The responses to this thread are beyond belief.

[kikiek]

She is being called a child abuser and terrible mother because she took her child to a parade. Absolutely disgusting posts.


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dropkickpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-17-08 10:24 AM
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My Obama supporter experience

Saturday March 15th, Pittsburgh St. Patrick's Day parade

Me and Dropkid got to downtown at about 10am, right before the parade was set to start. A LOT of Obama supporters showed up where we had planted ourselves after we got there. During the course of the parade, my 7 year old daughter was shoved, pushed, stepped on, hit in the head, yelled at, and knocked down. By Obama supporters. I got into 2 separate serious verbal confrontations (one which I thought might come to blows) when I asked them to "Watch what you're doing! There's a lot of kids here and they're getting trampled." My daughter has a huge bruise on the top of one foot where she was stomped and both her knees and elbows are scraped up and bruised. This is not even condidering the number of elbows I took to the head and other body parts and the papercut from a sign I got on the back of my neck.

I was called a fucking bitch. I was called worse. In front of, not only my child, but the hundreds of families on the street.

The supporters were unruly, constantly encroaching on the parade route to zealously wave their signs (at the Dalmation club of pittsburgh?!?? Do spotted dogs have a preference?) so that police and parade workers had to constantly tell them to step back so the marchers and vehicles could make it through. They shoved their way in front of young kids so they could line the route.

It was bad enough that we moved to a different spot, away from the spot where'd we'd

If Obama can inspire this sort of zealotry where common human decency and manners are forgotten, I don't want him. We've had 8 years of people who support their candidate with this level of religiousity, and I'm sick of it.

[bluemom]

1. Are Obama supporters all thugs?

Based on your experiences and the responses in the forum- I'd have to say Yes! They are really unbelievable.
There is no way this is the right direction to go in America.

[qnr]

2. It's pretty sad. n/t

[libbygurl]

3. Incredible. The poster just wanted to attend the St Patrick's Day parade with her child,...

...and got trampled on by rude O supporters - not unlike their behaviour here on DU, or DailyKos and any number of websites!

Next thing you know, the poster is called a child abuser by someone for taking her child to the parade!

Definitely - sent alert to mods about this horrible comment. Hope it gets deleted quickly.

[kikiek]

4. More than half the posts would be gone. It was a horrible pile on. It is a form of suppression

of comments or opinions they don't like. They jump on and ridicule people beyond what you would get if you posted on FR.

[libbygurl]

6. I didn't even bother to read beyond that first awful comment!

You think things couldn't get any worse or insane here on DU with these peeps - and then, they do!

Whither human decency and compassion? These peeps are nothing more than gangsters, unruly mobs, who will mow down anyone in their way, who doesn't worship at the altar of their great leader.

[kikiek]

7. where does it come from? It seems to be carrying over to Congresssional races also.

[NastyRiffraff]

5. That thread is disgusting.

I just responded, chewing the offenders out.

[Der Blaue Engel]

8. That was truly disgusting

DU has been completely destroyed by a gang (as one of them self-identified!) of trolls, pyschotic zealots, and just plain vile human beings. Do you think the people exhibiting this kind of behavior are going to suddenly become civil again after the primaries like many suggest? I'm beginning to truly doubt it.

And can you imagine what will happen if Hillary manages to get the nomination? There will be screaming, shit-throwing hysteria like this place has never seen. I have no doubt that some "new rule" will suddenly be implemented to allow everyone to accuse her of stealing the primaries or blackmailing superdelegates into voting for her, and this shit will just go on and on and on. I'm not sure there's any point to staying here much longer. I guess I'll wait and see how much worse things get after the nomination. Because I am certain the ugliness will not stop no matter who the nominee is.

I used to love DU. :(

[jackson_dem]

9. What a cult of thugs!

:puke:

[judaspriestess]

10. all I can say is KARMA

it will go back to them. What you put out is what you will get back.

these people have sold their souls.