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In reply to the discussion: I haven't seen any actual Obamabots here. [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)I don't go to rightwing sites, but I'm pretty sure their criticisms of Obama would be very different from criticisms of Obama from the left.
I haven't seen many people on the left buy into the Benghazi faux scandal, to use the example you used.
Mostly, on the left, we're concerned with corporate control of our government, with favoring the 1% over the rest of us, with the lack of environmental priorities, with militarism, lack of needed regulation of corporations, corporate money in our elections, as well as the various social issues that people on the right have no tolerance for.
If we criticize the ACA, it isn't because it's some socialist program, it's because it's not.
So I think your statement that you can go on the RW sites and see all the same shit is way off base. You equate it as the same shit, but it is actually the opposite.
I'm ok with more centrist Dems disagreeing with the left on policy. I'm not ok with Dems who try to implicate Obama's critics on the left as being stealth Republicans, or being called rat-fuckers, or being compared to RW'ers in any way. The truth is the opposite, yet I see this fallacy all the time on D.U.