May 15, 2008

American Thinker now accepting comments

editor's note
Beginning today, readers of American Thinker are enabled to submit comments for publication on our article and blog pages. This follows as a direct result of the generosity of hundreds of readers who have donated to our first-ever fundraiser this month.

We look forward to intelligent and worthy commentary from our readers. We will not screen out contrary views, but there will be quality standards applied. All comments will be monitored before posting, so there will be a time lag between submission of a comment and its appearance on the relevant page. Please keep comments polite, do not libel anyone or engage in personal attacks. Please limit comments to the topic of the blog or article. Digressive comments will not be posted. Keep in mind that having a comment posted is not a right but a privilege.

We will no doubt encounter dilemmas and glitches along the way, so please bear with us as we work our way through these inevitable teething issues.
 But we look forward to becoming a broader forum and enjoying the wisdom and thought of our readers.

Comments

AT is the best editorial site available and can only get better with commentary from those who read it. Good Luck!

There is so much more to the issue of Barack Obama's church than just Mr. Wright. If the Obamas never knew of a single word spoken by this preacher in twenty years, there is still the congregation they were part of; those who were cheering the words of this angry demagogue and standing in awe before his fiery presence. This is the village that raised the Obama children, forming that family into whatever they have become. Jeremiah Wright beseeched God to damn America, but the Obama's friends and fellow church members cheered those words.
Pastors come and go, but these people have been the constant in the lives of the Barack and Michelle Obama family.

Thanks, but there is one glitch: the 'Remember personal info?' option doesn't work.

That means that each time I submit a comment to AT, my personal info doesn't appear in the spaces provided automatically. Each time I write a comment, and I've written 3 already, I must fill out all these personal data boxes manually once again. It'd be cool if someone amended this.

BTW, there's a spelling error there: 'braoder' instead of 'broader'.

Rgds
Zbigniew Mazurak

Pushing free speach, yada, yada, yada. But we will censor you, yada, yada, yada.

Rules for thee, but not for me. Ha ha.

This is great! I usually contact the writer to let them know that I love their piece, but there's not always a way to contact all of the writers.

I am a senior citizen and check your site daily. The insights I find are extrememly valuable in my understanding of present-day issues.

I am very happy your site is expanding. Thank you for your informative forum.

Oh, one more thing: will these comments be enabled for all articles in the AT domain, or only those that appear no earlier than this day? I don't know about others, but there are a few articles published several months ago that I'd comment on, if I could.

If you do plan on enabling the former, however, I understand that it will take you much time to technically enable this. Thanks in advance for a response.

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Eventually we will have comments enabled throughout the site.

R.Moran

Thank you! AT is one of my top bookmarks and I don't start my day without it.

At last! I get to comment, and now I have nothing to add to the commentary.

A very good addition to an already great site. Keep up the good work & beware of spam.

Awesome!!!

AT has become required reading for me each day. Please continue to bring well thought out intelligent material to your readers.

Thank You!!! You are an aid to my sanity every day!

Good stuff! thank you. AT has been my homepage for a year or more.

Comments: A good addition. Now we can sound off when a post strikes a nerve while the contributors can see the reaction of the readers. They will know that when they shout into cyberspace they are being heard.

I look forward to commenting to this site

I look forward to the comments of my fellow American Thinker fans.

Great! Now I can thank Clarice Feldman and James Lewis for their brilliant and thoughtful commentary on a regular basis. Of course, there are others, as well. They just happen to be my favorites. Wonderful!

Thank You!
DKK

American Thinker is my daily dose of reality in all realms of life. Thank you for all you do and wishing you many more incredible years (and upgrades) to come!

Excellent! I look forward to leaving comments which advance the post, just as I would ask someone who commented on my site to do. I've found AT to be an excellent resource and now it can only get better.

What a welcome improvement!
Thank you.

This is wonderful news, Thomas!!!
And I totally agree with some of the others, AMERICAN THINKER IS the BEST SITE I CAN FIND. AT is also the 1st thing I read too. American Thinker has honesty, integrity and respect. Those things are very lacking in our world these days, especially with the MSM and some of the awful news commentators and talk show hosts. Many of them have no integrity, respect or values. That also goes for many of the politicians in office too.

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I love this site and read it every day. Thank you for allowing readers to vent. My first offering:
Why can't anyone write a coherent sentence any more? Almost every article and comment on this and other sites, not to speak of the newspapers, is full of improper usage (to instead of too), misspellings and ridiculous sentence structure. Most of this is from so-called "journalists", who should be first and foremost "wordsmiths". Doesn't anyone read their material before posting? I think it is called proofreading.

A courageous website because of Thomas Lifson and crew. What most of us don't see is the strain such places on those who decided to undertake the mission of an opinion website that won't be cowed by the Left's Politically Correct New Speak. It takes EEFORT to make a web site like this shine and flourish, and with little hope of reward.

