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

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207. They Do Exactly That

They act like raging liberals on all the soft or undivisive issues but go crazy defending NSA...which is literally turning our country into an Orwellian nightmare only a deluded republican could support. I was out of the blue told if I don't oppose Snowden then I must be a racist or against LBGT rights! Can you believe that? And I've fought on the front lines and in government galls for those issues. For decades. These people seem like total frauds to me. They try to goad people into arguments by their snarky accusations if being a Ron Paul supporter too when they resemble Joe "The Rat" Lieberman to me. I do disagree with you though on one point. DU is a laboratory for progressive ideas and views and given the activist, involved nature if the people here the effect of their viewpoints is greater than on big, overridden sites where it's too much nonsense and few facts coupled with hyperbole muddling everything up. People come here for actual discussion. I know I do.