The real reason a very loud few are posting hostility toward Barack Obama at DU:

[McCamy Taylor]

96. Some truth here. Some of the posts at DU are obviously astroturf.

But others are heartfelt alienation from the same people who hated Clinton, Carter, LBJ, JFK and every other Democrat president ever elected in this century including FDR. I am talking about the Marxist wing of the Democratic Party, which still exists and which will never ever be satisfied though it will continue to vote for the Democrat as the lesser of two evils.

Gore Vidal was a member of this side of the party. He said, basically, there is only one party, the money party. And yet, he continued to support the Democrats because if you don't get involved then you are part of the problem.

So, Drunken Irishmen, don't get all dualistic on us. Not everyone who criticizes Obama from the left is a GOP operative. I am about as far left as they come. I know that Obama is not Marx's wet-dream. No Democratic president ever will be. I'm pragmatic, because unions have been very good for my family, and the Dems take pretty good care of the unions. And Dems have given us Social Security and Medicare and some other good stuff like the Voting Rights Act. I like Obama as well as Clinton and LBJ and better than Carter and JFK whom I consider ineffectual.

But we can not expect every true leftist to be pragmatic every second of every day. Sometimes, we lefties have to give voice to our total disgust at a world in which American citizens care more about the fate of a cage of puppies left on the side of the road than human beings employed--and murdered---by Chevron in a third world country. It's really hard to love your country when your fellow countrymen think it is ok that they are getting fat and rich off the blood, sweat and tears of the third world. It is very, very hard to look in a mirror and say "I'm an ugly American and proud of it!"

The tears are for our brothers and sisters around the world who count less than a dog to most Americans. And for Americans, who do not understand that the fact that they care more for a dog than for their brothers and sisters around the world is killing them inside.