WTF Happened to DU While I Was Gone

[NightOwwl]

"Nobody is looking out for you. Nobody is thinking about you. And so people end up- they don't vote on economic issues because they don't expect anybody's going to help them. So people end up, you know, voting on issues like guns, and are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage. And they take refuge in their faith and their community and their families and things they can count on. But they don't believe they can count on Washington."

Haven't we been criticizing Bush for the past seven years for using wedge issues to distract people from the real problems we are facing? And what is so awful about saying people take refuge in their faith and families? I just don't get how any DUer can be critical of these comments.

Was I just dreaming?

[DerekJ]

1. *sigh*

They've gone against everything they've believed in to support Hillary.

[ClassWarrior]

2. Troll invasion. Happens every election cycle.

NGU.

[sniffa]

8. But, they're craftier this time

Some of them started their accounts in 2001 and such, planning for 2008.

[ClassWarrior]

11. Ahhh, so you're saying it's more of an...

...infiltration than an invasion? Or even an infestation?

:rofl:

NGU.

[caledesi]

12. I agree! NT

[Faygo Kid]

3. It's an infestation here today.

The HillaryClintonForum.net types are everywhere on DU today.

Of course Obama was right in the point he was making. This too shall pass. The Hillary backers are overreaching, as they always do. Next they will be telling us everything is great, and Barack is the sole problem facing this country.

Won't wash.

[Armstead]

4. You were dreaming -- Disregard everything on DU for the past seven years

[ClassWarrior]

6. ~shhhhh!!!~ (the OP doesn't have the implant yet...)

:rofl:

NGU.

[NightOwwl]

13. It's like I took a wrong turn somewhere...

and ended up in Freeperville.

[Eurobabe]

15. the only thing to do today is whack-a-troll n/t

[crankychatter]

5. My ignore list keeps me smiling

I'm new and saw it from the moment I got in... I think it was worse then... people have been reporting the nastier racist stuff.

I think my ignore list will evaporate when we have our nominee...

If I supported Clinton, I would be ashamed to be seen siding with some of our more obvious trolls.

I found a pro-obama, vaguely anti-semitic post and got on it like a "duck on a june bug."

I wouldn't tolerate shit like that from anyone, on either side of the Democratic Primary Race.

[shadowknows69]

7. Abandon hope ye who enter here

[elocs]

9. Comprehension is evidently difficult, but the ability to spin is not.

Obama said:

And they take refuge in their faith and their community and their families and things they can count on.

There is nothing in that statement which indicates that there is anything awful about people taking refuge in their faith or families. The implication is that they do so because they feel helpless as a result:

But they don't believe they can count on Washington.

So people can count on their faith and families, but they cannot count on Washington or the government to help them. That's what happens when people are faced with the cold, stark reality of the Republican motto: "You are on your own". Ask the people of New Orleans, they know about that. While Rome burns, or New Orleans drowns, Bush strums a guitar and has a good old time. You become bitter as you watch yourself, your family, your home and dreams sink when there are untold billion$ for bombs and bullets, but very little to help you.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Dean got "Deaned" on this exact issue.

Deja poo.

[blogslut]

14. Definition of a Wedge Issue

from teh Wikipedia:

A wedge issue is a social or political issue, often of a divisive or otherwise controversial nature, which splits apart or creates a "wedge" in the support base of one political group. Wedge issues can be advertised, publicly aired, and otherwise emphasized by an opposing political group, in an attempt to weaken the unity of the divided group, or to entice voters in the divided group to give their support to the opposing group. The use of wedge issues gives rise to wedge politics.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue

[VolcanoJen]

16. Go back to sleep.

:-)

Really, it's amazing, isn't it? DU has morphed even more than the New Clintons. It's fuckin' frustrating.

Read this... it helped. Like tonic, and gin. :-)

http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=1037

[AtomicKitten]

19. "Clinton to Rural Pennsylvanians: “You Can Be Victims, Too!"

Perfect!

:hi:

[Forkboy]

17. The Baby Boycott ended.

[BlooInBloo]

18. It's how Americans become stupider and stupider - they get OUTRAGED when confronted...

... with the simple truth. And they will punish anyone with the temerity to tell them the truth.

[Liberal Veteran]

21. The rage of Caliban at seeing his own face in the glass.

[Liberal Veteran]

20. I'm thinking that the Hillary supporters made the mistake of watching her on Fox News....

....and most people know that if you watch that drivel for too long, you get replaced with a dumbed-down pod person.

[2rth2pwr]

22. That's not the quote that caused the controversy, try again.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Columbiagate cut too close to the quick and an immediate deflection had to occur! n/t