2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)26 years to look at. We had to look at Barack Obama like sane adults. I had input from my cousin who knew him from Illinois and her insights into his potential and his methods were as always very accurate and helpful to me in selecting Obama in 08, but if I had gone by his supporters on DU or in other internet places I'd never have voted for him.
This is not something I'd bring up save for the fact of the current times.
I'm not going to play 'forget the past' to serve people who were unfriendly in 08. This cycle, same as the last.
I say I was right to ignore nasty comments made 'for Obama' and to instead look at Obama himself. Others are of course free to be patsies and allow themselves to be played by random pixels on the internet.