresonline

I loved that site.

[TomInTib]

24. Same here

and I found Mediawhorse on good ol' bartcop.

I spent years here before I figured out how to post or reply.

[nini]

37. I lurked for almost a year before I jumped in

I have no idea why... I just stayed quiet for a while.

[MrModerate]

4. I was searching on Bernie Weiner's name, with whom . . .

I have a passing acquaintance (he effectively -- and fairly -- ended my career in the theatre 20 years ago). That linked to DU, and I've been here ever since.

And I've long since forgiven Bernie.

[uppityperson]

5. I had to check.

dogshatebush.com catshatebush.com are both real. How I found DU is reading on some blog pre-2004 election.

[Mz Pip]

6. Link from

Bush Watch back in the spring of 2001. There was a link to the Top 10 conservative idiots page.

God, that was a lifetime ago.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Ghost in the Machine]

7. Through a link from our "old pal, Jerky" over at The Daily Dirt

http://www.dirtfiles.com

[Stardust]

85. Is he the "Jerky" from the Mike Malloy Show? I think Malloy is

the one who piqued my curiousity about DU.

[Ghost in the Machine]

87. I believe he mentioned something about being interviewed there..

or doing an interview, i'm not sure which.. (sorry, I suffer from short term memory loss due to an accident... plus I have the attention span of a gnat sometimes) ... but he does mention Malloy, as well as Michael Moore and others, quite often... he goes by Jerky Lebeouf on his site...

[Warpy]

8. The first time Buzzflash linked the Top 10 Conservative Idiots

It took me a while longer to register and post.

[waiting for hope]

16. Same here....

I did a lot of reading and the next thing you know, I was hooked. Then I wanted a star and bumper sticker and I knew for sure I was lost. I just told my husband I want a DU T-shirt for Christmas....:evilgrin:

[nosillies]

18. Same here...Buzzflash Top 10 links

[fedupinBushcountry]

9. Googled Democrat

in early 2003, I needed to here sane voices and a place where we were free to speak about this corrupt administration.

[Massacure]

11. I got linked the the environment and science forum

I was doing a research paper for an environmental science class I took.

[noamnety]

14. I got linked too

saw it in my referrer logs.

[proud patriot]

12. I saw Admin holding the sign on cspan 1/20/01

:hi:

[zeemike]

57. So did I

But I lurked for a while before posting

[orleans]

13. don't remember. n/t

[Wwagsthedog]

40. War, Ditto? Other?, Huh? nt

[boolean]

17. Googled "Conservative idiots"

I needed a list and found a good one!

[struggle4progress]

47. Yep!

:D

[Broken_Hero]

19. my wifes mentor....

at her job...he told us both about this site in mid 04...and didn't start coming often until the day of the election...than read posts for quite a few months before becoming a memeber...:)

[Swamp Rat]

20. Buzzflash.com n/t

[1620rock]

23. hated.com.

[mcscajun]

21. Got here courtesy of "The Smirking Chimp" website.

I spent a lot of time there before the 2004 election.

[Lochloosa]

22. google led me here.

I was looking for something...damn what was it...

[waiting for hope]

29. Yep....

It's easy to get caught up in it. I really wish I had time for more progressive blog reading (just checked out BuzzFlash for the first time) but I figure, why bother, it all comes here anyway!

[Lochloosa]

32. I know....I don't bother anymore.

all the links end up here.

[RagAss]

25. Michael Moore had a link on his website

[Journeyman]

26. Bartcop, early 2001. . .

I found Bartcop while looking for comedy/satire about BushCo, and Bartcop had a link to here.

[alittlelark]

38. Bartcop for me as well.

[laundry_queen]

62. Me too. Found Bartcop in '02, DU in '04 n/t

[fed-up]

27. via a link in a thread on the randirhodesshow.com message boards n/t

[ocd liberal]

28. I too came to DU from "Smirking Chimp"

I can't remember how I got to "Smirking Chimp" though... Probably has something to do with that CA pot thread....

[Blue_In_AK]

30. Something I was reading in Craig's List

linked to DU. I was hooked.

[Uben]

31. Over seven years ago!

I think that was before Google, but I found it on a search engine and it was pretty new at the time. I have been here ever since.I have forgotten what my first account name was because my computer crashed back then , so I started a new one in Jan of 2001. But I know I have been around since before the 2000 elections.

[azurnoir]

33. Dauo report

read for a long time first.

