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101. The folks at Common Dreams make me sad. Do and say anything for a few mouse clicks
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  -"President Obama has a couple of months to turn his failing administration around" Better Believe It  Sep-02-09 12:21 PM   #0 
  - how long will DU let this fail parade go on?  Teaser   Sep-02-09 12:30 PM   #1 
  - Quit living in denial. nt  earth mom   Sep-02-09 02:58 PM   #37 
  - I've stopped contributing  alcibiades_mystery   Sep-02-09 03:06 PM   #40 
  - PUMAS  Splinter Cell    Sep-02-09 08:20 PM   #55 
  - What's a PUMA?  JohnnyLib2   Sep-03-09 04:23 AM   #79 
  - "Party Unity My Ass"  AspenRose   Sep-03-09 11:38 AM   #83 
  - This OP seems more "Nader" than PUMA - he really did not like Hillary in the primaries  karynnj   Sep-08-09 04:22 PM   #109 
  - I wish the Dems would start acting like they have won!  joeycola   Sep-08-09 11:32 AM   #103 
  - When the President starts leading rather than being so accomodating!  DailyGrind51   Sep-08-09 06:11 PM   #110 
  - Hand wringer  bluestateguy   Sep-02-09 12:30 PM   #2 
  - LOL! Epic fail  scheming daemons   Sep-02-09 12:31 PM   #3 
  - Appears to be a PUB HIT PIECE...all neg...nothing Poz...a denigrating attack to make the Pres  opihimoimoi   Sep-02-09 12:31 PM   #4 
  - Did you really seriously call Obama "chosen Leader"?  LooseWilly   Sep-03-09 04:17 AM   #78 
     - Yeah, you right...shoulda used elected..but thought this was better  opihimoimoi   Sep-03-09 06:48 PM   #91 
  - Obama Almighty  demwing   Sep-02-09 12:32 PM   #5 
  - my impression of the article from the excerpt ....  shireen   Sep-02-09 12:35 PM   #6 
  - I think he is right about the market  Mojorabbit   Sep-06-09 09:59 PM   #98 
  - Ogawd.  lamp_shade   Sep-02-09 12:36 PM   #7 
  - One hour after the Inaugural Ceremony...  JaneQPublic   Sep-02-09 12:38 PM   #8 
  - I did not realize that we were now under one year term limts  ksoze   Sep-02-09 12:41 PM   #9 
  - take your sorry act over to free republic please.  dionysus   Sep-02-09 12:42 PM   #10 
  - "You cannot add this user to your buddy list because this user is already in your list"  AspenRose   Sep-03-09 11:44 AM   #84 
  - .  JTFrog   Sep-02-09 12:44 PM   #11 
  - Working overtime, hey?  FrenchieCat   Sep-02-09 12:46 PM   #12 
  - I'm really really tired of all the "Obama is failing" bullshit.  MUAD_DIB   Sep-02-09 01:09 PM   #13 
  - Read the article. There's nothing in it that isn't completely true.  salguine   Sep-08-09 12:18 PM   #105 
  - Failing?  liberal N proud   Sep-02-09 01:12 PM   #14 
  - Day after weary day  Undercurrent   Sep-02-09 01:16 PM   #15 
  - You guys should actually read the damn article -- It makes good points  Armstead   Sep-02-09 01:17 PM   #16 
  - First damn point: "President Obama has a couple of months to turn his failing administration around"  ProSense   Sep-02-09 01:28 PM   #20 
  - I would amend that to stay START turning it around...It's not do or die yet  Armstead   Sep-02-09 01:39 PM   #25 
     - "And it DOES matter what happens with the rest of this year " This article is garbage.  ProSense   Sep-02-09 03:00 PM   #38 
  - I don't read any fucking article that starts out with that line. It's what the RWers say.  DevonRex   Sep-02-09 01:30 PM   #21 
  - If you don't want to read it fine -- But if not, don't criticize what you don't read  Armstead   Sep-02-09 01:35 PM   #23 
