Reply #29: Welcome to DU!

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I see you are a bit of a n00b having joined in 2009. Before the Democratic primary for the Presidency heated up, Pelosi was pretty much public enemy number 1 at DU. There was a brief honeymoon after she became speaker, but for most of 2007, according to DU, Pelosi wasn't doing anything right. She was almost as hated as, as, that Harry Reid fellow, a guy who also enjoyed a brief honeymoon after he replaced the spineless Daschle, but was quickly found to be very much wanting.

It was so bad that I took to displaying a Pelosi icon where I now sport the NY Jets, and I wrote this post to complain about all the Pelosi/Democrats bashing on DU. http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/51

So I find the suggestion that DU might not treat Pelosi like a pinyata to be quite laughable.

Of course, there are many new people here since those bad old days, and many oldsters are no longer with us, for one reason or another, but there is still much contempt of Democratic leaders. We focus more on Obama now, perhaps because the Presidency seems a little bit more important than a Speaker of the House, or a House minority leader.