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In reply to the discussion: How Can Obama Deliver This Speech on Racial Profiling While Considering Ray Kelly for DHS? - FDL [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)And the rest isn't much better.
With regard to DADT, I used that phrase for those OPs in which the author was sure that Obama was never, ever, ever, going to end DADT. That prediction was made over, and over and over and over. And it was nonsense. Just repeated, and now proven wrong, attacks against the President.
I also use that phrase for some OPs in which the author just goes way over the top in their attack. I could be using it every day recently with all of the Obama is a Nazi type threads we have lately.
I also use it, as I did today, in a thread in which the OP references something good Obama did, but only to argue that what Obama said is not actually not so good, or that he did not mean it, or that something evil he did negates it. Those are pretty common and serve little purpose but to allow the perpetually disgruntled to change the topic from whatever it was the President said, to some other topic of outrage. Its a pretty obvious tactic.
As for "activists", I doubt I see many real activists posting here. Maybe some keyboard warriors.
As for what benefit Obama "gets"when I post that phrase ... you'd have to be pretty dumb to think he gets anything at all, that ... or from anything else anyone posts here. Same is true for those on the endless attack. DU outrage doesn't seem to hurt Obama much from what I can tell.
I find all of the hair on fire heads amusing and a fun diversion. I'd prefer to see more posts that are focused discussions and not smear attempts, but there are still enough of those to keep DU relevant.
And as for my political objectives ... this isn't the place I'd go to fulfill those. DU can be a good place for information, has been a good place to learn about Democratic candidates that I might not have heard of in other states, and its become a great place to find out the latest outrage, but its not the place where political objectives are fulfilled. Mine, or anyone else's I suspect.