     - I did critize what I read. The title says it all. Good lord. nt  DevonRex   Sep-02-09 01:46 PM   #28 
     - The author should have used a better title if he wants us to read it  Hippo_Tron   Sep-03-09 01:56 PM   #90 
  - I stopped reading after the author used a prediction of the stock market as a piece of evidence  ChimpersMcSmirkers   Sep-02-09 11:18 PM   #68 
  - No, it is  billh58   Sep-03-09 01:02 PM   #87 
  - you know the poster by the headline, don't you?  curlyred   Sep-02-09 01:18 PM   #17 
  - The notion that the only economic indicator that has turned around is the stock market is laughable.  Zynx   Sep-02-09 01:25 PM   #18 
  - Do I think some posters here are failtrolls with an anti-Democratic agenda?  Ikonoklast   Sep-02-09 01:26 PM   #19 
  - Hmm. Don't our political opponents say that Obama has failed? nt  DevonRex   Sep-02-09 01:31 PM   #22 
  - This kind of dramatic flambait titled article makes some people Positively WET!!!  NYC_SKP   Sep-02-09 01:35 PM   #24 
  - Same shit, different day from this poster n/t  Spazito   Sep-02-09 01:39 PM   #26 
  - I rather like his recommendation about the messed up health insurance proposals  joeycola   Sep-02-09 01:41 PM   #27 
  - Unless Obama appoints Dennis Kucinich as co-President we're doomed!  Political Tiger   Sep-02-09 02:07 PM   #29 
  - Anybody else see a pattern with this poster? Or is it just me?  DevonRex   Sep-02-09 02:10 PM   #30 
  - The OP's pattern is get issues out that usually get voted down on DU as  joeycola   Sep-02-09 02:12 PM   #31 
     - Bullshit!!!  Baltoman991   Sep-02-09 02:33 PM   #33 
     - Ah, suspected lunch guest. n/t  ProSense   Sep-02-09 03:01 PM   #39 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-02-09 04:10 PM   #47 
     - The pattern is to bemoan having lost the primary  alcibiades_mystery   Sep-02-09 03:08 PM   #42 
  - I guess the author did not look at Reagan's presidency  Jennicut   Sep-02-09 02:23 PM   #32 
  - AARRGGHHH! Did any of you actually read the article????  bain_sidhe   Sep-02-09 02:38 PM   #34 
  - That's quite an alternative - the prez would be putting principles on the line...  polichick   Sep-03-09 11:53 AM   #85 
  - "commondreams?" Nuff said, they don't write positive things about Democrats  emulatorloo   Sep-02-09 02:52 PM   #35 
  - I don't recall that their purpose is specifically to write positive things about Democrats.  salguine   Sep-08-09 12:19 PM   #106 
  - Kick and Unrec  Hutzpa   Sep-02-09 02:57 PM   #36 
  - He will actually have about 8 years...  Better BeLIEve Bull   Sep-02-09 03:08 PM   #41 
  - Best User Name of 2009!!  Number23   Sep-03-09 04:40 AM   #80 
  - I recognize the author's name, therefore will not bother with the article  MH1   Sep-02-09 03:10 PM   #43 
  - This "author"  billh58   Sep-02-09 03:46 PM   #45 
     - Seconded.  Kaleko   Sep-02-09 09:16 PM   #59 
     - Thanks!  billh58   Sep-02-09 10:09 PM   #61 
     - Fannnnn-tastic!  Number23   Sep-03-09 04:42 AM   #81 
  - ....  and-justice-for-all   Sep-02-09 03:16 PM   #44 
  - Wrong...  butterfly77   Sep-02-09 03:50 PM   #46 
  - I think he's already lost millions of progressives.  leftofthedial   Sep-02-09 04:22 PM   #48 
  - Depends on which poll....the one from CNN I posted last night said it was independents  Jennicut   Sep-02-09 04:25 PM   #49 
     - most real progressives are becoming independents these days.  leftofthedial   Sep-02-09 04:33 PM   #50 
        - That is the first time I ever heard indies thought of as mostly progessives  Jennicut   Sep-02-09 05:24 PM   #53 
