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In reply to the discussion: Is DU a Liberal Message Board? [View all]joshcryer
(62,269 posts)And I think that's why a lot of people voted "used to be." There is a lot of crap our President does that we don't like, and we fight about it. The thing that bugs me the most is that the Obama defenders actually do agree that certain policies are crappy, but they still support Obama even when they disagree. So others claim that those policy positions are positions Obama defenders agree with. A lack of criticism for something does not mean an endorsement for it!
It just means people prefer to keep a shut lip than denigrate the President.
In fact, some of the biggest flamewars here are when Obama defenders cite certain things about the President's policies positively, when those policies are on the precipice of being a disaster. Syria comes to mind. When it was pointed out that Kerry was fighting hard for diplomacy and some Obama defenders correctly predicted that was the more logical route, they were put in the same camp as the extremely small minority that wanted to bomb Syria (we're talking 2 users I can name and maybe a dozen total, on a site with hundreds of thousands of posters).