An Introduction

Hello.

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jeremy and this is my weblog (or "blog" as they are sometimes called). As you may have surmised, it is a political blog. Why start a political blog? Well, I was surfing around the internet and found the political blog world to be dangerously underpopulated. So here I am to the rescue. I hope this blog will inform, entertain, and occassionally lull you to sleep. I hope it grows and encourage your feedback in that endeavor. I know the blog world is huge and filled with a big boys (the Kos-es, the Americablogs, and Crooks and Liars) and a million other small fishes. I am aware I am but another fish. But I wouldn't have created this blog if I didn't feel that I too could contribute... in my own small way.

It should be noted that I am no 'newbie' to the world of political blogging. I started writing about politics last summer when I started my LiveJournal community- Religion, Politics, and the Great Pumpkin. You can read a year's worth of archives of my writing there. I have re-posted some of my recent entries below just to get this new ball rolling. Originally this community was created for my friends to discuss the 2004 presidential election. However, I soon commandeered the community as my own and began to use it as a... well, blog of my political thoughts and stories of interest. So I decided it would be best to start a real blog and make it official.

A little bit about myself before I begin. I am a liberal. Up through college, I was actually a moderate conservative (for the most part), but have never aligned myself with any major party (I am registered independent). My move towards being liberal began in late 2000. In 2000, I rooted for Sen. McCain to win the Republican primaries; alas, he did not. So I voted for Al Gore, having been a fan of President Clinton and also respecting Gore for his strong environmental stance. I was sure he would win- I was positive the majority of Americans would not vote for an intellectually challenged, born-again Christian with a string of failed businesses, trading on his family name. It turned out I was right. But he ended up President anyway. This electoral injustice was where I first began to realize how far this country had moved politically and that I shared different values. Could I be... liberal? It seemed possible. My change cemented in lower Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001. As I made my way uptown from a neighborhood that had just been attacked by terrorists, a lot of political issues and policies I had never even given much thought to before were swimming in my mind and I began to fear the thought of a country at war under the leadership of men with dubious priorities. As the years of George Bush's leadership continued, I became more and more dillusioned with the state of the union and the dumbed-down level of our national political dialogue. I had/have many thoughts about these matters and, last year, decided to write about them.

And that's how I got here. I hope my little fish of a blog will be able to find a place in this large sea of political discussion. I invite feedback and criticism about this (whether it's the content or aesthetics of this blog). Thanks for reading; if even one new person finds this blog of interest/help, than I am greatful.

[My old LiveJournal archives:
Religion, Politics, and the Great Pumpkin - Calendar View]