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

[dionysus]

206. not of DUers, no. it'd be a hell of a waste of money to pay people to post here. in mass media i

could see it. IMO, if a paid republican infiltrator was here, they would pretend to be a cartoonish caricature of an "extreme liberal", and post shit that make liberals look stupid. I bet rethug infiltrators here are pretty much adventurous freepers and such who like to stir up shit and start flame wars that can suck in otherwise rational posters.

For real DUers, I believe some of it is legit beef with what Snowden may have done regarding our international spying, or believing the idea that Greenwald is this looking for name recognition and a payday.

At the same time, some of it is pure knee jerk defense of the Administration in the never-ending DU Obama wars.

for the first 8 years of DU, it was easy because we were all united against bush; liberals, socialists, communist, conservative dems, you name it.

DU has been in a civil war since Obama got in, it seems to me.