Gotta Love The Welcome Wagon In This Neighborhood

Here, you haven't hardly moved in, but are you going to have an RSS feed?
Glad you're where you can speak your mind -- and thanks for what you do.

Absolutely love the red truck! Will wait so patiently knowing the story will be worth it.

but I'm still somewhat confused because your diary seemed rather innocuous.

PS. Meant to add this days ago.
Senator Obama in 1995: "What if a politician were to see his job as that of an organizer," he wondered, "as part teacher and part advocate, one who does not sell voters short but who educates them about the real choices before them?
Well, I noted, a few posts back in another realm, your very gentle instructions to a new blogger about how to post OT. He wanted us all to read something about Africa, really OT, but (after you deleted his comment--too early in the thread), you came back to him and carefully told him on how to insert his OT comments later in a thread and added a few hints on blogging. As a former teacher, I found this extra effort and generosity on your part rather moving. Guess even journalists can educate their readers and not sell them short. That's what you've been doing throughout this campaign. Great work, Al. Thanks.

Am I the only one who pictured an Imelda-esque fit of flying strappy sandals?

Glad you've got a home, Al, and I can be patient in my comments appearing.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/amandascott/gG5JML

Al,
Once the bugs get worked out I hope to see some more comments posted. It's feeling lonely here! I just send a laundry list to DB who, for those of you who want to do the same on your IT issues, is the webmaster@narconews.com

I really liked what Barry Crimmins wrote -these are the times that you find out who everyone REALLY is.

Geez Louise, I'm listening to Obama in Detroit and wow - the guy was just getting warmed up in the primary!! And this isn't a comparison to Gore. God love him but he still can put me to sleep in five minutes flat. But Obama is seriously on fire - really strong words of support for Clinton and seemed genuine. He's a better person than me for sure. I think the Republicans are going to be blown away by our self-described "4th Quarter" guy.

I have an active imagination, especially in moments of little information.

First, I thought that Al was taking a much-needed vacation but that's strange because he would have given us some notice. Then, I thought that he must be recovering from one of those wicked viruses because he dropped off the face of the Web.

Then, I saw the link @ DKos. Who'd a thunk?

Al, you being at home over here just feels right.

I'm really grateful to the ning site pioneers for setting us up over there and distributing the map to the field hands.
Thanks for your work so far and for continuing it. I am learning so much from you & the regulars.

Being able to comment from my iPhone is great too!

Hope this goes thru ok.

Just remember Al(and the techies)once things warm up during the general your servers are going to need afterburners!!!

Lets us know if we can help.

Glad to have found the site.....nice to see everyone's made the transition.

Thanks, Al.

Onward.

Greetings Al...just checking in, throwing some stress on the system. Glad to see we are up and running. By all means gather the ducks in a row before revealing the tale of travel. We can wait.

Over at the Obama site, they are touting the speech with Gore as live. It's over now. Is there a link to an archived video anywhere? I'd love to see them both on stage together. I've been looking forward to this moment for eight months.

Looking forward to more shoes dropping.

That the tradition media is finally waking up to the McCain double talk:

Dana Milbank in the WaPo

"He waltzed to the right on Iraq ("I am convinced that we are on the path to victory!") and economics ("He wants to raise taxes; I want to lower them"). He swung to the left on his bipartisan achievements: "I worked with Senator Kennedy on immigration. I worked with Senator Feingold on campaign finance reform. . . . I worked with Senator Dorgan in the investigation of the Abramoff scandal." He promenaded back to the right on guns and God: "I won't tell them that, in small towns across America and Pennsylvania, that they are bitter . . . so therefore they embrace religion and the Second Amendment."

And sometimes he tried to have it both ways. He spoke up for the "unique status of marriage between man and woman," then suggested he would let states make their own choices, saying, "I also feel that the people of California will probably make a decision on this."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR200806...

I'm already feeling at home and anticipating Al's full story. I'm sure it's worth the wait. Also, like the reply option to commenters.

which may have already occurred to you...

Before I got my trusty Fieldhands email informing me of the new address, I did a search on Google for 'Al Giordano The Field' to try to find you. The second site that pops up is you, but I didn't realize it at the time, because the title of your homepage is "the narcosphere." If the page title had "The Field" in there somewhere, it might help those fieldhands who are still lost in the wilderness to find their way to the new home.

So just to clarify, these time stamps are Eastern right?

Clearly there will be no on consensus on this issue, but if you're taking votes, I prefer one constant thread of comments rather than sub-comments. Comments get lost upthread that way unless you go back up and look for them.

Glad to see your comrades (oops is that a dangerous word? Oh well, doesn't matter here!) giving you some coverage. Crimmins did a great job. :) Your callout to them also provided me with some new reading material.

Link to Al Gore and Obama from tonight
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/491629

Could you add some space between the Commments link and the Title Of The Post below on the homepage, or is it only my screen where everything is bunched together?

and look forward to your posts. However your "cause a few more shoes to drop" does cause me some concern. I've been involved in the grime and glory of board wars and I'm narcisstic enough to be looking forward to the gory details so why my concern?

One of the things that has made "The Field" authentic to me was my belief that when you praised or dissed politicians etc it was because that was how you felt you would or wouldn't act in similar situations, especially coming from a community organizer background yourself. Since it was so recent the post that comes to mind was about Obama disinvesting from his VP vetter Johnson. You said he did it with class, he did it quickly, and he did it humanely. He praised Johnson, thanked him for his service, then accepted his "brokered" resignation. I liked your take on that.

Now of course I don't know the gory details about this split from RuralVotes but your first blog's "press conference" and promise of fascinating struggle did raise questions in my mind about your authenticity in regards to specifically how to disinvest without harm. I can be just about as much of an "Al" groupie as the rest of us and even posted my snarky "I'm out of here" comment over on the old field. But as I read more and more of the field hands comments, especially over there, and the dismissiveness and blatant disrespect shown to someone that sure is an Obama convention delegate but more so was someone who interacted, good or bad, with all fieldhands and I felt that the spirit of classy disinvestment you detailed so well in the Obama/Johnson incident didn't quite carry over into your own dealings.

If only your first blog had said something even if unflowery along the lines of "Due to differences of opinion with the managment we have decided to relocate the Field here. We thank RV for hosting us for so long but respectively have declined to continue the relationship." If only that then the fieldhands would have have probably still been snarky but not down right rude as some of those long deleted comments were. More Fieldhands would have been able to hold their heads up and say, "we disinvested with class" also.

Now not knowing the gory details, which of course I'm as eagerly awaiting as anyone who's been told they're coming, you more than likely had reasons to swat and to swat hard. I'm just having a disconnect because I can't decide which is the true Al. The tell-all reporter saving us from that nasty RV site or the connoisseur of forthright politicians with a mean left hook and velvet gloves.

When I read about the "gory" details, I will be looking for the purpose of the post and I'm not sure that calling the Fieldhands to fight the good fight will be enough.