This is my first diary, although I've been a reader of this site off and on since the 2004 election.  While there are still great diaries that come out of this site, there have been some increasingly questionable diaries shooting up the Recommended list.

Here are a few right wing sites that have taken notice of MyDD recently:

http://redstate.com/stories/elections/20 08/i_am_not_going_to_say_thank_you_mydd

http://www.instapundit.com/#017166

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/30/my dd-watch-out-for-the-evil-gop-doing-some thing-like-this/

Honestly guys and gals, is this really where we want to be as a group?  We've got right wing blogs citing OUR WORK and either wholeheartedly agreeing with it (per the comments) or actually condemning it as too radical and tasteless.  Talk about making news for all the wrong reasons.

Here's another diary (http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/20/1420 52/602) that made the Recommended list, and it literally cites a website called "Creeping Sharia" as one of the sources.  The site is incredibly anti-Muslim, and some of the posts on it will make your skin crawl.

"News alert for the Obama's, Reuters, CAIR and all the other Qur'an thumping, hadith reading, paradise seeking, martyr's to be: get used to this crap because until Muslims start embracing a civilized way of life that does not include killing non-believers, beheading, wife beating, multiple wives, inbreeding, destruction of Israel, suicide bombings, and intifada - until then, the resistance to Islam and Muslims will grow."

Anyway, back to the diary that has received all of the attention from Republicans lately.  I truly never thought that I would see a video here of the most terrible day in America's history (at least the most terrible in my lifetime) being used as political propaganda against a fellow Democrat.  Instead of preparing ourselves for the dirty work of GOP 527's, we've got users who are doing the actual legwork for those 527's and using material that makes partisan right wingers blush.  Not only that, our own users are sending these types diaries to the Recommended list.  It has gotten to the point where right wing blogs are citing US, THIS SPECIFIC BLOG as examples of how nasty Democrats are getting.  Please, this kind of nasty stuff has to stop... for the sake of our party and the sake of this site.  

Supporters of both candidates need to raise the level of discourse here, because if this type of stuff continues to escalate for either Clinton or Obama, we will be handing the White House to the Republicans in November.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and any comments/suggestions are more than welcome.