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

[ConservativeDemocrat]

114. I respectfully disagree...

I don't accuse the people who spit rhetorical bile and lies about President Obama of being racist. I largely think they're frustrated socialists and ex-communists.

The Democratic Party is a governing party. (One could very well argue that we're the only party capable of governance.) That means we have to deal with the world as it is, not as it exists in some ideologically pure imagination dreamed up in some ivory tower, a haze of weed, or both.

Most of the people who attack Obama here think that if only we didn't fight terrorists they'd just go away. And they're absolute incensed at his measured approach of using both the carrot and the occasional stick. They like to throw overwrought rhetoric around, but largely have no ideas on governing, and seem to be most pleased by gesture politics. In short, while they use all the tactics of the Tea Party, they're not.

I simply don't believe that the D.U. is important enough for anyone to waste time paying someone to troll it. Among other things, there are just too many volunteers.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community