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In reply to the discussion: Dem lawmaker blasts ‘Professor Obama’ as arrogant, alienating [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,057 posts)is not even in the same ballpark with what happened here: Prosense responded to a paragraph from the article which said, in essence:
Many democrats wish someone else were running.
Obama still learn has time to learn from other respected dems.
I prefer him over anyone the Republicans have to offer
I am afraid the general voting public will not.
Her response "this statement is absurd . . .Sounds like someone with issues!"
The points made in the quoted paragraph are not in any way equivalent to a racial epithet - they are a mixture of opinions/concerns and purported facts.
A constructive response to that paragraph would be to dispute the purported facts (show that the first statement is factually inaccurate), or to disagree with the opinions. Explain why there isn't time - or why she don't want Obama to learn from those other dems, or why she believes the fear expressed in the last paragraph is not justifed.
Instead, Prosense responded with a character attack - the messenger has issues. (Arguably the assertion that that the statement is absurd is an attack on the message - but an attack more suited to a discussion board would be as I have outlined above - one liner dismissals aren't conducive to discussion.)
I opened this thread hoping that there might be some real discussion going on. I probably should have known better since Obama was part of the discussion. Instead of discussion I was greeted with the first dozen (probably more by the time I hit return) comments being pretty much a street brawl. It would be nice to evolve to a group that really could discuss political commentary on the merits.