NOBODY HERE HATES OBAMA

[cherokeeprogressive]

265. When I saw that post, I saw it in a slightly different context.

Understand; I believe that poster tossed his own crust, applied the toppings, and cooked the pizza he got, and deservedly so.

Here's the thing about the POS post though where my opinion diverges with yours...

I saw that post as a direct response to a post claiming that President Obama was going to launch missiles into Syria within a couple days of 8/26 absent either a Security Council OR Congressional resolution authorizing it (which of course we now know didn't happen but at the time, given the rhetoric it was anyone's guess). So rather than seeing it as a post calling President Obama a POS, I saw the back and forth something more like this, and please allow me to paraphrase:

"So President Obama is launching missiles into Syria this Thursday..."

"Mark it down as the day Obama went from medicre to POS."

To me that isn't tantamount to calling President Obama a POS because the pivotal event hadn't (and never did) happened. Much like (to me anyway) saying "X should be strung up by his thumbs" can't really be construed as a threat, even though I've seen posts in that vein directed at one politician or another called exactly that here in GD.

You've seen surveys where the range of possible responses goes from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree". Lately, the rhetoric here has gone into orbit. "Strongly agree" has become "cheerlead" and "strongly disagree" has become "hate". When bush was in the White House, DUers were like metal shavings on top of a piece of paper and he was like a magnet. Every time he came close, DUers could be counted on to align in the same direction exactly as one would expect. Today, absent the magnet, that kind of alignment doesn't happen, and I noticed it not happening sometime in 2009. Everyone had their own pony. For me, it was gay rights, and I posted non-stop about it. For others, it was health care. For others it was war. For others it was jobs. We have been like metal shavings without a magnet to align us (that magnet being hatred for a politician) for five years. During that time, we've drifted so far apart that we've become like bad neighbors. "The water from your sprinkler is coming over my fence." "The leaves from your tree fall in my back yard when the wind blows." It's not going to end any time soon.

I don't see a lot of hate here. I don't think the word means what people think it means. I can't hate someone I don't know. If you've never kicked me in the balls, made me bleed, slept with my wife, or stolen money from me I can't hate you. Sure, there are lots of other things I could add to that list, but they'd all be PERSONAL things. You get the picture. I guess there are others for whom hatred is a more easily conjured emotion, and because they're able to feel it, they see it in others.