Obama campaign REFUSES to disclose plans on Social Security, says discussion belongs with senators

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191. Well, that was ugly beyond words.

If you don't read my posts, you have no business making suppositions and claims like you just made in your subject line. If you DO read my posts, then you know that I have stated repeatedly that Obama is the better of the two options we are given. In fact, I, along with others here, have outlined repeatedly how this lesser of two evils game helps the one percent push us to the right, over and over again. How DARE you try to misrepresent my position, and how DARE you try to shift this discussion of policy and what we have a right to demand from our elected representatives into an attempt to smear me for positions I have never held.

It is the cheapest, lowest form of political smear and diversion, and I am sick to death of seeing it on DU.

We are in serious trouble in this country. We have allowed corporate interests to buy into both of our parties, so that the choices we are offered now reflect a disturbingly narrow range of policies and goals, that often do not reflect the voters' wishes or interests at all or are even outright destructive to those interests. And on top of that we are seeing a disturbing, pervasive new trend in political discourse, in which voters are exhorted to shut up and absent themselves from any discussion of these policies until after elections...as though the health of our representative government did not depend upon, rely upon as its very lifeblood, the principle of active citizen participation.

This sort of McCarthyistic garbage you just posted is why good Democrats leave DU, and it's why the right wing has a foothold in our party. It is a disgusting tactic, and it should be below you. I invite anyone to read my recs. I rec what I believe is important. Through the decades, the Democratic Party has often been the ONLY thing standing between Americans and the looting and perversion of our country into a corporate machine. The growing abdication of that role is not only important, I believe it is the single greatest threat our country faces right now. We need to save our party from this purchase and infiltration and rightward march, because our party may be the only thing left that can save US.

Come back with whatever you like. Your attempt to make this thread personal is garbage. It is McCarthyism, and it is shameless smearing and misrepresentation of everything I have ever written here.

You should be ashamed.