[U4ikLefty]

34. Got it from the Guardian's comment forum.

The RW'ers whined about DU so much...I had to investigate.

[Major Hogwash]

35. Took a left at Greenland.

Old Beatles reference.

LoL

[marmar]

36. I heard it being discussed on Air America...

and it sounded like my kinda place. We've been happily married ever since.

[MisterP]

39. anti-Buchanan and -Rush sites, then TurnLeft, then BartCop

the middle one, at least, appears to have been scared stupid by 9-11

[ima_sinnic]

41. was referred from a forum on eBay in 2001 or 2002

that is one right-wing bunch over there and I got really tired of arguing with idiots and getting attacked and sabotaged--about 9 of us lefties posting on eBay started an e-mail round-robin among ourselves, which was really kind of neat--one person started coming over here and recommended it to the others--I thought I'd died and went to heaven after the put-downs and hassles over there--only 2 of us are here now AFAIK, I haven't communicated with the others for years. However, one of the RWers who had constantly attacked us soon e-mailed me to apologize and say I was right and she was dropping out of the whole eBay forum thing, too many idiots.

[yorkiemommie1]

68. i used to lurk on the ebay forums

and one poster was great. i found an HSN thread the other day and there were only 2 posters backing *. The others were going at her pretty good!

[Spazito]

42. Through Buzzflash via the top ten conservatives...

came to read that and never left.

[AndyA]

43. I found DU through a link in a post at Huffington Post. n/m

[sendero]

44. via Media Whores Online..

... RIP.

[hlthe2b]

82. MWO..... did we ever learn who the 'genius' behind that site was?

Poor ole horsey...

I always wondered if it wasn't David Brock--an early effort prior to launching media matters in a much bigger way... Who knows....

[hyphenate]

45. I used to be on a board

where we would post the week's Top 10 Conservative Idiots, and eventually, I came over and joined. That was around this time, 5 years ago, before 9/11. I also belonged to several Yahoo boards, including the "famous" IHATEGEORGEBUSHFANCLUB. :)

[Lars39]

46. Someone had steered me to buzzflash.

I found DU in a link at the bottom.

[Lowell]

48. I found the link at

Jo Fish's site Democratic Veteran. Been coming back every since.

[smtpgirl]

49. Became a DU fan in 2002, after I found

the link at

www.smirkingchimp.com

smirking chimp is more editorial, not like a message board.

Anyway, have been become more active, shame on me

[Elwood P Dowd]

55. Only a few more posts to 1,000

:toast:

[onehandle]

50. From Bartcop's forum, where I was and am a moderator.

I joined DU on the first day and helped them spot trolls.

Bartcop's Forum:

http://bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=2

[SeattleGirl]

51. Other: A friend emailed me a link to a DU article.

I was hooked.

[mad-mommy]

52. googled "death of middle class america" n/t

[Generic Other]

53. Bushwatch

the folks who had been loathing him in Texas since he was guv.

[femmocrat]

54. I googled "anti-Bush" in the lead up to the occupation.... n/t

[BrotherBuzz]

56. ENRON

California resident here, and was spitting mad with the energy debacle in California. DU was a great clearing house for information during that period and guess I stayed around for the rest of the story.:shrug:

[Speck Tater]

58. Dean blog back when he was still in the running for prez. (nt)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

59. The Day After The 2004 Election I Typed In The Words Exit Polls.

I found democrats.com and DU. DU blew democrats.com away in terms if raw information and speed of updates. I was blown away by DU almost immediately and have read it religiously ever since.

[jaxx]

60. A real jerk on another forum kept saying I was saying what I heard at DU.

I asked what DU was, and of course was called a liar for asking. So I went hunting and found this great place. I told that bush ass kisser thanks for steering me to the truth. I hope he spit on his screen when he read it. ;-)

[The Jacobin]

61. Heard about it on Mike Malloy when AAR went live.

In the first month of internet streaming, Malloy mentioned this site.

[EST]

63. I never did give a crap much about politics, just informed

enough to vote fairly intelligently. I was not enamored of *, especially after he fu**ed an airplane, some good men, and our good name with China. By 2002 I didn't really understand why I was no pissed and in mortal fear for the future of the country, so I was hunting around the internet, a total neophyte, for something, anything to prove that I wasn't crazy and that surely there were others who thought as I.

I was hunting up impeachment and found impeachbush.com and then, in desperation started googling "democrat" and wound up here.
Being brand new to boards, it took me over a year to feel comfortable enough to post but I'm glad I did.

