Time to cut the crap. Obama Derangement Syndrome doesn't really exist.

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303. ODS is real.

It motivates the Republican party in general and the teabaggers in specific. I tried really hard to believe that it wasn't about race, but after all the insane, fucked-up shit that's gone on over the last few years, I'm forced to conclude that racism is at least a big chunk of it. It's true that there was some degree of CDS, but not to anywhere near the same degree that ODS afflicts today's bagger nuthouse. Yes, I remember the impeachment, the shut-down, and all that crazy shit. But I also remember how they managed to work with Clinton on things like welfare reform and "financial sector modernization"; today's crowd couldn't even do that, as they've repeatedly demonstrated by opposing Republican policies simply because it was Obama proposing them (most notably Obamacare, as we all know).

Therefore, to paint someone who attacks Obama from the left as suffering from ODS is to dismissively lump them in with the most retrograde, nasty, and frankly fascist elements of today's political environment. It is tantamount to an accusation of racism, since racism is probably at least 60% of real ODS; I similarly doubt that anyone would buy it if I called someone on here a Nazi, but then said, "oh, how could you think I was calling you a racist? I don't mean the racist kind of Nazi!"

Therefore, "ODS" is a particularly obnoxious charge to level at leftists who are disappointed in Obama. There's a world of difference between DU's "Obama haters" and the actual ODS crowd, and to pretend there isn't is not only dishonest, mean-spirited, and divisive, but insulting to our intelligence and our morals.

If the Obama defenders on here get sick of arguing their positions, I understand. Sometimes I think you're clearly and obviously right; other times I think your positions are completely incoherent. But please stop slinging around that "ODS" bullshit. Call us Obama-haters, call us wingnuts, call us moonbeams, call us "impractical".... but don't call us racists, and don't call us Nazis. That's exactly what you're doing, whether you mean to or not.