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In reply to the discussion: President Obama is the Best President in My Lifetime. [View all]MineralMan
(146,288 posts)In fact, I posted only one thing in this thread until you replied to it.
Why would the OP want to prevent comment? He wanted to state an opinion about President Obama. Almost 100 DU Recs later, the comment still stands at the top of the thread. Sometimes a guy just wants to post something positive about President Obama. I've done it, and so have many others. Sometimes a guy wants to post something negative about him. Many have done that, as well.
Since the post was just an opinion, I didn't see a lot of reason to join a discussion about that opinion. I share it, pretty much. So, I clicked the DU Rec button and posted my anticipation of some interesting replies. Does that form some sort of connection between me and the OP? Nope. I recognize the screen name, and have generally positive feelings about his past posts, although I doubt I could describe any of them without a search.
I have different feelings about other DUers, not so positive ones. That comes with the territory of a political discussion forum, since agreement isn't a requirement of membership.
I'm replying to you, because you replied to my short post. Now I will stop doing that. I have other things to do today. I don't see continuing this further as of any value to me.