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[pnwmom]

[Runcible Spoon]

1. this post is new and interesting...oh wait....

It's an INTERNET DISCUSSION BOARD. We really have fuckall to do with widespread opinion. If we had any sway, Bush's second term never would have happened, nor Iraq, nor FISA, etc. etc. etc.

[Occam Bandage]

2. "and the MORE likely that he will be replaced by a Republican in 2012."

The outrage addicted among us would be much happier if that happened. Without another Bush to hate, they'll have very dull lives.

[Runcible Spoon]

3. oh for fuck's sake..I've never seen so much bullshit crammed into so few words.

It must be a gift..

[Occam Bandage]

5. Poor babe. Toddle along and compare Biden to Cheney. It'll make you feel better. nt

[Runcible Spoon]

6. I swear your strawmen spontaneously combust before you can even erect them.

jebus.

[Occam Bandage]

11. Strawman? Sorry, dear, but people have not only said such things,

they have recommended OPs declaring such things. It may embarrass you, but it's the truth.

[Runcible Spoon]

12. Though I seriously doubt that, how many have been written by me?

None, as such using some tired attack on me is a rhetorically stupid strawman. The amount of shit you sling, I'm sure this has been pointed out for you.

And by referring to me using diminutives, you're not achieving the desired effect, sorry. Takes more than some idiot on a website with way too much free time and a chip on his shoulder to make me feel belittled.

[Occam Bandage]

13. I didn't say you had.

I merely sarcastically suggested you do so. You seem to use the term "strawman" with only a loose idea of what it means.

[Runcible Spoon]

14. oh so now you're "sarcastic". How fucking convenient for you.

Actually, that is just a greater indication of your straw man construction. Yet you accuse me of lacking understanding. Keep going...

[firedupdem]

4. pnwmom...

the thing I can't understand is all the hate and he's not even in office. It's really amazing to me. He made some appointments of people I didn't really care for but I voted for Obama, so I have to believe that he has a reason for appointing these people. Even if I didn't care for them, they are still good democrats. I feel like I have to support Obama even more when I see the hate he's getting from his own side and he's not even in office yet.

[Runcible Spoon]

7. are you able to discern criticism from hate?

:shrug: Overusing and misusing that word dilutes it in its more deserved contexts...

[firedupdem]

8. clearly. n/t

[Runcible Spoon]

10. show me what constitutes "hatred" for Obama on DU.

I trust the mods to weed out anyone who posts anything remotely approaching "hatred".

[FrenchieCat]

9. Crying wolf all of the time is not going to generate positive results.

I would say, at the most, waiting till the man actually takes office
is a nothing but a reasonable request....
But I'm afraid one that will not be heeded,
and instead will be jeered and ridiculed.

Many of us have only posted on the Internet with a Republican foe in our White House,
and most have never posted on the Internet while having a Democratic President sitting in the office,
and probably don't truly know what to do after 8 years of being in opposition.

Some will freely choose to stay in opposition, because that is what they know.
I don't blame them....and understand the mindset. I just don't happen to agree.

As time goes by, those exhausted and depressed due to the negativity, will go elsewhere.
They will go to a place where the President and his actions are discussed rationally, without the presence of those who's ultimate goal is seeing him fail and not much more.