Reply #543: Please stop that.

[Jakes Progress]

There are a number of Obama supporters. And there are a number of Obama sychophants. It is easy to tell the difference. The sychophant never - never ever - finds any thing that the administration does is wrong or even less than the perfect thing to do. They approve of anything done if Obama does it. They would not approve of it if a republican did it and would question it's wisdom if some other Democrat did it. Plus they brook no discussion that might question an administrative action.

I have no problem with that. I have my knee-jerk issues - racism, sexism, glbt attacks. Their knee jerk issue is not an issue, it is the president.

If you can disagree with the president on some issues, then you aren't a sychophant. But there is no perfect person and to never find fault is a conscious decision to ignore reality.

Personally, I believe some of the most devout defenders are not who they say they are. If I wanted to foment discord among republicans on a site, I wouldn't be able to do that by attacking mccain or palin. But I could alienate and piss off whole groups of serious people (yeah like republicans are serious about anything other than cutting taxes) by attacking people on the site as not being good enough or pure enough. I would tell them that palin and gingrich hate them and want them to go away if they don't like it. I don't have time to do that kind of stuff, but I think it would be effective.