Nice, but you show your partisan blinkers while trying to be neutral.

Don't blame Davin. He, I and quite a few others tried a few months back on this. didn't work as you can see.
(Dredge up the "pledge" thread on this very board for details)

"I. You are doing to others exactly what you are accusing them of doing. To fix this problem;
A. Keep all your flames on the flame board "

Agree, at least with the A part.

"B. Try to start, or contribute to, positive threads on the Zone. It is easy to bitch and complain about everything. It is harder to contribute and build. "

Absolutely agree. But those kinds of posts get little traction. ;-)

"II. Both sides are guilty of trashing CE. "
Agree completely

"A. The Left is posting stuff they know will irritate the Right. "
Blinkered. Equally valid for the converse.

"B. The Right is responding with anger "
Ditto

"C. Both sides end up in a flame-out "
Agree

"D. If the Left wants to criticize the President, that is their right, but do it in a more civil way, and have some facts or evidence to back you up. And make sure your intentions are in the right place- that you are not purposely trying to piss off your opposition for you own amusement. "
Blinkered and blinded.
You seem to have reverence for the office of the President, one that was sorely lacking for the right any time there is a Dem in office.
The same standard should be held for the loyal opposition. Facts or evidence of poster's denigration of Bush/Kerry are often few and far between.

"E. The right needs to back off on the personal attacks. Challenge the persons message, don’t attack the person. "
Agree, and same goes for left too. an addition - stop attacking the messenger.

"F. If both sides can do D and E, CE should become a habitable zone again."

Yeah, but it's against the political nature of the land and much of the posts/posters.

So long as you have idiots on the right like Scott and Ed who beleive everything the White House says and feel the need to attack anything the left says, it wont be habitable.
so long as you have idiots like Phil who post with the sole intention of A) Bashing Kerry or B) Pasting Islam with the big ol' terrorist brush, it wont be habitable.
So long as Tom feels that the mortal enemies of the free world are "the left" and the media, it won't be habitable.
So long as Chris, Raoul, Bowser, Lindy and Jack post crap about the nature of the insurgency, or the latest conspiracy theory about why we went in, or worse yet, another war for Oil tirade, it wont be habitable.
So long as Don fails to regain his sense of humour, it wont be habitable.
So long as just about everyone tolerates their "side", no matter how reprehensible the posting, it wont be habitable.