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In reply to the discussion: Harry Belafonte Says Obama Lacks "Moral Compass" [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)To summarize the negative responses:
lost his mind
Fool
short a bunch of bananas
hahaha!
"pull the lever for the mittster"
derangement from gonorrhea (hidden, at least)
idiot
Republican
And not a single one of the above says more than what I've conveyed. Eight hit and run posts, as the first posts on this thread, and none of them bothers with a point. A display of meaningless slander -- against a beautiful artist, a hero of the Civil Rights movement, a target of FBI harrassment, a man willing to take risks, a man who has never stopped fighting the good fight over the last 60 years time. And it's coming from posters who apparently imagine that their responses somehow support the president. Anyone exploring this site who walks into this thread will think it's juvenile sour-grapes rhetoric, at best. Many will decide it's an unpleasant place and go away, without returning.
So my question to the eight of you: What do you think you're doing?
One of the subsequent negative responses does stand out from the rest: ProSense arrives with a familiar, unrevised cut-pasta selectively listing (and exaggerating, or inventing) things Obama has done, a couple of which are true and good. This evades relevance, switches the discussion to Obama's supposed character rather than actions ("Belafonte would have people believe Obama is without a soul" - ridiculous!), and omits any and all of Belafonte's grounds for criticism. But by comparison to the above, it looks like the veritable act of a statesperson.
The swarm must stop!