I felt like I was home.

[lamp_shade]

64. Draft Clark

Got the link from the original Draft Clark blog.

[tech3149]

65. Bartcop! n/t

[yorkiemommie1]

66. felt isolated for having my political positions

googled anti-war and got DU. DU keeps me sane.

[BlueCollar]

67. I don't think I can remember that far back

but I think I took a hit on a link on BartCop and ended up here...and love this place and it's people...

[Nite Owl]

69. Buzzflash n/t

[DURHAM D]

74. Me too.

[catzies]

70. Practically the day after Inauguration 2001. DU was on CSPAN (in a way)

Was a heavy lurker the first few months but joined right around 9/11/01. That's when I knew I had to be here & I've never left.

[hlthe2b]

81. ditto, catzies... Joined up in Feb, 2001...

was searching desperately for fellow progressives as depressed as I, as I watched the friggin "swearing in ceremony in January, 2001." You can damned well, be certain it was a "swearing" ceremony at my house, too. DU launched on that inauguration day. I can't remember now whether I found it that day (or a few days/weeks later after I "sobered" up}.

DU has its ups and downs and sadly, we've lost several of those "inaugural" members... but one thing for sure, it has saved the sanity of many a DEM/Progressive.

[Random_Australian]

71. I was searching for 'conservative idiots' and the top 10 came up.

:)

[Breeze54]

72. Way before the elections of '04... '01 - '02 ?

I kept hearing the phrase,"The left is Right and the Right is Wrong",
I absolutely loved it and at the same time I was in "Meet-Ups" and a member
(EDIT: I think meetups was after '04? ...losing braincells! lol! I can't remember now)
of ACT and I heard about this website http://www.liberaloasis.com/ and I
think it was in a comment there that I saw a link for Democratic Underground
and I liked that name as well, so I came over to check it out! ;)
I think I registered back then, but I used my computer at work. I lost all my
links, then I was layed off and forgot all about it. Then, I got another computer
and job, and I re-registered, after the '04 election. Whew!
That took a lot out of me!! :rofl: I was all over the "internets", since 1998.
Many screennames, many sites, I forget most of them now! Always democratic or
anti-establishment. ;) I wasn't here during the election '04, and I wish I had
been but I was out knocking on doors with ACT, to "Get the Vote Out!"
;) TMI? Tuff titties!! lmao! :hippie:

(I'm pretty sure I mixed up some dates but I was a member here before '04.
I do know that!) Sucks getting older..... ;)

[aaronbees]

73. Used to post at Michael Moore's old message board

and found out about DU there. :) A happy find.

[Phredicles]

75. Disparaging references on capitolhillblue.com.

So I checked this board out and decided I liked it a lot better. I guess by CHB standards that makes me a depraved Partisan. I'll live.

[Doc_Technical]

76. Was a fan of the late, great, site www.suck.com

which led to plastic.com which someone there mentioned

freerepublic.com which (of course) mentioned the

"communist traitors" at democraticunderground.com and here

I am. Lurked for about a year and a half and finally

joined.

[catzies]

98. I too still miss the late great suck.com --easily my fave daily timewaster

of days gone by. Never fell in love with plastic.

[shanti]

77. from another website

totally unrelated to democratic issues. :hi: potpourri!

[Solon]

78. It was soon after * was first sworn in...

Trying to remember what lead me here, I think I searched for "Bush is a dumbfuck" or something, and just lead to here, I registered, then lurked for like a year an a half, then became a regular poster.

[WHAT]

79. well, I was stooping down to grasp the frilly brim of my dislodged...

hat (hard hat/tinfoil hat).

who knows?...

[Penndems]

80. Democrats.com had a link to DU on their website

I click on it a little over four years ago, and the rest is history. :)

[bamacrat]

83. My dad introduced me to DU, he's a veteran DUer.

[sandnsea]

84. Petitioning for a Congressional investigation into Iraq War lies

I posted in lots of places, got stuck on DU. All the people blathering about "what if they find WMD" kept me coming back, still haven't gotten a real investigation into the war lies.

