During the Revolution, I took a hiatus from writing on anything partisan. I didn't want to damage the Left-Right unity on the issue. More importantly, my personal political beliefs had no place in something that belonged not to me, but to the Ukrainian people.
With Yushchenko's victory, I've transitioned back to covering foreign affairs and American politics from a conservative perspective. I try to do it with charity, humor and originality. I hate shrillness or cant from any political persuasion. My hope is that our liberal friends will stick around and keep providing alternative perspectives here.
Most importantly, I want to make it clear that I'm going to keep my Ukraine news free of any partisanship. If you see ANY sort of conservative bias creep into my commentary, please call me on it.
Posted by Discoshaman at janvier 15, 2005 12:36 AM | TrackBack
I really, really appreciate your keeping partisanship out of the Ukraine coverage, and I will be only TOO happy to call you on it if it drifts.
As a sign of how much the Ukrainian events brought left and right together, it is worth noting that I first learned of this blog via Soj (www.weblog.ro/soj), who also posts on dailykos.com.
And, as you will see with my post on the Dean thread, I am sticking around. Hope others do, too.
But then, I consider myself somewhere between the European concepts of liberal and (modern-day) social democratic more than what passes for "liberal" in the US context.
I appreciate the quality writing and though-provoking commentary here on a wide range of topics, though it is surely the prospect of learning something about Ukraine that I can't get anywhere else that will keep me coming back.
Posted by: Matt S at janvier 15, 2005 04:28 AMMatt: I hope Disco won't mind me flogging my own blog here, but one of my first posts there was on the need to take away the weapon that the right has made of the word "liberal". My own party affiliation is Green, and for many years I also felt that the L-word didn't really accurately describe my views. But if people are willing to apply the once-respectable term "conservative" to the Bush administration's bull-in-a-china-shop policies, not to mention the Republicans' blatant corruption and contempt for the democratic process here in Texas, then I'm ready to run with a big-tent conception of "liberal".
Posted by: Michael at janvier 15, 2005 06:46 PM