All you folks so unhappy with President Obama, let me ask you a question...

[joshcryer]

98. That hurts me though, this is DU, we aren't suposed to be "kool-aid" drinkers.

And yet people who clearly appear duped by some sort of campaign rhetoric dare criticize current supporters because we support him despite his misgivings. I mean, consistency should be respected, no? I bashed the fuck out of Obama during the primaries. I spent hundreds of hours on it. Just search my name and "mandates" or "delegates" or "krugman" and "primaries." It went deep. I am shocked, reading back, that I didn't get banned back then.

I got in deep trouble for rendering the entire 2008 elections as a historical thing, either a black man and a woman. That pissed off a lot of people. But that's basically what it was. For me it was a "partisan" vs a "post-partisan." The partisan vs the moderate. I wanted a partisan for a change (but it was minor, imo, I had no issue voting for Obama when push came to shove, I was not and never will be a PUMA).

I admit that a lot of people think Obama was something he wasn't, but I cannot completely fault Obama for that. He ran a very historical campaign. It was the first "social networking" campaign that existed (Dean had a shot at that but social networks weren't quite as developed back then). Voters are still consumers, in the end, they consume political ads, they consume political media (just look at how the narrative on DU is driven by paid pundits!), and Obama monopolized on that.

It doesn't then render his ideas groundbreaking though. You don't buy a box of cereal and ignore the nutrition information, if you don't want to be unhealthy.

A lot of people do.

But I expect better of DUers.