        - You are right, it was repubs turned independents....  Spazito   Sep-02-09 09:18 PM   #60 
        - not what I said.  leftofthedial   Sep-02-09 11:33 PM   #70 
           - Then why are you  billh58   Sep-02-09 11:52 PM   #75 
              - It is my fervent hope that the Democratic Party will rise from the dead.  leftofthedial   Sep-04-09 12:58 PM   #94 
        - Could you please  billh58   Sep-02-09 11:30 PM   #69 
           - left of, say, Nixon.  leftofthedial   Sep-02-09 11:34 PM   #71 
              - That could describe  billh58   Sep-02-09 11:50 PM   #74 
                 - Not different,  leftofthedial   Sep-04-09 12:59 PM   #95 
  - A more ludicrious title I have never seen  treestar   Sep-02-09 05:07 PM   #51 
  - So say fuckheads.  Cha   Sep-02-09 05:08 PM   #52 
  - Dude - there is no spoon... nt.  BlueIdaho   Sep-02-09 05:31 PM   #54 
  - During the primaries  hollowdweller   Sep-02-09 08:49 PM   #56 
  - Does anyone object to these two proposals and if so why?  Better Believe It   Sep-02-09 08:54 PM   #57 
  - Second suggestion is not possible  andym   Sep-03-09 01:20 AM   #76 
  - If that's the case President Obama should propose legislation to expand Medicare.  Better Believe It   Sep-03-09 10:48 AM   #82 
  - I object to both on grounds  TheKentuckian   Sep-08-09 11:57 AM   #104 
  - Do you think the president is failing?  Generic Brad   Sep-02-09 09:01 PM   #58 
  - i can't believe the barrage of invective and attacks directed at the OP  inna   Sep-02-09 10:51 PM   #62 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-02-09 10:53 PM   #64 
  - racist  Amos Moses   Sep-02-09 11:09 PM   #67 
  - thanks for illustrating my point.  inna   Sep-02-09 11:35 PM   #72 
  - I for one  Baltoman991   Sep-02-09 11:04 PM   #65 
  - What's actually rather sad is the OP's relentless stream of  JeffR   Sep-02-09 11:37 PM   #73 
  - LOT of people in denial.  Mari333   Sep-03-09 12:55 PM   #86 
  - Get used to it. Increasingly, anyone whose lips aren't pressed to  salguine   Sep-08-09 12:22 PM   #107 
  - What would you have done different?  akbacchus_BC   Sep-02-09 10:52 PM   #63 
  - K&R  Amos Moses   Sep-02-09 11:08 PM   #66 
  - WTH has happened to Common Dreams?  johnaries   Sep-03-09 03:53 AM   #77 
  - Common Dreams and CounterPunch have never liked Democrats  Hippo_Tron   Sep-03-09 01:55 PM   #89 
     - Is that why they publish articles by Senators Feingold, Sanders and other progressive leaders?  Better Believe It   Sep-03-09 08:22 PM   #92 
        - You should reply to me.  johnaries   Sep-04-09 01:46 AM   #93 
           - "Public Option is failing, - it's YOUR Fault!" That's called passing the buck.  Better Believe It   Sep-06-09 06:07 PM   #96 
              - Or how about this  Baltoman991   Sep-06-09 10:06 PM   #99 
  - I don't read articles with that kind of bias in the headline  Hippo_Tron   Sep-03-09 01:54 PM   #88 
  - How brave of you. Intellectual curiosity is for commies and socialists. If you work hard enough,  salguine   Sep-08-09 12:25 PM   #108 
  - why is this piece of shit kicked back up?  dionysus   Sep-06-09 08:33 PM   #97 
  - kick  Amos Moses   Sep-06-09 10:09 PM   #100 
  - no surprise you'd kick this piece of crap up.  dionysus   Sep-08-09 11:20 AM   #102 
  - The folks at Common Dreams make me sad. Do and say anything for a few mouse clicks  rvablue   Sep-08-09 11:18 AM   #101 
 

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