Reply #105: I don't know about that. I just know that when I go to the Greatest page

[NJmaverick]

it's not filled with Obama bashing threads. Instead it's now balanced and more reflective of what I would expect to see at DU. I enounter and debate freepers and tea baggers on a regular basis. DU has always been my source for good information that dispell the never ending stream of right wing lies and myths. This board also acts as a Democratic think tank which provides many good talking points and ways of looking at things. So DU was a valuable resource, in my opinion. Sadly that great character was fading away. I would see polls that showed the over whelming majority of DU support Obama, yet that wasn't reflected by the volume and nature of the posts. It seemed like a very active and vocal minority were working over time to hijack DU. They were flooding the boards with one Obama bashing and Democrat bashing thread after another. We are not talking thoughtful or reasoned criticism. Rather we are talking hyperbole and knee jerk reactions (for example declaring Obama's presidency a bust after a week, month or even 100 days). There wasn't any effort at thoughtful discussion or debate. Rather it had all the earmarks of a campaign with an anti-Obama agenda.