You Like Him, You Really Like Him!

December 11, 2006 - 7:42 PM by Allison

David Bogner at Treppenwitz is having a Sally Field moment upon learning that he was nominated for a Weblog Award, and appears to be a bit conflicted about whether or not to troll for votes. Seems like he doesn’t want to get his hopes up:

I feel like a complete poseur waking up here in the finalist box… but it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that I’ll end up dead last, since I’m:

a) a citizen of the evil spawn of the Great Satan

b) not able to garner the sympathy vote like bloggers who can wave around an active civil war, genocide, or similar local tragedy on their blogs.

c) a daddy-blogger who ends up nearly drowning every time I wade into the shallow end of the politics pool.

d) moderately famous among only dozens! [to paraphrase the tag-line from one of my favorite bloggers]

Even if the JIBs (Jewish & Israeli Blog Awards) would have taken place again this year I had sort of decided that I wasn’t going to participate. I figured that besides letting some of the up-and-coming Jblogs out there have their moment in the sun, I really didn’t enjoy all the anxiety of watching the voting process unfold.

Yet, here I am in another horse race. A race that will last 10 anxiety-filled days!

So here’s what I propose.

If you enjoy this site and want to spare me the shame of being at the absolute bottom of the dog-pile, please go cast your vote for treppenwitz.

Oh, David, why not go for the gusto? Say, “dammit, I want to win this sucker, vote for me!”

Hey, if an Israeli woman can win a Muslim blogging award, anything is possible.

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