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In reply to the discussion: I am so angry right now I want to cry. [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)41. They are unthinking
The media is working hard on Obama right now. Saying he's unpopular, doing whatever they can to make it so, knowing there are many unthinking people out there.
The type of person who parrots the media's latest as if they are in the know somehow. Not realizing they are just parroting what they were told. They think they watched the news and it means they are informed because they can say back what the news told them.
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I experienced similar at the dog park from old gentleman with whom I'd previously had many good
hlthe2b
Aug 2014
#1
Living in Texas this, unfortunately, all too common for me. People assume I am a tea nut like
Dustlawyer
Aug 2014
#21
That's why every week one of our protest signs always said 'Impeach Cheney First!'
freshwest
Aug 2014
#81
That's because this President represents the possibility of everything they have been told to fear..
Volaris
Aug 2014
#24
Having a lot of the moments in the last three years. Its pretty much gutted my catering buisness....
marble falls
Aug 2014
#30
Racism is a sickness. Many react like kids to the medicine of exposure, and see their cure as worse
ancianita
Aug 2014
#31
I want off ths planet too... my sympathies Drunken Irishman, time for some new drinking buddies.
riseabove
Aug 2014
#52
I don't know DI, yet say a bad thing about GWB, (who deserved animosity) and they freak!
joanbarnes
Aug 2014
#60
It's not just Obama; its black men, females, immigrants, the poor, the unemployed...
KauaiK
Aug 2014
#67
I noticed that a person will back off if you give em a one to one conversation, often they STFU….
MrMickeysMom
Aug 2014
#73