This is why I support My President, 100%

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225. that's what I got from that

. . .with all of the unadulterated criticism that flies around here, much of it having NOTHING to do with the op, there's plenty of room for a post like this.

It's just that some folks see these types of compliment posts as an opportunity to just unload on the posters with personal attacks and ridicule. It's a despicable practice which always challenges my faith in, and regard for people. But hey, they were just making suggestions to be helpful . . . right.

Some folks ask me why I post positive stuff about the President and first family. It's because I recognize that there has been a net positive of good from this presidency and this administration which is deliberately obscured and ignored in the normal course of most advocacy.

We can forget that there are many, many issues where this president has responded exactly as we would hope he would and that many, many folks have experienced that first hand. Some folks bother to come here and express that, only to run up against others determined to stifle ANY positive opinions about this administration's initiatives and actions.

I can take the criticisms. they are a necessary part of advocacy and dissent. I can't tolerate the de-humanizing of Barack Obama or his family though. It's uncalled for, imo, and it's often lurid and positively obscene. The personal attacks on posters and supporters of the president are the worst, though. On a board where you'll regularly find some 80 to 90% of posts about the President critical of some policy or action, you'd think that folks here would provide some room and comity for something different and something which challenges the cynical conventional wisdom on this board.

What critics of positive posts really seem to want is to preserve this as an anti-establishment forum; albeit that there's an unavoidable dynamic having a Democrat in office that makes that pursuit an anti-Obama one. Kinda of sad to run into that on a forum where the first part of the moniker is 'Democratic.'