Engaging my fellow Virginians online...

My local large circulation newspaper, the Virginian-Pilot has several online "Guestbooks" where people can engage in debate and discussion in a more flexible way than writing formal letters to the editor (where you're only allowed one letter every 5 months) . There's a several-hour (occasionally several-day) lag while your post is vetted by the mods, but from what I've seen, it's pretty wide open. If you haven't done so, I suggest that you do a web search to see if your local paper has something similiar.

What's particularly encouraging (to me, at least) is how many Kerry supporters are posting on the "Who won the third debate?" page (here), considering that common wisdom has been saying that this region is a slam dunk for the Rebublicans.

I'm posting my latest contribution to the guestbook, mainly because I'm including a link to an NPR report from August 20, 1998 about how Clinton tried to take out Osama Bin Laden on that day. I really recommend the NPR website. You can search for news stories dating back all the way to 1996. A very good fact-checking resource if you want to answer Republican attacks.

( Here's my latest post, typos corrected )

It's a double reply. I'm not including the two posts I'm replying to, because I don't have permission from the respective authors. But you can probably work out what their main points were. That NPR report is particularly spooky to go back and listen to.

Edit 1: (Cross-posted to my personal LJ: johnkerry04)

Edit 2: Today, one of the people we Kerry supporters have been sparring with over the last few weeks posted saying that, thanks to us, he'll be switching his vote to Kerry, even though he's a life-long Republican... but still mocked us for blindly following anyone who wasn't Bush. :::sigh:::. /me doesn't understand, but that's okay...