Which of the candidates allow public comments to appear on their webpage?

[yurbud]

In 2004, I was struck that there were discussion boards on Kerry's site and nothing comparable on Bush's--Bush want the information to all flow down hill.

I just followed a link to Joe Biden's page about his Iraq policy and wanted to mention that it didn't discuss how oil income was divided between ALL Iraqis and the oil companies, the draft oil law that Bush and congress like gave 88% to big oil and left 12% for the Iraqis to divide among themselves, but there was no place to put that comment where others reading the article would see it.

http://www.joebiden.com/issues/?id=0009

In his blog section, there is no place for public comment, just a couple of words that say SEND US YOUR COMMENTS, but isn't even a live link.
http://blog.joebiden.com/

What a fucking coward. Or maybe just a narcissist who doesn't really care what anyone else thinks.


Edwards is not perfect, but he does have a place for public comment and even public blogs where I have posted stuff busting his balls that was posted and not taken down.

If you go to the link, note the START YOUR OWN DIARY and SUBMIT A BLOG ENTRY links. At the end of the stories, note the DISCUSS links.

http://blog.johnedwards.com/story/2007/11/16/114947/85#commenttop


Hillary has a blog feature on her site, though the entries I looked at and comments were 99% positive. The harshest comment was from someone who didn't really like the candidates in either party, but thought Hillary was the best of a bad lot.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/blog/view/?id=16443#view_comments

To her credit, she does link to outside blogs that are critical of her.

On Obama's site, he has a blog and public comment feature. While the comments were all positive in the story I looked at, they were ungaurded enough that they were probably all real people and not just staffers regurgitating praise of their boss.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post_group/ObamaHQ/CxnH


Dennis Kucinich has an extensive blog and forum feature, comparable to what Air America or other lefty talk radio hosts might put up.
http://action.dennis4president.com/forum/

Richardson has a blog section that allows public comment.

http://action.richardsonforpresident.com/page/community/post_group/Headquarters/CLry#comments

Dodd has blog that allows public comment.

http://chrisdodd.com/blog/sen.-dodd%2526%2523039%3Bs-principle

He also has a cool feature for harassing Congress
http://chrisdodd.com/immunity

If you have had any odd experiences posting to these sites, which makes them look more like astroturf than actual comments and forums, post that in a response.

[TwilightZone]

1. "What a fucking coward."

Maybe he'd rather not have silly comments like that on his website.

[gateley]

2. Good topic -- they should all feature public comment sections and links to

blogs.