Blue Oregon?? Really? No offense, but the comment format is really inadequate. Its harder to see who is responding to whom than on other sites.

Well done.

Congrats, Kari! But do we have to have the place slimed by the wingnut trolls every other post? There needs to be a limit on the spamming.

Where is NW Republican on that list? Oh wait, they are not! LOL!

LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER...

4 losers for you Teddie boy because 2006 and 2008 were just the beginning. You have far more more rejections of your extremist values, beliefs and policy positions to come in 2010 and well into the 2020s.

Like Degeneration X said, "Suck it!"

Oh yeah, I saw today's post on Oregon being the unhappiest state in the USA.

Great job being 2 months late on that one bitty boy. Just one more example of how much out of the loop you are.

Good for Blue Oregon on the recognition.

I hope the new visitors who come over to check things out are not put off by the sophomoric comments of the last few days.

Uh, better than Mudflats?

Congratulations, Kari and company.

Congratulations, Kari and Co!

very good

Carla! Karol! Kari! et al......Congratulations on a very honorable award and recognition. Your diligent work, even when others have harped against every word, is recognized! You deserve it. Kudos to you.

Great news - congratulations. I've read Blue Oregon for a while. I love it when Kari has that bemused, "Can you believe this is happening?" vibe and I think Carla put you over the top. The sad part is that we're still just beginning to heal the wounds inflicted by the Bush years. And another bunch of right wing zealots is stepping forth to join the old tired voices trying to rewrite history and avoid responsibility for what they've done.

 It's childish really. They're actually outraged and furious at the damage they just did to this country and their response is to throw tantrums and blame everybody else.

   So raise a glass, make a toast, then get back to work. I hope we all live long enough to see the Bush years stop hurting America.

Congrat's! Kudo's, also, to our fabulous morning crew at KPOJ who introduced BlueOregon to many of us.

Congratulations. Especially considering you had to beat off the challenge of the greatest gift to the state political coverage scene since George Wallace left Montgomery, AK Muckraker's coverage of Sarah Palin...

"...The “Good Friday Surprise Guest” on Eddie Burke’s radio show was none other than the governor herself. Eddie Burke has the #1 rated talk show in the Anchorage area on KBYR 700AM, and is the one who called the women who attended the “Alaska Women Reject Sarah Palin” rally “a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots” and then gave out their names and home phone numbers on the air, resulting in threatening phone calls. Who could have imagined THAT would happen..."

http://www.themudflats.net/2009/04/11/palin-interview-a-seven-course-salad/

congrats to Karl and the team. Keep up the great work and hope BlueOregon reaches for the stars

In spite of the pronounced pro-Democrat Party slant that pervades the opinion pieces resulting in a decidedly un-progressive atmosphere, BO is still a fun site at which to rant about local and national politics.

Congratulations on becoming the face of liberal politics in Oregon K-man!

Cheers to Kari, Jeff, Karol, Carla, Nick, Charlie and everyone else who is part of BlueOregon.

This award is a huge and well-deserved honor!

While I congratulate everyone at BlueO for this award I have to say I am more than disappointed that awards were given to the Yes on Prop 8 campaign. The fact that in technical issues they did a good job doesn't erase the fact that Hate, Ignorance, Bigotry and Inequality is the law now in CA. And to add insult to injury they're gonna get a frickin medal for it? Kinda sickening.

As a follow-up I would ask that BlueO respectfully fecline to accept the award as a protest to having our good legitimate name listed anywhere near the Yes on H8 group. I understand that the awards were given out on a bipartisan basis. That's great and I agree with the other "R" awards given out. But yes on prop H8 should not qualify. It was not a Republican campaign. It was a fundementalist campaign fueled by fear, misinformation and bigotry.

When I used to engage here, I found that we/I were/was indeed in advance of the local and sometimes national news and most media boiled down for consumption, and that we kept pace with those seeding outlets that promulgate the advance warning. We feed close to the source by dint of an active and catholically-reading "membership". I found that investment in the ownership of an idea as a sure way to wax bellicose on a regular basis. Better to keep dropping seeds and watch them eventually bloom in some bird's gut, bird not knowing where she'd imbibed that seed. And be willing to be likewise affected.

Indeed, the nuances of much during the presidential campaign and after were being fumbled by the media while I found that I had my hands around all of it as a result of my own researches and those of others. To be fair, my research was often in an effort to wrest more balance out of the partisan finger pointers here, but that motivation served me beautifully - caused me to see much more than had I merely been trying to prove a single point dearly held. Much as I sometimes dislike the tenor of this particular blog, it beats the standard fare of the run of the mill out there -- check out Breitbart to see who votes in America. I have found myself at least nominally-informed as a result of participation - admittedely it has been at least partly as a result of exasperatedly wolfing down the rantings and ravings of people who have a one-trick voice, as well as following with interest those who cannot be predicted for the fact that their sensibilities are truly engage.

In light of this, I find it disappointing that certain populations' issues continue to be marginally interesting to this group here. I do believe BO posters could benefit some others hugely if they would take some interest. Your specific bonafides give you a voice. But now those bonafides SHOULD come into this realm! The lowest common denominator media watch this and other blogs: they discuss Drudge for god's sake. Bringing the marginalized more-securely into your Action is ever more needed.

In more irritated moments I feel thus: I suppose if I showed up with a suitable Indian name given me by a Wise Old Indian Man and feathers in my hair, or perhaps put on those requisite extra four hundred pounds and my crocs sandals I might then be considered a bona fide voice reporting from a part of the planet that continues to be unrepresented. Or if I could tell you I miraculously posted to blog whilst sleeping out rough under the bridges... If I told you just how many professional niches I have inhabited that have either been wiped by poor planning or by outsourcing, and one more is poised to be sent to India by State Legislators... anyone out there? Anyone awake and alive? Economic development is a hot topic here, but not a bite or thought as to whether engaging the Leg. in terms of requiring more protections from cheapsuit outsourcing of ORegon/US jobs... not a peep!

But this is an old, old story. The organized are heard, will win. Those who simply are NOT (churches vs. native ceremonialists, I'm thinking of just now, viz tobacco legislation), just will never benefit from the kind of political process that runs this country. It requires certain things that just may be directly opposite to that which is required to go deeper into that lifeway! A solitary, representative voice is not enough - unless it is dressed up compellingly.

Despite my concerns, my disappointment, I think mosh pits like this one, where the truly erudite writings read by the members are then brought in and filtered further down - this is a really neccesary mixing place. From here, the information filters directly into media for the lay. Those who offer up the pap to the masses use our tussles and tangles here as THEIR source all too often. BO and its ilk is neccesary in the overall mix of how to make things change.

But what BlueO does is critical in a democracy, too.

Uuuuhhhhhh, no!

Hi There,

Informative! i'll definately return in future :)

G