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Stuff That (Increasingly Desperately Disillusioned) Obama Supporters Say [View all]
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
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It's crazy land. Democrats overwhelmingly do something. Republicans get credit.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#144
I'm sure, even, if the right wing SCOTUS shot it down, Obama would've been blamed.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#149
No, it didn't. DADT went into a less strict form, but it was waiting on the SCOTUS.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#287
The LCR didn't "make them look bad." It was political gamemanship, and it *worked*.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#298
2 years isn't a long time to overturn a law like that. You just THINK it is.
phleshdef
Jan 2012
#322
Thank you. I truly think FDL thinks its members are the stupidest people on the Internets.
msanthrope
Jan 2012
#255
And yet all I heard from 99% of all Republicans was that ending DADT was a mistke
Sheepshank
Jan 2012
#326
Barack Obama pursued and successfully overturned the ban on gays in the military. PERIOD.
phleshdef
Jan 2012
#206
Who does? Who is they? Progressives? Liberals? The video makers? "professional leftists"?
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#11
Lol, I was just thinking the same thing. Chavez is able to get his government to
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#129
Not really, there has always been a strong, but small opposition to Chavez from the left.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#138
Then there's the fact that most "right wingers" in Venezuela are far left of our Democrats...
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#156
Yep. The same "progressives" posting a dozen times in this thread denying every
Number23
Jan 2012
#100
So you're claiming that absolutely no articles that express any criticism of President Obama's
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#23
The video isn't mocking Obama, it's mocking a small but very vocal segment of his fanbase.
LeftyMom
Jan 2012
#28
So now we're making fun of Obama supporters? I thought us Liberals were above that.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#31
I doubt any Trekkie would poke fun at a Klingon wedding. Starting to see my point?
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#42
But you didn't poke fun at them. You just mentioned them without poking fun.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#47
I'm offended that someone would post a video that makes Lefty's look dumb and stupid.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#51
+ a million. I just saw one particularly special Obama "detractor" call for Stephen Colbert
Number23
Jan 2012
#101
Joking is not the word for what Stephen Colbert is doing. He's making satire of the
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2012
#193
This OP is not an article about issues. This is a video about how "stupid" Obama supporters are.
MADem
Jan 2012
#128
If you are perceived by most as someone trying to depress the vote for Barack Obama
Bolo Boffin
Jan 2012
#145
Indeed. That is in the TOS, and he also said something about folks who get themselves a
MADem
Jan 2012
#126
The OP seems to only REC articles that are negative of Obama. Not even a REC for the pipeline. SMH
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#32
You don't do a very good job monitoring posts. You "missed" this one:
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#34
My point was that ALL of the OP's recs were for negative articles about Obama. That was my point.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#83
Some people don't like to rec their own posts. They think it's stupid and self-aggrandizing.
Starry Messenger
Jan 2012
#87
What are you talking about?! I DID click the link, that's not the point. Whoosh over your head.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#91
And THAT kind of smug condescending elitism. Keep it coming. You are becoming a parody of yourself.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#102
There you go again, making believe you know what would make people "proud as punch".
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#118
I posted the article on Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Why didn't you?
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#189
LOL. Yeah, "policing the forums". By checking someones PUBLIC PROFILE? Get a HUGE GRIP!
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#75
Using what you find in their profile as a means to intimidate is very orwellian.
unapatriciated
Jan 2012
#254
she is fighting ron paul on this board by being the only person posting about him
SwampG8r
Jan 2012
#174
Maybe because you're new you are not familiar with this OP who is highly respected
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#143
Why, thank you! I will return the favor, Sir Scurrilous and deem thee extra SPECIAL highly respected
Number23
Jan 2012
#270
This is a Democratic board. Probably 99.9% of the posters here are Democrats.
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#301
Reading is not the same as interacting, getting to know people, sometimes even meeting
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#304
Well, since most of us rarely comment on the responses to a particular post,
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#315
Why should you assume that any DUers would leave during the election season?
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#320
And please note, not so long ago something this idiotic would have gotten over 200 recs
Number23
Jan 2012
#319
Your false charge that I'm a "right wing paid troll" is a clear violation of DU rules.
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#191
So you have no problem with violating DU rules. Do you have an exemption from those rules?
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#215
So you are also falsely charging that I'm "a right wing, paid troll'?
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#238
there is no try. there is only accomplish, as evidenced by your post coming in at #164
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2012
#234
When satire strikes a personal chord, it is wise not to show that fact....
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2012
#199
You are the best! Good luck with bringing peace to some of these haters. Obama is still my choice
mfcorey1
Jan 2012
#213
BBI - I saw this over at CD a couple days ago. I figured if I'd post it here
truth2power
Jan 2012
#192
you win. your daily anti-dem campaigning has finally convinved me not to vote for obama...
dionysus
Jan 2012
#222
apparently some people are "increasingly desperate" to face another 4 years of him in office.
dionysus
Jan 2012
#252
I think they're hanging out with the people who KNEW Obama wasn't going to try to end DADT. nt
msanthrope
Jan 2012
#258
And they were hanging out with the folks that KNEW the president was going to kill Social Security
Number23
Jan 2012
#265
Your posts are always very professional, shame you don't profit from them.
great white snark
Jan 2012
#272
Funny, I didn't see "Increasingly Desperately Dissillusioned" anywhere in that vid
Capn Sunshine
Jan 2012
#278
Are you assigned the task of posting on DU as a staffer for a Democratic Party campaign committee?
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#307
Thanks for the response. And I also am not paid by anyone to post on DU.
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#323
These two are obviously "professional leftists" and dirty hippies. K&R
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2012
#309