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In reply to the discussion: The President has finally given up on trying to work with the Republicans. [View all]Crunchy Frog
(26,582 posts)with a high risk twin pregnancy, so I don't think I was doing alot of posting, though my memory on the matter is a bit fuzzy.
2004 I was very involved in the primary wars, my main concern being the nomination of someone I felt could beat a wartime Republican president, and then be able and willing to stand up to Republican obstructionism once in office. A major theme of the 2004 primary season was the tendency of many Dems to be weak and capitulate easily in the face of Republican forcefulness.
2000, this group didn't even exist, and I was not yet posting on the internets.
I don't recall specific posts of mine that I made years ago. Maybe your mind works that way, but mine does not. And I couldn't even say for sure that I posted anything that would specifically meet your criteria. If you're curious about what I was posting then, or what the general consensus of DU was at the time, then do your own damn homework and check out the archives for yourself.
The tendency of Republicans to become more and more extreme and more and more obstructionist is a very long term trend that was already evident to me during the Clinton presidency (and no, I don't have any posts from that time to back up my claims). Since it has been a steady, long term trend, it was utterly predictable that it would end up here. I don't tie it to the President's skin color. I feel that it would have been exactly the same for Hillary or for any other elected Democrat.
Believe me or not. I really don't give a flying fuck. I have no intention of chasing after posts that I made 5 or 9 years ago in order to assuage the skepticism of a total stranger on the internets. If you're interested enough, you can chase after them yourself.