So now, it's not just Obama, but the Democratic Party that's being bashed here?

[Stonepounder]

67. Well, I suppose I could block anything with 'obama.com' in the 'From' line.

In the last 5 days I have had 12 different emails asking for donations, all from BarackObama.com, but with a different person supposedly sending the email. Every now and then there is something from BarackObama.com that isn't asking me for money and actually says something that I am interested in.

It really isn't all that easy to figure out filtering rules. I can't just say "If the text contains "Suggested Amount"' dump it in the Spam folder

I put up a post here that was roundly condemned and this OP is also critical of what I said, whether the author even reead my post or not is irrelevant. I was frustrated and pissed about all the spam asking for money and the doom and gloom tone of so many of them - "If we don't raise $xxx by midnight tomorrow we're doomed". My frustration is more with the absolute fact that he who raises the most money usually wins than with the pleading.

Unfortunately, our system of government is totally and, perhaps, irrevocably broken. If you consider that one Representative has to 'represent' (on average) 1,000,000 people and a Senator can represent as many as 20,000,000 people it is just nuts. A single Senator can block any Presidential nominee for any position. And so on.

Will I work to elect Progressive candidates? Of course I will. Am I allowed to express frustration with how things are going? Well, apparently some people think that anyone who vents their frustration here is simply a Right Wing Troll and that the only way we can win elections is to never criticize anything the Democrats do.

Sorry. As Teddy Roosevelt said: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." I would modify that to change 'president' to 'party'. Just because I bitch and carp at times does not make me a Troll or a defeatist.