First of all, I have been reading this website for the past three years, more or less, and it's allowed me to verbalized how I feel about many of the issues that concern us as Americans. Patrick Casey's article on the deterioration of the GOP hits it right on the nail. Where do conservative minded people go? Actually the Democrats are making a shrewed move by running conservative Democrats in basically Republican districts---but I don't see the Democrats making a big ideological jump to the center, not with who is in charge presently. I am not ready to jump over to the NY Conservative Party as is Sean Hannity----perhaps I have too much of a libertarian streak for that. I really wonder what the thinking is in the RNC? Are they that cocky that they feel we'll just hold our noses and vote for John McCain regardless? Unfortunately that's what I'll wind up doing.

I can't comment on your comment article "http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/05/a_few_glitches_on_comments_fea.html"

AT has become essential reading for me as well. I can't go one day without thoroughly reading each article. I am constantly sending the articles to everyone I know, and hopefully they are reading. AT is just superb -- I don't think you will find more intelligent and thoughtful commentary anywhere. God bless all of you!

Thanks for the opportunity to comment regarding articles on your wonderful web site. Yours in a most wonderful oasis in the constant dry liberal media dust storm, keep up the great work.

Hi,
Last night they had Obama on TV from S. Dakota. And he praised former Senator (looser) Tom Daschel. I had to flip the TV off. It is Obama at night, and when I get up & turn the TV on, it is Obama again. With all his stuttering, and bad speaking. Tonight I had to flip the channel, to Turner Classic Movies. I think it is Sidney Poitier weekend. So I watched his black & white movies, great. Now I do not have to bug Thomas, the editor with emails.
We just don't get any news anymore on TV, it is just Barack, Barack, Barack. I have to turn the TV off and listen to classical music.
But reading American Thinker each day gives me my sanity back each day.
The best site on the web is AT.
Layla

The story behind Obama's meteoric rise and the characters behind him need to be made clearer to the public. While many contributors to A.T did some of the best journalistic work in the media, their coverage has not been noticed by the MSM, in full support for BHO. Don't give up and thank you!

Thanks AT.

I regret a mistake happened to
my last comments,which I lost
before it was finished. It was quite revealing but I don`t really want to write it
all again. Sorry

Just to make it short,I would
like to make important points
again,that I had lost.
Deceptions,lies and the re -
writing of history plus all
political correctness have to
be stopped in the interest of
humanity.
Ancient Persia was once led
by a great humanitarian King,
whose name was Cyrus.His
belief was that every human
being should be free of slavery. So, he helped the
Jews who were in Babylonian
captivity and whose beloved
Temple was destroyed, by freeing them plus giving them
the means from his own treasury to rebuild their
Temple. The ancient monument
to this King is or was still
standing recently in that
country, now known as Iran.
Then the country`s leader
decided to destroy the
monument to wipe out every
memory to that King, that the
world may still hold. Instead
being proud of his country`s
heritage he wants to see it
destroyed like all Islamists
want for truth to be eliminated. The reason is that King Cyrus had a shattering experience in the
progress of freeing the Jews,
that made him publish his now
famous decree:"Let all my
subjects honour the God of
Israel,He is the God,who is
in Jerusalem."
Another shameful untruth is
that for example the so called "Palestinians" who in
truth are Arabs,insist,that
they are the original
inhabitants of the land and
that there has never been a
Jewish presence,even though
archeology brings almost
daily Israeli artifacts to the light of day and no old
Palestinian ones whatsoever.
It so happens that I get
regular emails from an
organisation by the name of
Islam watch,that consists of
ex-Muslims. They are in
possession of various old
Islamic books,one of them
telling that their prophet
at visiting Damascus,also
visited Jerusalem and it`s
Temple-mound and saw there
the Temple of Solomon. Well,
of course the Muslims will
say Solomon was a Muslim
King, so was King David and
several other Jewish Kings.
Someone without any knowledge
as to history may believe this. I wished someone would
really give them a lecture
in history and make them
aware that they are the
invaders and occupiers,not
the Jews and may I add,that
already in the early chapters
of The Old Testament it is
foretold that the descendants
of the ancient Israelites
will return to their former
land and mark this well, in
the 20th Cent. actually at
the date when it happened,if
you know of the Jewish method
of counting days,weeks,months
and years.
The Koran made no prophecies
about the Arab-Palestinians.
I wish the American president
was more loyally disposed
towards Israel,instead of
trying to build a rogue state

Hello, it's good to see that you added commenting options. I'll try to post more in reply to various articles whenever I can. The site certainly does have good stuff.

Mostly I agree with y'all. More comments come when folks disagree. I hope to see less!

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