A Weblog of Centrist Voices in American Politics
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June 29, 2005Center-Left BlogsAt TPMCafe, there is a thread where people list their blogs. A number are centrists that will be familiar to you. I came across a few others that looked interesting, mostly center-left rather than pure centrist. Let me know what you think of them http://bloggingsbyboz.blogspot.com/ Comments
I would argue there's no such thing, really, as *pure* center, unless you count... "I haven't decided yet"... Posted by: Ryan at June 29, 2005 03:22 PMThink you're correct. With that in mind, how would you categorize Centerfield- left or right of center? I think slightly more leftish- but, as D. Miller says, "that's just my opinion- I could be wrong." Posted by: kreiz at June 29, 2005 03:58 PMYou asked for it... Bloggings By Boz is interesting. It seems to be focused on Mexico quite a bit. I find that interesting because this is an area that I don’t know a lot about. The blogroll is mostly leftists with the occasional centrist thrown in for flavor. The commentary is generally left of center but not over the top. Overall this one is pretty good. Reasonably Ascertainable Reality is more predictably left wing but there are some occastional flashes of moderation. She tends to get caught up in the unusual bugbears (Coulter, Falwell, Delay, Hanity) and has far too many quotes from the usual suspects on the far left to be called centrist but still it’s hard to hate a Pong fan. I would rate this one okay. I would have gone lower but her take on sports is pretty interesting. Here is the “about” quote from Left Center Left “A grad student (in Film Studies at Brown Univ.), Chris Cagle (not to be confused with the country music star) ran the Marxists for Keynes weblog for a year before changing it over to Left Center Left. The idea for the weblog is to provide analysis on current events and culture from a revisionist left perspective. Left because it seeks many of the goals traditionally on the left - economic equality, provision the public good, growth of international governance - but also because it sees class and economic interest as crucial driving forces in American politics and world history. Revisionist because mainstream economics and a contrarian bent drives it to conclusions not considered liberal in the current political spectrum. It's for free trade, for instance, and standardized educational testing. Left, in other words, of the center-left politics of the Democratic Leadership Council, but to the center of the Greens and the anti-globalization folks.” In other words he’s left of center left and right of far left. I would call that just plain left but whatever. The posts are generally well written and well thought out. This site might be a bit too masshole-centric for those of you living outside of the PR of Massachusetts but he’s worth a weekly glance. I give this one a good. Wash Your Bowl. This guy self identifies as a centrist Democrat. I read the entire site in search of any evidence of his cenrism but did not find it. I am reminded of a poster on Democratic Underground to claimed that DUers are the real center and everything to the right of that is “right wing.” If that theory is true this guy is a centrist. My main issue with this site is that there is no value added. You gain nothing from reading this that you wouldn’t get from reading Kos or MyDD other than descriptions of a stranger’s trip to Target with his kids. This one rates fair to poor.
Unfortunately, aside from the Charging RINO, there appears to be a dearth of moderate GOP blogs out there that I've found...I hope to bolster to their number by one at some point in the next two weeks. :) Posted by: Simon at June 29, 2005 04:26 PMTruth Laid Bear has a section for RINO blogs. There is quite a list of them over there. I would like to see a list of DINO blogs to match it but there are very few. Posted by: Alf at June 29, 2005 04:30 PMThanks for the link. Great site you have here. I'm a centrist Democrat. I tend to write about Latin America and US foreign policy in general, and this week has been heavy on Mexico and Iraq issues for some reason. Posted by: boz at June 29, 2005 09:07 PMSimon, The Moderate Republican is a good moderate Republican blog. Dean's World is right of center (if you can stomache heavy support for the Iraq war). And Booker Rising is moderate right in bent. And, if there really is no "true center" then I'd say we over at The Yellow Line probably fall to the right more often than not. But you should definitely start a blog. The more strong voices the better. Posted by: Alan at June 30, 2005 10:44 AMThis is very helpful. Jeremy (ChargingRINO) and I have been in touch for some time, pretty much since I began The Reaction, with links to each other's blogs, and he certainly qualifies as one of the better center-right bloggers out there. I seconded his efforts over at TPM Cafe, suggesting that we keep a separate blogroll and e-mail list of participants in the Reader Blogs section. Quite a few have "signed up," but, obviously, the quality is all over the place, as the reviews here indicate. Some of the writing is quite poor, some have few posts (and even fewer that are interesting), and, of course, where you are on the political spectrum is often a matter of personal perspective. If you think that Daily Kos is centrist, for example, you're in trouble. For now, I'd say that Boz is the stand-out. (I'll be e-mailing soon to suggest cross-listing to my blog.) Otherwise, Alf's assessment's are right on -- though I'd actually be a bit more critical of the others. RAR is okay, at times, but there's too much sports and it's a bit all over the place. Actually, Left Center Left is decent, too. But Wash Your Bowl and Cessation of Civility are poor. This is very helpful. Jeremy (ChargingRINO) and I have been in touch for some time, pretty much since I began The I seconded his efforts over at TPM Cafe, suggesting that we keep a separate blogroll and e-mail list of participants in the Reader Blogs section. Quite a few have "signed up," but, obviously, the quality is all over the place, as the reviews here indicate. Some of the writing is quite poor, some have few posts (and even fewer that are interesting), and, of course, where you are on the political spectrum is often a matter of personal perspective. If you think that Daily Kos is centrist, for example, you're in trouble. For now, I'd say that Boz is the stand-out. (I'll be e-mailing soon to suggest cross-listing to my blog.) Otherwise, Alf's assessment's are right on -- though I'd actually be a bit more critical of the others. RAR is okay, at times, but there's too much sports and it's a bit all over the place. Actually, Left Center Left is decent, too. But Wash Your Bowl and Cessation of Civility are poor. You know, my computer does not like the comments on this site. My html never works right. I was trying to provide links to the above sites and somehow everything just got underlined. The first couple of times this happened, I assume I was incompetent, now I'm pretty sure there's an interface problem, although I don't even know if that's possible. Anyway, all the sites mentioned above are linked to either on the blogroll here or at my site. Posted by: Alan at June 30, 2005 01:06 PMHi, I'm the Wash Your Bowl guy. I welcome the comments, even if they are not exactly glowing praise. I just started this and am still feeling my way around it. he has something of a point. It'd be like trying to miss the broad side of a barn.. Posted by: Ryan at June 30, 2005 04:06 PMI have responded to the above criticisms in a little more detail back on washyourbowl.blogspot.com Posted by: edgeofkaos at June 30, 2005 11:12 PMThe criticism of Bush I put up could, and does, come from the left and the center-left.'nuff said. the GOP so dominates the landscape at the moment that it's hard to move off in a different directionTo use a well-worn '60's term; that's a cop out. If its 100 degress outside and everyone says "Its so hot!" is there really a compelling need to explain "how cool it actually is". Don't feel compelled to "swim upstream". Personally, I put much more stock in folks who have no agenda (i.e. generally being for... or generally being against...) Posted by: c3 at July 1, 2005 01:10 AM |
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