[Stardust]

86. Why aren't we DUbies instead of DUers?

[Subdivisions]

88. Invited by FR

I was doing some research on Tom DeLay and followed a link to FR. Not one to go near such sleazy neighborhoods, I realized that I had stumbled into political gutter I decided to have a little fun by registering with the name "GoreGotBushwacked" and asking a rather provocative question:

Hey, I'm new around these parts and I have a question, but first, some backgroud:


"A President-elect has 11 weeks to become informed in detail about the operations of the federal government before his inauguration on January 20. The“mechanics” of managing a transition — the tasks, deadlines, personnel decisions, budget and administrative procedures — generally occupy the initial phase of the transition process.

However, the President-elect must also begin to focus on making substantive decisions on policy issues. Campaign promises are reviewed to form a policy agenda. Soon after taking office, the new President must prepare a legislative agenda to present to Congress.

The importance of the transition process cannot be underestimated indetermining the ultimate success of an Administration.At least two authors advocatean “extended” transition that begins several months before the election and extends through at least the first session of Congress.

If a President-elect has successfully focused on a “short list” of priorities or objectives that he wants to accomplish, he can dominate policymaking to achieve his goals during the honeymoon period that normally follows a election. By concentrating on a few key issues soon after taking office, many observers believe the President-elect can establish a public perception that he is in command of an aggressive policy agenda."

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL30736.pdf


My question is this: Whose responsibility was it in the 10 months between 11/26/99 and 9/11/01, to first work with the outgoing administration (he blew them off) and then, once sworn, to "faithfully execute the office of President of the United States"?

OK, another question: More importantly how has he, to the best of his ability, preserved, protected, and defended the Constitution of the United States, especially with regard, but not limited to, Iraq?

Damn! Another question!: Why did this administration fail to stop the events of 9/11 saying that "no one could have imagined airplanes being used as missiles and, so, we were caught competely by surprise"? Tell that to a WWII-era kamikaze pilot and to the US intelligence apparatus who, under the command of President William Jefferson Clinton, gathered crucial intel on the chatter of what would become 9/11 - which, during transition, your arrogant president and his unqualified henchmen completely ignored.

The only thing left for this president to do is to shave his head and complete his transition from a wily dog into Lex Luther, Ruler of Earth, with one foot in the Oval Office and one on the stilled, kryptonite-impaled chest of a American Flag-draped Superman, and proclaiming "Mission Accomplished!" But alas, thank God! Because this president can't seem to accomplish anything at all except failing in his ability, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

How'd I do for a novice?

[sg_]

89. FR..

Was googling for political forums used by americans as i was wondering if they could have been all off their heads (~2005). Then after reading some posts there they were talking about 'dummies' or something along that line, then that lead me to here. Was relieved to know that not everyone in the US was as 'war loving' as them. :thumbsup:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

90. I'm pretty sure it was linked from moveon.org

[Jensen]

91. After my heartbreak of 2004 election...

I kept going back to the Kerry blog and a blogger directed me to DU, lurked for a while and got hooked! Thanks DU! :bounce:

[michreject]

92. Gun board......................eom

[WA98296]

93. Saw it referenced on Randi Rhodes board by someone.

[JackBeck]

94. Randi Rhodes.

I've listened to AAR since the first day. She's the reason I found DU. She mentioned it on her show. I've also found many blogs by her mentioning them.

[newspeak]

95. on Sept. 11, 2001

never did much blogging before that--found Smudge Report and the link to DU--been here since then.

[Odin2005]

96. Some Freeper complaining about "DUmmies" on another forum.

The moran had a signature with a link to DU saying "Watch DUmmies frolic around in thier natural habitat." :rofl:

[W_HAMILTON]

97. Interestingly enough...

I happened to be watching C-SPAN one morning, and a lady caller mentioned this site. I ended up checking it out for awhile, just lurking and reading. One day, finally saw something that I wanted to respond to enough that motivated me to sign up. So I did. Ended up getting called a Freeper troll in one of my first ten messages. But it's gotten better since then :)

[Sherman A1]

99. Buddy recommended it to me

[Cleita]

100. I found DU from a link through the Media Horses, which

I'm sad to say is no longer on line. I sure miss them.

[BlackVelvet04]

101. Someone at another forum

told me about it.

[SmokingJacket]

102. I used to read the Buzzflash mailbag all the time.

Then it got repetitious, so I started looking at the links for something similar. Yay!

Can't remember how I found Buzzflash!

It was a while ago now...

[slackmaster]

103. Heard about it on a firearms discussion forum

I was directed to the consistently bad behavior of a now-Tombstoned DUer who has a hair up his ass about guns and gun owners.

[likesmountains 52]

104. Smirking Chimp linked to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots..