Snowden basically admits the "direct access" claim was bullshit.

[MADem]

115. That entire construct is just absurd.

There are people on this board with areas of interest that some might find OTT--whether it's a fact-free adoration of the government of Venezuela, or Castro, or an enthusiasm for a particular area of scientific study re: global warming and climate craziness, or feminist issues, or what-have-you. People have areas of interest--some can be a bit obsessive about them. Discussion boards accommodate that. You can (and perhaps should) choose to just NOT REPLY.

It doesn't even matter if--and I say if--she or anyone else on this board is "associated" with the administration. We've had lots of people here who do work for the Democratic party. Hell, I'm complicit, I've done some smiling and dialing and precinct walking in the past, and I even drive Democratic voters to the polls--I guess that makes me an "operative" of some sort.

There is NOTHING wrong with defending a Democrat on this damn Democratic message board--and if you think there is, well, maybe you took a wrong turn. The admins have given you tools so that, if you encounter someone you don't like, you won't be discommoded--you can ignore the poster and make her go pooof, you can hide her threads, but what you can't do is say that a Democrat talking up a Democrat on this board is a bad thing, and expect to go unchallenged. And when you DO say something like that, I say something stinks.

I don't give a flying fart if Prosense is Barack Obama himself. There's NOTHING wrong with the stuff she posts--she's not touting Christie or Rand Paul or Nader for President, now, is she?

If you don't agree with her views, refute what she puts up, or ignore/hide it, but don't ever impugn or malign the motives of a Democrat simply for touting the activities of a Democratic administration on a Democratic message board.

That's just fucked up.