The entire secession movement is just to embarrass the President for historical purposes

[kelliekat44]

They can't touch him any other way so this is something that will be recorded to smear his record. How long will the haters keep throwing shit against the wall to see what will stick?

[Fumesucker]

1. They are trolls, when people stop feeding them they'll go away

Every post on DU about the secessionists gives them what they want, publicity for their nutty views. Few to none of them are serious, they are in it for the attention it draws.

[Turborama]

2. They are a tiny fragment of the population who flaunt their idiocy

They deserve to be mocked, pilloried and made fun of.

The history books will not be kind to them, even if they do end up inhabiting a tiny footnote.

Anyone who takes them seriously and worries about them is giving them what they want.

[MadrasT]

3. Meh. Let 'em go.

It's not embarrassing to anyone (except, perhaps, the wanna-be "secessionists&quot .

Who cares?

[tanyev]

4. That may be their hope, but the only people they're really embarrassing are themselves.

[FSogol]

5. Now it's a movement? Bullshit.

How things are framed is important. A few noisy partisan malcontents do not make a movement.

You are correct on the historical purpose though. They are trying to diminish Obama.