The first thing I do when I drag myself out of my coffin in the morning is to look here for comments.
It is a real disappointment when I look at the bottom of an article and see that (0) as the number of comments. This is my personal place. This is my personal talk. This is my personal conversation, and you know what happens to people who just talk to themselves.
Seriously, though, Don and Elizabeth have been doing most of the comments, and I appreciate them deeply. I don’t want to discourage them. But I would like to have some more people drop a line here.
A couple of the statements here were very hostile. That’s fine with me. You don’t spend a lifetime in politics and expect people to be nice to you all the time. Insults are a dime a dozen, and I will look beneath the anger to see if there is something I need to answer or something I need to change or reconsider.
At least the people who insult me give a damn about what I’m talking about, and for a political fanatic like me, the subject is a lot more important to me than one more negative opinion.
Look, not only do I write this mess, I put my name on it. If I am ready to face embarrassment like that, the least you can do is to make a few comments under an assumed name.
#1 by Jay on 10/10/2004 - 5:14 pm
I think it would be inappropriate to leave the number of comments to this entry at (0), so here you go.
#2 by Horace on 10/10/2004 - 6:28 pm
I do wish Don would get a life. He’s beginning to get on my nerves.
#3 by Don on 10/11/2004 - 1:39 pm
Who asked you, Horace? What did you do, finish reading “How to Make Comments for Dummies?
#4 by Bob on 10/11/2004 - 6:00 pm
I do not want my readers insulting each other.
I want to do that.
Don gets in here. Most of the readers don’t. If you don’t want want Don to dominate, get in here yourself.
I don’t want Jay jumping on Don. I want Jay jumping on ME.
Take old Bob’s ego into account. I am not trying to make peace here. My problem is that when Jay and Don talk about each other, they are NOT talking about the writings of the greatest writer who ever lived.
I am too modest to say who that writer is.
#5 by Richard L. Hardison on 10/11/2004 - 8:08 pm
I do not resemble that remark! I use my real name. I’m not ashamed to say I read the Great Bob Whitaker, the greatest writer who ever lived!
#6 by RHSmith on 10/11/2004 - 10:06 pm
Having read you material for months now the only reason I don’t comment much it that it’s like you’re already reading my mind.
#7 by Jay on 10/12/2004 - 12:28 am
Hey! Who dragged me into this? “Jay” wasn’t jumping on anybody! I like Don’s comments.
#8 by Jay on 10/12/2004 - 2:30 am
I have a comment on one of you links: Scriptures for America. Since when has Bob Whitaker become a Bible Beater?
Maybe my Catholic upbrining helped prejudice me, but I’ve always been wary of Bible Beaters.
#9 by Don on 10/12/2004 - 9:42 am
Four score and seven days ago (poetic license) Bob began his Blog dedicated to the proposition that ………….. Now his Blog entry on comments has received the most comments ever. It is only fitting and proper that we do this. (if that doesn’t get Bob going, I don’t know what will.)
I must admit that I, like Bob, enjoy reading comments. From other people besides me. I am basically a one issue person. I won’t divulge what that issue is, but I wouldn’t trade one hair on George Washington’s head for every president from FDR on, and throw in WW and AL for good measure.
So make Bob’s day and my day, and keep the dialogue going.
PS. I have to make a confession. When Bob mentioned an assumed name, I assumed the name of Horace for that one comment. Henceforth, if Horace needs to say something, he will be well behaved.
#10 by Bob on 10/12/2004 - 10:40 am
Jay, I got you and “Horace” mixed up.
Sorry, but I was scatter-brained long before I got senile.
Also to Jay, Scriptures for America is pro-white and, more important, they have done more to promote my book than anyone but my little team. They bought a thousand copies. Reverend Peters had two interviews with me and mentioned my book regularly.
I am very grateful to sfaw. It has done many times as much for my book than all the WOL readers combined.
#11 by Bob Whitaker on 10/12/2004 - 12:58 pm
RH Smith, you just read MY mind!
I have said before that what I want a reader of whitakeronline to think, “So THAT’s what I was thinking!”
Things that occur to you are things that I think out and express. I am, quite literally, the voice of sanity. I am the voice of sane people whose minds did not die in college.
That is why I write this stuff. It tends to spread, because people recognize it as heresy and sanity.
If you think I am being modest, I’m not. C.S. Lewis said, “The Great Teachers do not teach new truths. They remind us of what we already know.”
#12 by Jay on 10/13/2004 - 12:40 am
Regarding Scriptures of America:
Read a little of their site. I found it a little out there, but hey, if they’re pro-white, more power to ’em!
#13 by Don on 10/13/2004 - 8:20 am
Regarding Scriptures of America:
If you’re on the same side of the fence as me, I am going to cut you a lot of slack.