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

[dionysus]

201. i can only speak for myself. Snowden exposing NSA activities against American citizens can be called

whistleblowing (even though we were discussing the NSA doing this shit on DU 8 years ago, but hey, it's big in the news now, it's going to be discussed heavily). unfortunately, it's probably all legal somehow under the Patriot Act, which should be fixed right away. I don't think the Dems are doing anything heinous with this information, but it's information that shouldn't be collected or stored indefinitely unless there's a damn good reason and legitimate warrants have been obtained. I shudder at what a GOP administration would\could do with all that info.

If Snowden gave info to other countries about our intelligence gathering, that's a whole different ballgame to me, and very wrong.

I don't have much use for Greenwald myself, I see him as an opportunist, but I don't want him to trip and fall down some stairs or anything like that. maybe if I met him in person I'd like him, who knows...