Reply #24: I think he was obviously a troll in the second thread I posted...

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Where he and one other were taking some obvious anti-progressive positions in their posts.

The first one he had only a subject line where he spoke out against Obama's stances on transparency, and therefore was hard to separate from those where we are legitimately concerned about Obama's stances on transparency (this issue, and other issues such as supporting state secrets privilege, torture memo coverups, etc.). Now with these brief (and rather meaningless posts), most of these I suspect are ignored by other posters, as they don't provide any substantive dialogue to the discussion, but echo some folks sentiments. If I were a freeper, that would be the good stealthy way in this thread to try and "inflate" people's sentiments against Obama with such comments. The other thread was an example of how not to be stealthy, by taking on the progressives directly on issues.

Obama is himself creating this atmosphere where we can't distinguish freepers from those of us legitimately concerned about his policies when he doesn't really deliver on promises of things like transparency to us. Were he more trying to shut down State Secrets privilege, open to having congress more informed about CIA operations, etc. then there would have been no wiggle room for a post like this for the freepers, as we wouldn't be making these posts then.