sparkling husband dude argues; Skins isn't sure

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=437x5113

Oh my.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-17-11 10:57 AM
Original message
 
I rarely argue my case when a thread of mine gets locked, but this one crosses the line

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Every couple of days, some former to-the-core Obama supporter cites that their limit has been reached

And that's just among the few thousand active posters on DU. I hear this real life, too.

The president's posture on the OWS thing has gotten to some. For others it was health care. Or social security. Or medicare. Or Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Or the bank bailouts. Or . . . . or . . . .

No matter. The point is, there are lots of issues in the ongoing saga of Obama's presidency where people feel their own personal disappointment tolerance has been exceeded. I am certain this is always true of any president's supporters over time and throughout history. I just get the feeling that Obama, more than any president in my lifetime except, perhaps, JFK, won such a wide spread high level of support and evoked so much hope that the fall off of support is even more pronounced and more obvious.

Anyway . . . . . just an observation.

The bolded paragraph is the nut of the post, not the offhanded reference to DU members. To say this was "discussing members is **really** a stretch.

Here's the hair-triggered locking message:

struggle4progress DU Moderator

36. Locking

Rather than discussing issues, this discusses DUers.

This appears to be more about lazy moderating (lots of alerts, so it must be wrong), or censorship (interpreted as being anti-Obama).

Would that same post, but minus the throwaway line "And that's just among the few thousand active posters on DU." have also been locked?

Hint: The nut of THIS post is the last line/question.

Skinner ADMIN  (1000+ posts)        Tue Nov-22-11 10:27 AM
Response to Original message
 
1. Sometimes the line between what is okay and what is not is kinda fuzzy.

This seems pretty borderline to me. I'm not sure it needed to be shut down.

Hmmmm.  One wonders what chemicals the sparkling husband dude's been ingesting, to say this:

.....I just get the feeling that Obama, more than any president in my lifetime except, perhaps, JFK, won such a wide spread high level of support and evoked so much hope.....