Reply #7: There is a big effort here to demonize Obama. The endgame appears to be demoralizing Dem Voters

[emulatorloo]

I believe there are a fair number of Republican Operatives posing as leftists and posting deceptive half-truths or outright lies.

Republicans have a history of this kind of Pot Stirring. The purpose is to divide Democrats and lower voter turn out. That's how Republicans win, when Dems sit home.

They are pushing the meme that "the two parties are just the same" expecting us to believe that when we have ACTIVE EXAMPLES OF HOW REPUBLICANS RULE in states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana.

They post articles and cherry pick them in order to present Obama's proposals in the worst possible light. By basically only presenting part of Obama's proposal, not the whole thing.

When you call them out on this cherry picking, they try to change the subject or pull out their "Crystal Ball" and make a dire prediction about "I just know what Obama is going to do"

They push the meme that "Obama wants to destroy Medicare" when there is tons of evidence to the contrary.

When you say "You may not like Obama, but we have to get back the House and Senate" they answer that "it doesn't matter"

Now I am not saying that all critiques of Obama's policies are coming from Republican operatives. We all wish certain things were being done differently.

But critiques are one thing - deceptive posts, appeals to our lizard brains etc are another thing entirely.